Proverbs 7:7 (BSB)

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

From Proverbs 7. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 7:7

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-23: Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 7:7: 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...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 7:7: simple--as in Pro 1:4. void of, &c.--(Compare Pro 6:32).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 7:6-7: Pro 7:6-7 How necessary it is for the youth to guard himself by the help of wisdom against the enticements of the wanton woman, the author now shows by a reference to his own observation. 6 For through the window of my house, From behind the lattice I looked out; 7 Then saw I among the simple ones, Discerned among the young people, a youth devoid of understanding.