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Proverbs 6:35

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6:35 He will not consider 1  any compensation; 2 

he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation. 3 

1 tn Heb “lift up the face of,” meaning “regard.”

2 tn The word rendered “compensation” is כֹּפֶר (cofer); it is essentially a ransom price, a sum to be paid to deliver another from debt, bondage, or crime. The husband cannot accept payment as a ransom for a life, since what has happened cannot be undone so easily.

3 tn BDB 1005 s.v. שֹׁחַד suggests that this term means “hush money” or “bribe” (cf. NIV, NRSV, NLT). C. H. Toy takes it as legal compensation (Proverbs [ICC], 142).



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