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Proverbs 7:19

My husband has gone on a business trip.

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

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

6 One day I was looking out my window 7 at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all. 8 He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house. 9 The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark. 10 Suddenly, there she was in front of him, dressed like a prostitute. She had plans for him. 11 She was a wild and rebellious woman who would not stay at home. 12 She walked the streets, always looking for someone to trap. 13 She grabbed the young man and kissed him. Without shame, she looked him in the eye and said, 14 "I offered a fellowship offering today. I gave what I promised to give, 15 and I still have plenty of food left. So I came out to find you, and here you are!

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
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of every kind of clean animal. And get one pair (one male and one female) of every other animal on the earth. Lead all these animals into the boat with you.
Genesis 7:3
Get seven pairs (seven males and seven females) of all the birds. This will allow all these animals to continue living on the earth after the other animals are destroyed.
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old at the time the rains came.
Genesis 7:9
went into the boat with Noah. These animals went into the boat in groups of two, male and female, just as God commanded.
Job 12:15
If he holds back the rain, the earth will dry up. If he lets the rain loose, it will flood the land.
Jeremiah 3:23
It was foolish to worship idols on the hills. All the loud parties on the mountains were wrong. Surely the salvation of Israel comes from the Lord our God.
2 Peter 3:6
Then the world was flooded and destroyed with water.

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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