Proverbs Chapter 6 verse 28 Holy Bible
Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
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Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
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Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
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Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
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Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?
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Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 28. - Can one go upon hot coals, etc.? The repeated question is introduced by gin, "if," here equivalent to the Latin an, used in double questions, as in Genesis 24:21; Exodus 17:7; Judges 9:2, etc. Go; i.e. walk upon hot coals (Hebrew, al-haggekalim); literally, upon the hot coals. The Hebrew gakheleth is coals thoroughly ignited, as in Leviticus 16:12 and Proverbs 25:22; different from pekham of Proverbs 26:21, which is "a black coal," or, as Gesenius explains, charcoal unkindled. Be burned; Hebrew, tikkaveynah; i.e. be burned or scorched so as to leave a mark by burning, as in Isaiah 43:2; this being the force of the verb kavah. The flames of lust will certainly be visited with punishment, and with the stings of conscience. Job, speaking on this very subject, says a deviation from the paths of virtue "is a fire that consumeth to destruction." And to him who gives way to adultery it may be said, in the words of Horace, though with a different application from that in which they were used by that poet, "incedis per ignes suppositos cineri doloso." "You are walking over fire that lies hidden under deceitful ashes" (Gejerus).
