This woman’s husband is a shepherd. While he is still with her, she asks him where he is heading with the flock. She wants to know where he is with the sheep that afternoon, where he is resting with the sheep later. It is not without reason that she asks this. She wants to know the place so that she can then be with her husband again. If she would not know where he has gone, she may not find him. Or she might end up with the flocks of his friends. Then she cannot be with him in freedom and confidence. If he is with his friends, she would have to remain at a distance.
7 Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you pasture your flock, where you make it lie down at noon; for why should I be like one who veils herself beside the flocks of your companions?