Proverbs 7:19 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 7:19

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

KJV

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ASV

For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:

WEB

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.

YLT

For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

DBT

For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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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 20:11
And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,
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.
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;

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), and, for aught that appears, lived in reputation among her neighbours, not suspected of any such wickedness, and yet, in the twilight of the evening, when her husband was abroad, abominably impudent. She is here described, 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is therefore with good reason taken notice of, to Sarah's praise, that she spoke respectfully of her husband, calling him lord. She pleases herself with this that he is not at home, and therefore she is melancholy if she have not some company, and therefore whatever company she has she may be free with them, for she is from under his eye, and he shall never know.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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