Proverbs 7:20
He took with him a bag of money. He will return to his house on the day of the full moon.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
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 my husband is not in his house. He has gone away on a very long journey.
21She enmeshed him with many words, and she drew him forward with the flattery of her lips.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13will have slept with another man, and if her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and if it cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not caught in the shameful act,
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 →