Proverbs 7:19

For mine husband is not in his house; he is gone (away) a full long way.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

In Context

18Come thou, be we filled with touching of teats, and use we embracings that be coveted (or and with desired embraces); till the day begin to be clear.

20He took with him a bag of money; he shall turn again in to his house in the day of [the] full moon. (He took a bag of money with him; and he shall not return to his house until the day of the full moon.)

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Cross References

Matthew 20:11and in the taking, they grudged against the husbandman, (and upon receiving it, they grumbled against the farmer,)

Matthew 24:48But if that evil servant say in his heart, My lord tarrieth to come,

Luke 12:39And know ye this thing, for if an husbandman knew, in what hour the thief would come, soothly he should wake, and not suffer his house to be (under)mined, (or truly he would be on watch, and not allow his house to be undermined).

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 →

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