Proverbs 7:19
For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
18Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.
20he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And on receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
Matthew 24:48But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,
Luke 12:39But this know, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be dug through.
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 →