Proverbs 7:7
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
American King James Version (AKJV)
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
American Standard Version (ASV)
And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
Basic English Translation (BBE)
I saw among the young men one without sense,
Webster's Revision
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
World English Bible
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
English Revised Version (ERV)
And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Clarke's Proverbs 7:7 Bible Commentary
Among the simple ones - The inexperienced, inconsiderate young men.
A young man void of understanding - בעל ראשאהץ חסר לב, "destitute of a heart." He had not wisdom to discern the evil intended; nor courage to resist the flatteries of the seducer.
Barnes's Proverbs 7:7 Bible Commentary
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 to sin, but placing himself in the way of it at a time when the pure in heart would seek their home. There is a certain symbolic meaning in the picture of the gathering gloom Proverbs 7:9. Night is falling over the young man's life as the shadows deepen.
