Proverbs 7:6–9

Condemnation of Fornication and Adultery.

V. 6. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, through the lattice-work found on Oriental windows which face the street, v. 7. and beheld among the simple ones, those inexperienced in matters of this life, in the ways of men, I discerned among the youths, the youngsters, those in the dangerous age when they resent instruction, a young man void of understanding, clearly lacking in judgment, v. 8. passing through the street near her corner, where harlots were accustomed to linger for the purpose of accosting; and he went the way to her house, the very slow sauntering, strolling, or pacing being a sign of imprudence, v. 9. in the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night, the heaping of expressions fitting the actions of the young man as belonging to the works of darkness.