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Geneva Bible

Proverbs 7:7

And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Blindness;   Children;   Ignorance;   Lasciviousness;   Temptation;   Women;   Young Men;   Thompson Chain Reference - Simple, the;   Wisdom-Folly;   The Topic Concordance - Whoredom;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Children, Wicked;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fool, folly;   Fornication;   Men;   Wisdom;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Fool, Foolishness, Folly;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Evil Speaking;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Delilah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gestures;   Proverbs, Book of;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   Song of Solomon;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs, Book of;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Proverbs book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Discern;   Simple;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Chastity;   Judaism;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
I saw among the inexperienced,I noticed among the youths,a young man lacking sense.
Hebrew Names Version
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
King James Version
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
English Standard Version
and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,
New Century Version
and saw some foolish, young men. I noticed one of them had no wisdom.
New English Translation
and I saw among the naive— I discerned among the youths— a young man who lacked wisdom.
Amplified Bible
And among the naive [the inexperienced and gullible], I saw among the youths A young man lacking [good] sense,
New American Standard Bible
And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,
World English Bible
I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
Legacy Standard Bible
And I saw among the simple,And discerned among the sonsA young man lacking a heart of wisdom,
Berean Standard Bible
I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
Contemporary English Version
some foolish young men.
Complete Jewish Bible
when I saw among the young men there, among those who don't think for themselves, a young fellow devoid of all sense.
Darby Translation
and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,
Easy-to-Read Version
at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all.
George Lamsa Translation
And she beheld young men, she spied among the youths, and those who lacked understanding,
Good News Translation
and I saw many inexperienced young men, but noticed one foolish fellow in particular.
Lexham English Bible
And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking sense,
Literal Translation
and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the sons a young man lacking heart,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& behelde the simple people: & amonge other yonge folkes I spyed one yonge foole
American Standard Version
And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
Bible in Basic English
I saw among the young men one without sense,
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And I beheld among the thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
King James Version (1611)
And behelde among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a yong man void of vnderstanding,
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And behelde among the simple people and among the chyldren a young man voyde of wyt,
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
passing by the corner in the passages near her house,
English Revised Version
And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
I biholde a yong man coward,
Update Bible Version
And I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,
Webster's Bible Translation
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
New King James Version
And saw among the simple, I perceived among the youths, A young man devoid of understanding,
New Living Translation
I saw some naive young men, and one in particular who lacked common sense.
New Life Bible
And I saw among the child-like and among the young people a young man without wisdom and understanding.
New Revised Standard
and I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the youths, a young man without sense,
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And saw among the simple ones, discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,
Revised Standard Version
and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man without sense,
Young's Literal Translation
And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,

Contextual Overview

6 As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe, 7 And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding, 8 Who passed through the streete by her corner, and went toward her house, 9 In the twilight in the euening, when the night began to be blacke and darke. 10 And beholde, there met him a woman with an harlots behauiour, and subtill in heart. 11 (She is babling and loud: whose feete can not abide in her house. 12 Nowe she is without, nowe in the streetes, and lyeth in waite at euery corner) 13 So she caught him & kissed him and with an impudent face said vnto him, 14 I haue peace offerings: this day haue I payed my vowes. 15 Therefore came I forth to meete thee, that I might seeke thy face: and I haue found thee.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the simple: Proverbs 1:4, Proverbs 1:22, Proverbs 1:32, Proverbs 8:5, Proverbs 14:15, Proverbs 14:18, Proverbs 19:25, Proverbs 22:3, Proverbs 27:12, Psalms 19:7, Psalms 119:130, Romans 16:18, Romans 16:19

the youths: Heb. the sons

void: Proverbs 6:32, Proverbs 9:4, Proverbs 9:16, Proverbs 10:13, Proverbs 12:11, Proverbs 19:2, Proverbs 24:30, Jeremiah 4:22, Matthew 15:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 34:7 - wrought 2 Samuel 13:12 - folly Psalms 107:17 - Fools Psalms 119:9 - shall

Cross-References

Genesis 6:18
But with thee will I establish my couenant, and thou shalt goe into the Arke, thou, and thy sonnes, and thy wife, and thy sonnes wiues with thee.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said vnto Noah, Enter thou and all thine house into the Arke: for thee haue I seene righteous before me in this age.
Genesis 7:13
In the selfe same day entred Noah with Shem, and Ham and Iapheth, the sonnes of Noah, and Noahs wife, and the three wiues of his sonnes with them into the Arke.
Genesis 7:15
For they came to Noah into ye Arke, two and two, of all flesh wherein is ye breath of life.
Proverbs 22:3
A prudent man seeth the plague, and hideth himselfe: but the foolish goe on still, and are punished.
Matthew 24:38
For as in the dayes before the flood, they did eate and drinke, marrie, and giue in mariage, vnto the day that Noe entred into the Arke,
Luke 17:27
They ate, they dranke, they married wiues, and gaue in marriage vnto the day that Noe went into the Arke: and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Hebrews 6:18
That by two immutable things, wherein it is vnpossible that God should lye, we might haue strong consolation, which haue our refuge to lay holde vpon that hope that is set before vs,
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noe being warned of God of the things which were as yet not seene, mooued with reuerence, prepared the Arke to the sauing of his housholde, through the which Arke hee condemned the world, and was made heire of the righteousnes, which is by faith.
1 Peter 3:20
Which were in time passed disobedient, when once the long suffering of God abode in the dayes of Noe, while the Arke was preparing, wherein fewe, that is, eight soules were saued in the water.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 natural and civil; have seen but little of the world, and know less of religion, and are easily imposed upon and carried away with the company they keep; such simple foolish creatures are the followers of antichrist; see 2 Timothy 3:6;

I discerned among the youths; or "children" d; at least in understanding, the children Jezebel, Revelation 2:23;

a young man void of understanding; or "wanting a heart" e; to know and fear the Lord, and not in the way to learn and improve; but in company like himself, and so in a fair way to continue foolish and simple, and destitute of the true understanding of things, and exposed to the snares delusions of such that lie in wait to deceive.

d בבנים "inter filios", Pagninus, c. e חסר לב "carentem corde", Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus "destitutum corde", Schultens.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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.


 
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