For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey.
Come, let us take our fill of love until morning; let us delight ourselves with love.
He took a bag of money with him; he will not come home until full moon.”
Adulterous wife who receives strangers instead of her husband!
And when they received it, they grumbled against the landowner,
But understand this: if the owner of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.
But if that wicked slave says to himself, ‘My master is delayed,’
“But know this: if the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.