He will accept no compensation, nor be satisfied with a payoff of any size.
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.
- BSB He will not be appeased by any ransom, or persuaded by lavish 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.
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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 in place, before the hills, I was born;
- Isa 2:9Man is brought low, and mankind is humbled; therefore don’t forgive them.
- Prov 4:3For I was a son to my father, tender and an only child in the sight of my mother.
- Prov 7:13So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:
- Mal 2:9“Therefore I have also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according to the way you have not kept my ways, but have had respect for persons in the law.
- 2 Kgs 5:1Now Naaman, captain of the army of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.
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