Proverbs 7:19
For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of.
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
20He hath taken the bagge of money with hym, and wyll returne at the appointed solempne feast.
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And when they had receaued it, they murmured against the good man of the house,
Matthew 24:48But and yf that euyll seruaunt say in his heart, my Lorde wyll be long a commyng:
Luke 12:39This vnderstande, that yf the good man of the house knew what houre the thiefe woulde come, he woulde surely watche, and not suffer his house to be dygged 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 →