Verse 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 being uninstructed, not having been trained to self-restraint. See note on Proverbs 1:2, word, musar. With the Hebrews the heart was the seat of intelligence as well as of the affections. The word נער , ( na’har,) boy, is about equivalent to our word youth, or young man, being used much in the same way; sometimes even of those of full age. So a military officer addresses his command as boys. So the foreman of a body of workmen.
The term is often applied to servants of any age. A like usage obtains in various languages.
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