Young Man Passes the Woman's Doorway at DuskBible World
7:6Proverbs 7:6
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
For at the window of his house the watcher looked through his casement upon what follows. It opens a vivid, truthful account of the strange woman and the young man void of understanding, setting forth vice and its results as momentary pleasures followed by long years of bitter remorse. The woman is the character of a class of women rather than one particular woman.
The verse belongs to the instruction and reproof in the first seven chapters of Proverbs, which urge the hearer to choose wisdom, the path of life, rather than follow a flatterer, for rejecting that instruction and breaking spiritual law leads to spiritual disease and death. It is plain, direct teaching that sexual sin is fatal to the health of soul and body, given to make such sin appear exceeding sinful. Its plain speaking is free from coarseness and never renders vice attractive, but paints vice and its dreadful consequences in their true colors.
The passage is connected with the danger of sexual vice and warns against sexual temptation, showing a young man drawn into the adulteress's snare. Young men especially are to take warning in time and escape the grievous snares thick about their feet. Young people need to be warned about the moral dangers they may face, since silence and ignorance can leave them vulnerable to a life of shame. The account shows how greed for rent can support enticing a young man away from virtue.
For at the window of his house the watcher looked through his casement upon what follows. It opens a vivid, truthful account of the strange woman and the young man void of understanding, setting forth vice and its results as momentary pleasures followed by long years of bitter remorse. The woman is the character of a class of women rather than one particular woman.
The verse belongs to the instruction and reproof in the first seven chapters of Proverbs, which urge the hearer to choose wisdom, the path of life, rather than follow a flatterer, for rejecting that instruction and breaking spiritual law leads to spiritual disease and death. It is plain, direct teaching that sexual sin is fatal to the health of soul and body, given to make such sin appear exceeding sinful. Its plain speaking is free from coarseness and never renders vice attractive, but paints vice and its dreadful consequences in their true colors.
The passage is connected with the danger of sexual vice and warns against sexual temptation, showing a young man drawn into the adulteress's snare. Young men especially are to take warning in time and escape the grievous snares thick about their feet. Young people need to be warned about the moral dangers they may face, since silence and ignorance can leave them vulnerable to a life of shame. The account shows how greed for rent can support enticing a young man away from virtue.