Proverbs 7:20
He has taken a bag of money in his hand, || At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.”
Literal Standard Version
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 has gone on a long journey.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13and a man has lain with her [with] the seed [from] intercourse, and it has been hid from the eyes of her husband, and concealed, and she has been defiled, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught,
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen waters are sweet, || And hidden bread 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 →