Proverbes 7:7

Louis Segond

J'aperçus parmi les stupides, Je remarquai parmi les jeunes gens un garçon dépourvu de sens.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Je vis entre les sots, et je consid�rai entre les jeunes gens un jeune homme d�pourvu de sens,

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Je remarquai parmi les insens�s, et je consid�rai parmi les jeunes gens, un jeune homme d�pourvu de sens,

Darby's French Translation
j'aper�us parmi les jeunes gens, un jeune homme d�pourvu de sens,

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

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.