Proverbs 7:5-7
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
5 That they may keep you from a stranger,
from the foreign woman with her smooth words.(A)
6 For at the window of my house,
through my lattice I looked out[a]
7 And I saw among the naive,
I observed among the young men,
a youth with no sense,
Footnotes
- 7:6–7 I looked out…I saw…: the perspective is unusual. The narrator looks through a window upon the drama in the street.
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