Proverbs 7:19
For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
Bible in Basic English
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 pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
20He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house,
Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant says in his heart, My lord is a long time in coming;
Luke 12:39But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house 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 →