Proverbs 7:6

For, in the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked out;

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

In Context

5That thou mayest be kept, from the woman that is a stranger, from the female unknown, who, with her speeches, doth flatter.

7And saw among the simple ones, discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense;

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Cross References

Genesis 26:8And it came to pass when the days had lengthened out to him there, that Abimelech king of the Philistines, looked out through the lattice of a window,—and he beheld and lo! Isaac—laughing with Rebekah his wife.

2 Samuel 6:16Now it so came about that, when the ark of Yahweh entered the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter, looked out through the window, and saw King David, leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised 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 →

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