Proverbs 7:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

Proverbs 7:19 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-23)

Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

18-20. There is no fear of discovery.