Proverbs 7:19
For the man is not in his house, || He has gone on a long journey.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
18Come, we are filled [with] love until the morning, || We delight ourselves in loves.
20He has taken a bag of money in his hand, || At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.”
Cross References
Matthew 20:11and having received [it], they were murmuring against the householder, saying,
Matthew 24:48And if that evil servant may say in his heart, My lord delays to come,
Luke 12:39And know this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief comes, he would have watched, and would not have permitted 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 →