Proverbs 7:19
For the good-man is not at home; He is gone a long journey;
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with caresses.
20He hath taken a purse of money with him; At the day of the full moon he will return.”
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And when they had received it, they murmured against the householder,
Matthew 24:48But if the bad servant say in his heart, My lord is tarrying long;
Luke 12:39And be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have suffered 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 →