6:34

This verse does not contain parallel parts that are similar in meaning. However, both lines function together to explain the husband’s feeling toward the adultery.

6:34a

For: This word introduces the reason for the adulterer’s fate described in 6:33. The adulterer suffers this fate because of the husband’s jealousy and his resulting lack of mercy.

jealousy enrages a husband: This clause implies that when a husband finds out that someone has been having an affair with his wife, his jealousy will cause him to be extremely angry. Other ways to translate this clause are:

Jealousy makes a husband very angry (New Century Version)
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the woman’s jealous husband will be furious (New Living Translation (2004))

6:34b

and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance: In Hebrew, the phrase show no mercy is literally “not relent/spare.” It indicates that the husband will not hold back from punishing the adulterer. Another way to translate this clause is:

he shows no restraint when he takes revenge (New Revised Standard Version)

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