Proverbs 7:6

6 At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.

Proverbs 7:6 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
English Standard Version (ESV)
6 For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,
New Living Translation (NLT)
6 While I was at the window of my house, looking through the curtain,
The Message Bible (MSG)
6 As I stood at the window of my house looking out through the shutters,
American Standard Version (ASV)
6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
6 From a window in my house I looked through my screen.
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
6 At the window of my house I looked through my lattice.
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
6 I stood at the window of my house. I looked out through it.

Proverbs 7:6 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 7:6

For at the window of my house
This is either an historical account of a matter of fact known to Solomon, or a parable made by him, setting forth the cunning artifices of an harlot, the folly and weakness of a young man ensnared, and the ruin he is brought into by her. As Solomon was a public magistrate, he is here represented as a private observer of the behaviour of his subjects, as sitting in his palace at a window, at the small windows of it, as the Targum, where he could see and not be seen himself; near to which was an harlot's house; for they generally get about the courts of princes, where they make their prey; I looked through my casement;
or "lattice" F3; the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions: understand this of the harlot looking out of the window of her house and through the casement, when she spied a young man, as follows; but this agrees not with the Hebrew text, which carries it to Solomon; though a greater than he may be designed, the omniscient God, who looks through the windows and lattice of heaven, and beholds all the actions of the children of men; those that are most private, and done in the dark; and Christ the Son of God, whose "eyes [are] like unto aflame of fire", to look through all the darkness of Popery, represented by the Thyatirian church state; into all the intrigues of the Romish harlot, and behold all the follies of those that commit fornication with her, ( Revelation 2:18 ) .


FOOTNOTES:

F3 (ybnva deb) "per cancellum meum", Montanus; "per cancellos", Tigurine version, Michaelis.

Proverbs 7:6 In-Context

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”
5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.
6 At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.
7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.
8 He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house
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