Proverbs 7:20
He took with him a bag of money: he mill return home the day of the full moon.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 at home, he is gone a very long journey.
21She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13Shall have slept with another man, and her husband cannot discover it, but the adultery is secret, and cannot be proved by witnesses, because she was not found in the adultery:
Proverbs 9:17Stolen waters are sweeter, and hid den 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 →