He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish gifts.
Parallel translations
- WEB He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.
- KJV He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
- NKJV He will accept no recompense, Nor will he be appeased though you give many gifts.
- NASB He will not accept any settlement, Nor will he be satisfied though you make it a large gift.
- NLT He will accept no compensation, nor be satisfied with a payoff of any size.
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Quick answer
No payment or gift will appease the wronged husband's anger. Some consequences cannot be bought off.
Overview
The offended husband will accept no ransom and remain unsatisfied by any bribe, however large. This closes the adultery warning by stressing that the damage cannot be undone with money. The whole section presses home that sexual sin carries costs no compensation can erase.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Prov 8:25Before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth,
- Isa 2:9So mankind is brought low, and man is humbled—do not forgive them!
- Prov 4:3When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
- Prov 7:13She seizes him and kisses him; she brazenly says to him:
- Mal 2:9“So I in turn have made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have shown partiality in matters of the law.”
- 2 Kgs 5:1Now Naaman, the commander of the army of the king of Aram, was a great man in his master’s sight and highly regarded, for through him the LORD had given victory to Aram. And he was a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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