Proverbs 7:19
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Proverbs 7:19 in other translations
| BSB | For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey. |
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| WEB | For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey. |
| ASV | For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey: |
| YLT | For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey. |
| DARBY | For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey; |
| BBE | For the master of the house is away on a long journey: |
| Webster | For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long journey: |
What does Proverbs 7:19 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 7:18-20
18-20. There is no fear of discovery.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27
Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same…
Proverbs 7:19 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 7:19
- Matthew 20:11
And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
- 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; The lord of that servant will come in a day when he looketh not for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in sunder, and will appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.
- 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. Watch ye therefore: for ye know not when the master of the house cometh, at even, or at midnight, or at the cockcrowing, or in the morning: Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
- 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.
- Matthew 24:48
But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
- 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.
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Context
- Proverbs 7:18
Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.
- Proverbs 7:19
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
- Proverbs 7:20
He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.
Proverbs 7:19 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Porque el marido no está en casa, hase ido á un largo viaje: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | car mon mari n’est pas à la maison, il s’en est allé loin en voyage; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Denn der Mann ist nicht zu Hause, er ist auf eine weite Reise gegangen; |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non est enim vir in domo sua: abiit via longissima: |