Proverbs 7:6

I looked. The LXX represents the woman as looking through the window of her house, scanning the passers-by for a likely victim. However, from the context it seems more natural to retain the reading of the Hebrew.

The writer chooses to use a concrete illustration rather than to speak in abstract generalities, and thus adds to the force of his instruction. He may have reported an actual case or related a parable.

Casement. The windows of ancient Oriental houses were not covered with glass, as those of our modern houses are, but with a latticework or trelliswork of wood that enabled the occupant of the house to see outside, while the vision from the outside was obscured. The arrangement worked somewhat like our Venetian blinds; it shut out the sunlight but permitted the breezes to pass through.