Proverbs 7:20

New International Reader's Version

He took his bag full of money. He won’t be home for several days.”

Cross References

Genesis 42:35

They began emptying their sacks. There in each man’s sack was his bag of money! When they and their father saw the money bags, they were scared to death.

2 Chronicles 2:4

Now I’m about to build a temple. The Name of the Lord my God will be there. I’ll set the temple apart for him. Sweet-smelling incense will be burned in front of him there. The holy bread will be set out at regular times. Burnt offerings will be sacrificed there every morning and evening. They will be sacrificed every Sabbath day. They will be sacrificed at every New Moon feast. And they will be sacrificed at every yearly appointed feast of the Lord our God. That’s a law for Israel that will last for all time to come.

Proverbs 7:19

My husband isn’t home. He’s gone on a long journey.

Proverbs 9:17

She says, “Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret tastes good!”

Numbers 5:13

Suppose another man has sex with her. And suppose this is hidden from her husband. No one knows she is not “clean.” So there is no witness against her. And she has not been caught in the act.