Proverbs 7:20
He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”
World Messianic Bible
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 my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.
21With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.
Cross References
Numbers 5:13and a man lies with her carnally, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband and this is kept concealed, and she is defiled, there is no witness against her, and she isn’t taken in the act;
Proverbs 9:17“Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret 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 →