28Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?


In Context

25 Don't lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

27 Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

28 Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

29 So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

30 Men don't despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

Proverbs 6:28 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:28Can a man walk on hot coals without his feet being scorched?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:28Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:28Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:28Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:28Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:28Can one go on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:28Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?