Proverbs 7:18
Come with me; let us enjoy having sex until tomorrow morning. Let’s enjoy making love.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
In Context
17I have sprinkled sweet-smelling perfumes on my bed— myrrh and aloes and cinnamon.
19My husband is not at home; he has gone away on a long journey.
Cross References
Exodus 20:14Do not ◄commit adultery/have sex with anyone other than your spouse►.
Proverbs 9:17“ Just as water which you have stolen tastes very good and food that you eat by yourself tastes the best, if you have sex secretly with someone to whom you are not married, you will enjoy it very much.”
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 →