Proverbs 30:9 also links poverty and theft, showing the temptation that drives the thief here.

Proverbs 8:21 promises wealth to the wise, contrasting with the thief who loses all his goods.

Exodus 22:1 prescribes 4 or 5 times restitution for stolen livestock—a legal precedent that Proverbs heightens to sevenfold.

In 2 Samuel 12:6, David demands fourfold restitution for the stolen lamb—a narrative example of multiple restitution similar to sevenfold.

Genesis 4:15 also uses 'sevenfold' for vengeance, echoing the proportional restitution principle here for the thief.

Jeremiah 2:26 compares Israel's shame to a thief caught, mirroring the disgrace implied here for the caught thief.

Song of Solomon 8:7 uses the same phrase 'all the wealth of his house' to show love's incomparable value, contrasting with the thief's forfeiture.

Job 20:18 says the wicked must restore what he took and will not enjoy it—echoing the necessity of restitution with a warning of futility.

Matthew 18:25 pictures a debtor being sold with all he has to pay—parallel to the thief giving all his substance, both involve total loss.

Zacchaeus in Luke 19:8 voluntarily restores fourfold any defrauded amount—a NT example of restitution, though less than sevenfold.