Proverbs 6:35

He will not consider ¹  any compensation; ²  he will not be willing, even if you multiply the compensation. ³ 

2Ki 5:1; Pr 4:3; Pr 7:13; Pr 8:25; Isa 2:9; Mal 2:9

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).