Proverbs 7:19

For the man is not in his house, he is gone on a journey a great way off:

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

In Context

18Come, let us indulge in love until the morning: let us delight ourselves with dalliances.

20The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.”

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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 →

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