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Proverbs 7:19

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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;
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

6As I stood at the window of my house looking out through the shutters, Watching the mindless crowd stroll by, I spotted a young man without any sense Arriving at the corner of the street where she lived, then turning up the path to her house. It was dusk, the evening coming on, the darkness thickening into night. Just then, a woman met him— she'd been lying in wait for him, dressed to seduce him. Brazen and brash she was, restless and roaming, never at home, Walking the streets, loitering in the mall, hanging out at every corner in town. 13She threw her arms around him and kissed him, boldly took his arm and said, "I've got all the makings for a feast— today I made my offerings, my vows are all paid, So now I've come to find you, hoping to catch sight of your face—and here you are! I've spread fresh, clean sheets on my bed, colorful imported linens. My bed is aromatic with spices and exotic fragrances. Come, let's make love all night, spend the night in ecstatic lovemaking! My husband's not home; he's away on business, and he won't be back for a month." 21Soon she has him eating out of her hand, bewitched by her honeyed speech. Before you know it, he's trotting behind her, like a calf led to the butcher shop, Like a stag lured into ambush and then shot with an arrow, Like a bird flying into a net not knowing that its flying life is over.

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
"Take on board with you seven pairs of every clean animal, a male and a female; one pair of every unclean animal, a male and a female; and seven pairs of every kind of bird, a male and a female, to insure their survival on Earth. In just seven days I will dump rain on Earth for forty days and forty nights. I'll make a clean sweep of everything that I've made."
Genesis 7:6
Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters covered the Earth. Noah and his wife and sons and their wives boarded the ship to escape the flood. Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah. In seven days the floodwaters came.
Jeremiah 3:22
"We're here! We've come back to you. You're our own true God ! All that popular religion was a cheap lie, duped crowds buying up the latest in gods. We're back! Back to our true God , the salvation of Israel. The Fraud picked us clean, swindled us of what our ancestors bequeathed us, Gypped us out of our inheritance— God-blessed flocks and God-given children. We made our bed and now lie in it, all tangled up in the dirty sheets of dishonor. All because we sinned against our God , we and our fathers and mothers. From the time we took our first steps, said our first words, we've been rebels, disobeying the voice of our God ."

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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