Proverbs 6:30 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy his soul when he is hungry:

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy his soul when he is hungry;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Men do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry;

American Standard Version (1901)

Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:

Common English Bible

People don’t despise a thief if he steals to fill his starving stomach.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Not so great is the fault when someone has stolen. For he steals so as to satisfy a hungry soul.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The fault is not so great when a man hath stolen: for he stealeth to fill his hungry soul:

Proverbs 6:30 Cross References

Job 38:39

Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lioness? Or satisfy the appetite of the young lions,

Proverbs 30:9

Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor, and steal, And use profanely the name of my God.

Leviticus 6:5

or any thing about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even restore it in full, and shall add the fifth part more thereto: unto him to whom it appertaineth shall he give it, in the day of his being found guilty.