Proverbs 7:19
For the man is not at home. He has gone a long journey.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning. Let us solace ourselves with love.
20He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And when they received it, they murmured against the house-ruler,
Matthew 24:48But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late coming,
Luke 12:39But know this, that if the house-ruler had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:7-24
The Foolish Young Man; Enticements of the Adulteress. 6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now… Read the whole commentary →