Proverbs 7:6
One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
In Context
7I saw some young men who did not have good sense. Among them was a man who was very foolish.
Cross References
Genesis 26:8When Isaac had been there a long time, one day Abimelech, the king of the Philistine people-group, looked down from a window in his palace and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
2 Samuel 6:16While they were carrying the sacred chest into the city, David’s wife Michal, who was Saul’s daughter, looked out the window of her house. She saw King David leaping and dancing to honor Yahweh. So she was disgusted with him.
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 →