The man who commits adultery lacks sense, destroying his own soul—identifying the adulterer as one who has forfeited wisdom and understanding in pursuit of transgression that demolishes his own being. This verse reveals that adultery is not a clever pursuit of pleasure but a form of suicide, a destruction of the self that surpasses all other transgressions in its self-annihilating nature. The language echoes wisdom theology where foolishness represents a kind of spiritual suicide, a turning away from the life-giving order established by the fear of the LORD. By calling this the destruction of his own soul rather than merely his reputation or household, the verse locates the damage at the deepest level of personal being.

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