VERSE STUDY • KJV

Proverbs 6:28

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

Read it in 5 translations

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take thee with her eyelids.

26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?

28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour’s wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent.

30 [Men] do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

31 But [if] he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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