Proverbs 7:20
He is carrying a wallet filled with money, and he will not return until the middle of this month.”
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
In Context
19My husband is not at home; he has gone away on a long journey.
21So she persuaded him by her enticing/tempting words. She allured him by her smooth/sweet talk.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13but neither he nor anyone else knows if it is true or not, because no one saw her doing that.
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 →