Proverbs 7:19
For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
20He took with him a bag of money: he mill return home the day of the full moon.
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And receiving it they murmured against the master of the house,
Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming:
Luke 12:39But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open.
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 →