Proverbs 7:19
For mine husband is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
18Come, let vs take our fill of loue vntill the morning: let vs take our pleasure in daliance.
20He hath taken with him a bagge of siluer, and will come home at the day appointed.
Cross References
Matthew 20:11And when they had receiued it, they murmured against the master of the house,
Matthew 24:48But if that euil seruant shall say in his heart, My master doth deferre his comming,
Luke 12:39Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged 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 →