Proverbs 7:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Bible Comments

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

Ver. 6. I looked through my casement.] Little did this young fool think whose eye was upon him, less did he heed the all-seeing eye of Heaven. Solomon was observing his subjects' carriages, and found a miscarriage. Magistrates, as they have many eyes upon them (whence also they have their name in the Hebrew tongue), a so they are to have their eyes upon many, watching when other men sleep, and observing what other men slight. The poets feign that Jupiter overlooks the world, and that Somnus or sleep, dared never come near him. "A king that sitteth in the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes." Pro 20:8

a Nagid a Neged, quod in eam omnes conieciant oculos.

Proverbs 7:6

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