Proverbs 7:20
He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”
Berean Standard Bible
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 has gone on a long journey.
21With her great persuasion she entices him; with her flattering lips she lures him.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
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 →