Proverbes 7:6

Louis Segond

J'étais à la fenêtre de ma maison, Et je regardais à travers mon treillis.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Comme je regardais � la fen�tre de ma maison par mes treillis,

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Comme je regardais par la fen�tre de ma maison, � travers mes treillis,

Darby's French Translation
� la fen�tre de ma maison, je regardais � travers mon treillis, et je vis parmi les simples,

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

at the: Genesis 26:8, 2 Samuel 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.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For at the window of my house,.... This is either an historical account of a matter of fact known to Solomon, or a parable made by him, setting forth the cunning artifices of an harlot, the folly and weakness of a young man ensnared, and the ruin he is brought into by her. As Solomon was a public magistrate, he is here represented as a private observer of the behaviour of his subjects, as sitting in his palace at a window, at the small windows of it, as the Targum, where he could see and not be seen himself; near to which was an harlot's house; for they generally get about the courts of princes, where they make their prey;

I looked through my casement; or "lattice" c; the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions: understand this of the harlot looking out of the window of her house and through the casement, when she spied a young man, as follows; but this agrees not with the Hebrew text, which carries it to Solomon; though a greater than he may be designed, the omniscient God, who looks through the windows and lattice of heaven, and beholds all the actions of the children of men; those that are most private, and done in the dark; and Christ the Son of God, whose "eyes [are] like unto aflame of fire", to look through all the darkness of Popery, represented by the Thyatirian church state; into all the intrigues of the Romish harlot, and behold all the follies of those that commit fornication with her, Revelation 2:18.

c בעד אשנבי "per cancellum meum", Montanus; "per cancellos", Tigurine version, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Casement - The latticed opening of an Eastern house, overlooking the street (compare Judges 5:28).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 7:6. 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.