Proverbs 7:18

18 Come on! Let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms.

Proverbs 7:18 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:18

Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning
Taking him by the hand, and pulling him along, she says, "come"; let us not stand here in the streets, but let us go within, and after supper to bed; and there enjoy ourselves, till "inebriated" with love, as the word F23 signifies: so the poet F24 speaks of "ebrios ocellos", "eyes drunk", that is, with love; and so continue till the morning light, the night being the fittest season for those works of darkness: this expresses the insatiableness of her lust; let us solace ourselves with loves;
mutual love, not lawful, but criminal; more properly lusts; denoting the abundance of it, and the pleasure promised in it, which is very short lived, and bitterness in the end.


FOOTNOTES:

F23 (hwrn) "inebriemur", Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Piscator, Gejerus, Michaelis, Schultens.
F24 Catullus de Acme, Ep. 43. c. 11.

Proverbs 7:18 In-Context

16 I've covered my bed with sheets of colored linen from Egypt.
17 I've perfumed it with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 Come on! Let's make love all night long. We'll be happy in each other's arms.
19 My husband isn't at home. He's on a long trip.
20 He took plenty of money with him and won't be back for two weeks."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.