Proverbs 7:6
For at a window of my house, || I have looked out through my casement,
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
In Context
5To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
7And I see among the simple ones, || I discern among the sons, || A young man lacking understanding,
Cross References
Genesis 26:8And it comes to pass, when the days have been prolonged to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looks through the window, and sees, and behold, Isaac is playing with his wife Rebekah.
2 Samuel 6:16and it has come to pass, the Ark of YHWH has come into the City of David, and Michal daughter of Saul has looked through the window and sees King David moving and dancing before YHWH, and she despises him in her heart.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 7:2-6
The Word of God Recommended. 1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words. These verses are an introduction to his warning against fleshly lusts, much the same with that, ch. vi.… Read the whole commentary →