Proverbs 7:6
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,
5 that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.
For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,
8 crossing the street near her corner, strolling down the road to her house,
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For at the window of my house I looked through the lattice.
- KJV
- For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
- 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;
- DARBY
- For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,
- BLB
- For at the window of my house I have looked through my lattice,
- ÅB
- For jeg så engang ut av vinduet på mitt hus, gjennom mitt gitter,
- OTB
- For ved vinduet i mitt hus så jeg ut gjennom gitteret,
- B1930
- For jeg så engang ut av vinduet på mitt hus, gjennem mitt gitter,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Genesis 26:8
When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.
Read in contextJudges 5:28
Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
Read in context2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
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