Proverbs 7:19
New International Version
My husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

New Living Translation
for my husband is not home. He’s away on a long trip.

English Standard Version
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

Berean Standard Bible
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

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

New King James Version
For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey;

New American Standard Bible
“For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey.

NASB 1995
“For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;

NASB 1977
“For the man is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;

Legacy Standard Bible
For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a journey far away;

Amplified Bible
“For my husband is not at home. He has gone on a long journey;

Christian Standard Bible
My husband isn’t home; he went on a long journey.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My husband isn’t home; he went on a long journey.

American Standard Version
For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For my husband has not been in the house; he is gone on the road far away.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,

Contemporary English Version
My husband is traveling, and he's far away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
because my husband's not home. He has gone on a long trip.

Good News Translation
My husband isn't at home. He's on a long trip.

International Standard Version
because my husband isn't home. He left on a long trip.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For my husband is not at home, He is gone a long journey;

Literal Standard Version
For the man is not in his house, | He has gone on a long journey.

Majority Standard Bible
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

New American Bible
For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey;

NET Bible
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.

New Revised Standard Version
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

New Heart English Bible
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.

Webster's Bible Translation
For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

World English Bible
For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

Young's Literal Translation
For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

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Context
Warnings about the Adulteress
18Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses! 19For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. 20He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”…

Cross References
Proverbs 7:18
Come, let us take our fill of love till morning. Let us delight in loving caresses!

Proverbs 7:20
He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full."


Treasury of Scripture

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

the good man

Matthew 20:11
And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

Matthew 24:43
But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

Luke 12:39
And this know, that if the goodman of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered his house to be broken through.

he

Matthew 24:48
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

Mark 13:34-36
For the Son of man is as a man taking a far journey, who left his house, and gave authority to his servants, and to every man his work, and commanded the porter to watch…

Luke 12:45,46
But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken; …

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Proverbs 7
1. Solomon persuades to a sincere and kind familiarity with wisdom
6. In an example of his own experience he shows
10. the cunning of a harlot
22. and the desperate simplicity of a young wanton
24. He detests such wickedness














(19) The goodman.--Literally, the man; she does not even call him "my husband."

At the day appointed.--Rather, at the full moon, a fortnight later, as now it would seem to have been new moon, when the nights are dark.

Verse 19. - The temptress proceeds to encourage the youth by showing that there is no fear of interruption or detection. The goodman is not at home. "Goodman" is an old word meaning "master of the house," or husband (Matthew 20:11, etc.); but the Hebrew is simply "the man," which is probably a contemptuous way of speaking of the husband whom she was outraging. He is gone a long journey; he has gone to a place at a great distance hence. This fact might assure her lover that he was safe from her husband's jealousy (Proverbs 6:34); but she has further encouragement to offer.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
For
כִּ֤י (kî)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

my husband
הָאִ֣ישׁ (hā·’îš)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

is not
אֵ֣ין (’ên)
Adverb
Strong's 369: A non-entity, a negative particle

at home;
בְּבֵית֑וֹ (bə·ḇê·ṯōw)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

he has gone
הָ֝לַ֗ךְ (hā·laḵ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

on a long
מֵרָחֽוֹק׃ (mê·rā·ḥō·wq)
Preposition-m | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7350: Remote, of place, time, precious

journey.
בְּדֶ֣רֶךְ (bə·ḏe·reḵ)
Preposition-b | Noun - common singular
Strong's 1870: A road, a course of life, mode of action


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