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Proverbs 7:19

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

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Blindness;   Harlot (Prostitute);   Hypocrisy;   Ignorance;   Lasciviousness;   Temptation;   Women;   Young Men;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Men;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Delilah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Goodman;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Goodman;   Proverbs, Book of;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Goodman;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Goodman;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
King James Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
English Standard Version
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;
New Century Version
My husband is not home; he has gone on a long trip.
New English Translation
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a journey of some distance.
Amplified Bible
"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.
World English Bible
For my husband isn't at home. He has gone on a long journey.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For mine husbande is not at home: he is gone a iourney farre off.
Legacy Standard Bible
For my husband is not at home,He has gone on a journey far away;
Berean Standard Bible
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
Contemporary English Version
My husband is traveling, and he's far away.
Complete Jewish Bible
My husband isn't at home, he's gone on a long trip;
Darby Translation
For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
Easy-to-Read Version
My husband has gone on a business trip.
George Lamsa Translation
For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey:
Good News Translation
My husband isn't at home. He's on a long trip.
Lexham English Bible
For there is no man in his home; he has gone on a long journey.
Literal Translation
For my husband is not at his house; he is going in the way, far away.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of.
American Standard Version
For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:
Bible in Basic English
For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For my husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;
King James Version (1611)
For the good-man is not at home, he is gone a long iourney.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For the good man is not at home, he is gone farre of.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For my husband is not at home, but is gone on a long journey,
English Revised Version
For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For myn hosebonde is not in his hows; he is goon a ful long weie.
Update Bible Version
For the man is not 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:
New King James Version
For 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.
New Life Bible
For my husband is not at home. He has gone on a long trip.
New Revised Standard
For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For the husband is not in his house, he hath gone on a journey afar;
Douay-Rheims Bible
For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.
Revised Standard Version
For my husband is not 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.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"For my husband is not at home, He has gone on a long journey;

Contextual Overview

6At the window of my houseI looked through my lattice. 7I saw among the inexperienced,I noticed among the youths,a young man lacking sense. 8Crossing the street near her corner,he strolled down the road to her house 9at twilight, in the evening,in the dark of the night. 10A woman came to meet himdressed like a prostitute,having a hidden agenda. 11She is loud and defiant;her feet do not stay at home. 12Now in the street, now in the squares,she lurks at every corner. 13She grabs him and kisses him;she brazenly says to him, 14“I’ve made fellowship offerings;today I’ve fulfilled my vows. 15So I came out to meet you,to search for you, and I’ve found you.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the goodman: Matthew 20:11, Matthew 24:43, Luke 12:39

he: Matthew 24:48, Mark 13:34-36, Luke 12:45, Luke 12:46

Reciprocal: Numbers 5:13 - General Psalms 50:18 - hast been partaker

Cross-References

Genesis 7:2
You are to take with you seven pairs, a male and its female, of all the clean animals, and two of the animals that are not clean, a male and its female,
Genesis 7:3
and seven pairs, male and female, of the birds of the sky—in order to keep offspring alive throughout the earth.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was six hundred years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.
Genesis 7:9
two of each, male and female, came to Noah and entered the ark, just as God had commanded him.
Job 12:15
When he withholds water, everything dries up,and when he releases it, it destroys the land.
Jeremiah 3:23
Surely, falsehood comes from the hills,commotion from the mountains,but the salvation of Israelis only in the Lord our God.
2 Peter 3:6
Through these the world of that time perished when it was flooded.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For the good man [is] not at home,.... Or, "for the man is not in his house" y. She does not say, "my man", or "my husband"; though the Septuagint. Syriac, and Arabic versions so render it; lest this should throw some difficulty in the young man's way, or remind herself of her conjugal obligation; but "the man", by way of contempt, as disowning him for her husband, or, however, having no regard for him in comparison of others: and this she says to encourage the young man to go with her; since her husband was gone, and show as alone, and mistress of the house;

he is gone a long journey; or, "a way afar off" z; into a distant country, and therefore need not fears return of him that night; she was prepared to answer all objections. The good man of the house may be understood of Christ, who is gone into a far country, to heaven, to take a kingdom to himself, and return, Luke 19:12; and in the mean while the church of Rome, who professes herself the true church and spouse of Christ, is committing fornication with the kings of the earth; and has set up another in his room and stead, whom she calls Christ's vicar on earth; and flatters herself and her lovers with impunity, from his distance from her, and his vicar having a right to do as he pleases.

y כי אין האיש בביתו "quia non est vir in domo suo", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, c. z בדרך מוחוק "in via longinqua", Pagninus, Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Mercerus, Cocceius, Gejerus, Schultens "in via a longinquo", Montanus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The reference to the husband is probably a blind. The use of the word “goodman” is due to the wish of the English translators to give a colloquial character to this part of their Version. The Hebrew is merely “the man.” A touch of scorn may be noticed in the form of speech: not “my husband,” but simply “the man.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:19. For the good man — Literally, "For the man is not in his house."


 
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