Proverbs 7:18
Come, let us be inebriated in abundance, and let us delight in the embraces of desire, until the day begins to dawn.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
In Context
17I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, aloe, and cinnamon.
19For my husband is not in his house. He has gone away on a very long journey.
Cross References
Exodus 20:14You shall not commit adultery.
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen waters are more soothing, and secret bread is more pleasant.”
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 →