Proverbs 7:19
For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
In Context
18Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
20A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'
Cross References
Matthew 20:11and having received [it], they were murmuring against the householder, saying,
Matthew 24:48'And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,
Luke 12:39'And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken 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 →