Proverbs 7:7 ASV

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Proverbs 7:6-27

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. Proverbs 7:10. Literally, “a woman, the attire of a harlot,” with no connecting word between, as though the woman were nothing but such a dress. Subtil, “guarded.” Wordsworth renders “her heart is like a walled fortress.” Proverbs 7:11. Stubborn, rather “boisterous, ungovernable.” Proverbs 7:14.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Proverbs 7:1-27

Chapter 7He 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 live; and my law as the pupil of your eye. Bind them upon your fingers, write them on the table of your heart. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, and from the stranger who flatters with her words (... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Proverbs 7:1-27

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. Proverbs 7:2 . Keep my law, as the apple of thine eye; a most precious, beautiful, and tender sense. The idea is often repeated, as in Deuteronomy 32:10. Psalms 17:8. Proverbs 7:3 . Bind them upon thy fingers, as the phylacteries. Deuteronomy 6:8. Love them, have them always at hand,... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 7:7

Proverbs 7:7A young man void of understanding.A youth void of understandingSolomon was pre-eminently a student of character. His forte lay in the direction of moral philosophy, in the sense of the philosophy of morals.I. The special peril of great cities. Human nature remains the same in every age. The descriptions of the temptations that assailed the youth of Jerusalem and Tyre answers precisely to what we see in our own day. Therefore the counsels and warnings of the ancient sage are as... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 7:7

Pro 7:7 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 drawn any way a by a twined thread with a wet finger; fatuellus, such as whom it is no hard matter to cozen and collude with. a Cor eius in vitium flecti. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Proverbs 7:7

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 read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:1-27

A FURTHER EXHORTATION TO FILIAL OBEDIENCE AND THE CULTIVATION OF WISDOM, AND TO WALK IN THE PATHS OF PURITY, Proverbs 7:1-27. Such is the importance of the subject discussed in the latter part of the last chapter, as also in the second and fifth chapters, that the teacher continues, with increasing earnestness, to warn his pupils against the seductive wiles of dissolute women. Therefore, after an exhortation, such as we have before met with, to cleave lovingly to wisdom as a preservative... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Proverbs 7:7

7. And beheld The Septuagint takes these verbs in the third person singular feminine; she looked, she beheld, etc. The idea is, that the wanton looked forth in order to observe. Simple ones The inexperienced, untaught; as opposed to that culture, discipline, and self restraint which the teacher is inculcating. Youths Hebrew, sons. A young man void of understanding Literally, a boy without a heart; that is, without, or deficient in, intelligence, not, perhaps, naturally so, but as... read more