Proverbs 7 · Verse 6

Proverbs 7:6

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

Proverbs 7:6, King James Version

Proverbs 7:6 in other translations

BSB	For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
WEB	For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.
ASV	For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
YLT	For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,
DARBY	For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
BBE	Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
Webster	For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

What does Proverbs 7:6 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. For--or, "Since," introducing an example to illustrate the warning, which, whether a narrative or a parable, is equally pertinent. window--or, "opening" looked--literally, "watched earnestly" (Jud 5:28). casement--or, "lattice."

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary

Verse 6 I looked through my casement - The casement is a small aperture in a large window, or a window opening on hinges. Here it means the lattice, for they had no glass windows in the East. And the latticed windows produced a double advantage 1. Making the apartments sufficiently private; and 2. Admitting fresh air to keep them cool.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 7:6-27

Here is an affecting example of the danger of youthful lusts. It is a history or a parable of the most instructive kind. Will any one dare to venture on temptations that lead to impurity, after Solomon has set before his eyes in so lively and plain a manner, the danger of even going near them? Then is he as the man who would dance on the edge of a lofty rock, when he has just seen another fall headlong from the same place. The misery of self-ruined sinners began in disregard to God's blessed commands. We ought daily to pray that we may be kept from running into temptation, else we invite the enemies of our souls to spread snares for us. Ever avoid the neighbourhood of vice. Beware of sins which are said to be pleasant sins. They are the more dangerous, because they most easily gain the heart, and close it against repentance. Do nothing till thou hast well considered the end of it. Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Proverbs 7:6 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּ֭יkiforH3588

בְּחַלּ֣וֹןbe.cha.Lonat [the] window ofH2474

בֵּיתִ֑יbei.Tihouse myH1004

בְּעַ֖דbe.'AdthroughH1157

אֶשְׁנַבִּ֣י'esh.na.Bilattice myH822

נִשְׁקָֽפְתִּי\׃nish.Ka.fe.tiI looked downH8259

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Proverbs 7:6

Genesis 26:8
And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.
Judges 5:28
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
2 Samuel 6:16
And as the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

at the.
Ge 26:8; 2Sa 6:16
casement.{Eshnav,} rather a lattice, so called from the Arabic {shanaba,} " to be cool," because of its use in keeping the apartments cool.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

Proverbs 7:5
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
Proverbs 7:6
For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
Proverbs 7:7
And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

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Proverbs 7:6 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Porque mirando yo por la ventana de mi casa, por mi celosía,
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	Car, à la fenêtre de ma maison, je regardais à travers mon treillis,
German Elberfelder 1871	Denn an dem Fenster meines Hauses schaute ich durch mein Gitter hinaus;
Latin Clementine Vulgate	De fenestra enim domus meæ per cancellos prospexi,