Proverbs 7:6 Commentary and Bible Study

Now Solomon begins this long parable to the end of the chapter. ‘For at the window of my house I looked through my casement’, or my lattice as you might more properly say today. I looked through that window. Incidentally, this is a strange window because it is a window through which Solomon can see the entire event which now takes place. It is a window through which he can see round corners, he can see in the dark and he can see into rooms of a distant house to observe what is going on. You can see we are in the language of a parable. In other words, such a window as this is not Solomon's literal window; it is a graphic way of describing the view of God. Only God can see like that. Solomon speaks in the first person: For at the window of my house I looked through my lattice - and what is he going to see? He is going to see a scene played out which will describe our own vulnerability to sin.