Proverbs 7:19
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
Berean Standard Bible
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 till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!
20He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”
Cross References
Matthew 20:11On receiving their pay, they began to grumble against the landowner.
Matthew 24:48But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
Luke 12:39But understand this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
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 →