Charles Ellicott Commentary Proverbs 7:19

"For the man is not at home; He is gone a long journey:" — Proverbs 7:19 (ASV)

The goodman.— Literally, the man; she does not even call him “my husband.”

At the day appointed. —Rather, at the full moon, two weeks later, as it would seem it was new moon then, when the nights are dark.