Proverbs 7:20
The bag of money hath he taken with him, by the day of the new-moon festival only will he come home.”
Leeser Tanakh
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 the man is not in his house, he is gone on a journey a great way off:
21She seduced him by the abundance of her reasoning: by the flattery of her lips she misguided him.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hidden from the eyes of her husband, because she hath been secretly defiled; and there be no witness against her, and she have not been detected and in the fact;
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen waters are sweet, and bread of secrecy is pleasant.”
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 →