Verse Proverbs 7:7. Among the simple ones] The inexperienced, inconsiderate young men.
A young man void of understanding] חסר לב chasar leb, "destitute of a heart." He had not wisdom to discern the evil intended; nor courage to resist the flatteries of the seducer.
SIMPLE - In the bad sense of the word (Proverbs 1:22 note); “open” to all impressions of evil, empty-headed and empty-hearted; lounging near the house of ill-repute, not as yet deliberately purposing...
CHAPTER 7 The entire chapter is a continuation of the strange woman and the warning against her. The Word and the law of the Lord will keep the obedient son from her. If Solomon had obeyed the Word of...
The longest and most elaborate description of the adulteress, the fate of her victim, and the value of wisdom as a safeguard. PROVERBS 7:1. General advice to the young man to observe the commandment...
SIMPLE. See note on Proverbs 1:4. YOUTHS. sons. UNDERSTANDING. Hebrew heart. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Subject), App-6, for understanding. Compare Proverbs 6:32....
_simple_ See Proverbs 1:4; Proverbs 1:22, notes....
CHAPTER 7 TEXT Proverbs 7:1-12 1. My son, keep my words, And lay up my commandments with thee. 2. Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye. 3. Bind them upon thy fin...
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, AND BEHELD AMONG THE SIMPLE ONES, I DISCERNED AMONG THE YOUTHS, A YOUNG MAN VOID OF UNDERSTANDING...
THE BAD WOMAN A picture drawn from life of the enticing of a young man by a wicked woman....
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 7 PROVERBS CHAPTER S 7 TO 9 The last, and greatest, of Solomon’s lessons, begins here. Since chapter 1, we have read the words that Solomon t...
Solomon saw a young man who was ‘simple’. (See my note on Proverbs 1:4.) This young man had not learned to be wise. He was in danger, because he was not wise. It was easy to tempt him. He did not thin...
AMONG THE SIMPLE ONES. — He was not yet vicious, only empty-headed....
וָ אֵ֤רֶא בַ † פְּתָאיִ֗ם אָ֘בִ֤ינָה בַ...
CHAPTER 8 REALISM IN MORAL TEACHING "I looked forth through my lattice; and I beheld." Proverbs 7:6 THE three Chapter s which close the introduction of our book (7-9) present a lively and picturesqu...
This is a second parental exhortation, and consists of a warning against the allurements of the strange woman. A graphic picture of the seduction of a youth void of understanding is given. The woman w...
_Ones. Not in age, but prudence. (Menochius)_...
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Passing through the street near her corne...
_SIMPLETONS ATTRACT SEDUCERS_ ‘At the window of my house I looked through my casement, and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding.’ Proverbs 7:...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 1 THROUGH 9. There are two very distinct parts in this book. The first nine Chapter s, which give the great general principles; and the proverbs, properly so...
AND BEHELD AMONG THE SIMPLE ONES,.... Such as are easily persuaded and drawn into sin; simple and foolish in things moral and spiritual, and not arrived to any ripeness of understanding in things natu...
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, Ver. 7. _Among the simple ones._] The word signifieth such a one as may be soon persuaded, easily dr...
_For I looked through my casement_ Hebrew, בעד אשׁנבי, _per fenestellam meam, my little window_, or _lattice_, rather. For “in Palestine they had no glass to their windows: they closed them with latti...
and beheld among the simple ones, those inexperienced in matters of this life, in the ways of men, I discerned among the youths, the youngsters, those in the dangerous age when they resent instruction...
CONDEMNATION OF FORNICATION AND ADULTERY. On account of the terrible devastation wrought by sins of adultery and by every gratification of sexual desires outside of holy wedlock, affecting not only t...
THE YOUTHS: _ Heb._ the sons...
6-27 Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after...
Whose strength and heat made him most subject to lustful impressions, and who wanted judgment and experience as well as grace to keep him from such courses....
Proverbs 7:7 saw H7200 (H8799) simple H6612 perceived H995 (H8799) youths H1121 man H5288 devoid H2
A DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE SEDUCTION OF THE NAIVE YOUNG MAN BY THE ‘STRANGE WOMAN' (PROVERBS 7:6). This account divides up into three, what the father observes of the naive young man's actions (Pro...
CONTENTS: Warning against all approaches to the sin of adultery. CHARACTERS: Solomon, his son. CONCLUSION: The Word of God, if used for a defense and armor, will keep one from the strange woman and...
Proverbs 7:1. _Keep my words lay up my commandments._ These terms being of constant occurrence in the didactic scriptures, will be found explained in the beginning of the hundred and nineteenth psalm....
_A young man void of understanding._ A YOUTH VOID OF UNDERSTANDING Solomon was pre-eminently a student of character. His forte lay in the direction of moral philosophy, in the sense of the philosoph...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 7:6 The SIMPLE and the YOUNG stumble into adultery by putting themselves in the wrong place (v. Proverbs 7:8
CRITICAL NOTES. PROVERBS 7:7. SIMPLE, “inexperienced.” PROVERBS 7:8. WENT, “moved leisurely, sauntered.” PROVERBS 7:9. IN THE BLACK AND DARK NIGHT, literally, “in the apple,” or “pupil” of the night...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 7:1 13. _Thirteenth admonitory discourse, _containing a warning against adultery, treated under a different aspect from previous exhortations, and strengthened by an example. In...
He continues his exhortation to the son in chapter 7. Still talking about these women that are the wrong sort. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. Keep my commandments, and li...
Jeremiah 4:22; Matthew 15:16; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 1:32; Proverbs