Proverbs 7:20
He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
In Context
19For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
21With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13By taking as her lover another man, and keeps it secret so that her husband has no knowledge of it, and there is no witness against her, and she is not taken in the act;
Proverbs 9:17Drink taken without right is sweet, and food in secret is pleasing.
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 →