Proverbs 7:16
I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
In Context
15Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.
17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
Cross References
Proverbs 31:22She hath made for herself clothing of tapestry: fine linen, and purple is her covering.
Song of Solomon 3:7Behold threescore valiant ones of the most valiant of Israel, surrounded the bed of Solomon?
Ezekiel 27:7Fine broidered linen from Egypt was woven for thy sail, to be spread on thy mast: blue and purple from the islands of Elisa, were made thy covering.
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 →