Proverbs 7:19
For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:
ASV Byzantine Text
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.
20He hath taken a bag of money with him; He will come home at the full moon.
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,
Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth to come;
Luke 12:39But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not have left his house to be broken 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 →