Proverbs 6:28

Revised Standard Version

Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched?

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Can a man walk on burning coalswithout scorching his feet?

Hebrew Names Version
Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

King James Version
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

English Standard Version
Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?

New Century Version
and you cannot walk on hot coals without burning your feet.

New English Translation
Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Amplified Bible
Or can a man walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched?

New American Standard Bible
Or can a person walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched?

World English Bible
Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

Geneva Bible (1587)
Or can a man go vpon coales, and his feete not be burnt?

Legacy Standard Bible
Or can a man walk on hot coalsAnd his feet not be scorched?

Berean Standard Bible
Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Contemporary English Version
if you step on hot coals, you burn your feet.

Complete Jewish Bible
Can a man walk [barefoot] on hot coals without scorching his feet?

Darby Translation
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

Easy-to-Read Version
If you step on one, your feet will be burned.

George Lamsa Translation
Can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

Good News Translation

Lexham English Bible
If a man walks upon the hot coals, will his feet not be burned?

Literal Translation
Or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be burned?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Or can one go vpon hote coales, and his fete not be hurte?

American Standard Version
Or can one walk upon hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

Bible in Basic English
Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

King James Version (1611)
Can one goe vpon hote coales, and his feete not be burnt?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Or can one go vpon hotte coales, and his feete not be brent?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet?

English Revised Version
Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
ethir go on colis, and hise feet be not brent?

Update Bible Version
Or can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be scorched?

Webster's Bible Translation
Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

New King James Version
Can one walk on hot coals, And his feet not be seared?

New Living Translation
Can he walk on hot coals and not blister his feet?

New Life Bible
Can a man walk on hot coals, and his feet not be burned?

New Revised Standard
Or can one walk on hot coals without scorching the feet?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Or can a man walk upon hot coals, and, his feet, not be burned?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Or can he walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be burnt?

Young's Literal Translation
Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Or can a man walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched?

Contextual Overview

²⁰ My son, keep your father's commandment, and forsake not your mother's teaching. ²¹ Bind them upon your heart always; tie them about your neck. ²² When you walk, they will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. ²³ For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, ²⁴ to preserve you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adventuress. ²⁵ Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; ²⁶ for a harlot may be hired for a loaf of bread, but an adulteress stalks a man's very life. ²⁷ Can a man carry fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? ²⁸ Or can one walk upon hot coals and his feet not be scorched? ²⁹ So is he who goes in to his neighbor's wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.

Bible Verse Review
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Reciprocal: Proverbs 5:8 - General

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?] He cannot; if he sets his feet upon them, and continues them ever so little on them, they will be burnt, and much more if he walks upon them; and so if a man gives way to the burning lusts of his heart after a whorish woman, and commits adultery with her, though not with frequency, he will not escape punishment in one shape or another; and much more if he continues such a lewd course of life; such practices are extremely dangerous q, and there is no possibility of being unhurt by them: see Job 31:12; the lake of fire and brimstone, everlasting burnings, will be the portion of those that commit fornication with the whore of Rome, Revelation 14:10.

q "Periculosae plenum opus aleae tractas: et incedis per ignes suppositos cineri doloso", Horat. Carmin. l. 2. Ode. 1.