Proverbs 7:16
I have spread my bed with sheets, 1 And I have covered it with double tapestry from Egypt. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.
In Context
15Therefore I came forth to meet thee, desiring thy face; 1 And I have found thee. 1
17I have sprinkled my couch with saffron, 1 And my house with cinnamon. 1
Cross References
Proverbs 31:22She makes for her husband clothes of double texture, 1 And garments for herself of fine linen and scarlet. 1
Song of Solomon 3:7Behold Solomon’s bed; 1 Sixty mighty men of the mighty ones of Israel are round about it. 1
Ezekiel 27:7Fine linen with embroidery from Egypt supplied thy couch, to put honor upon thee, and to clothe thee with blue and purple from the isles of Elishah; and they became thy coverings.
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 →