Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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	AMP Amplified Bible	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you [so they are readily available to guide you].	My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you;	My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
2	Keep my commandments and live, And keep my teaching and law as the apple of your eye.	keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;	Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
3	Bind them [securely] on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.	bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.	Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4	Say to [skillful and godly] wisdom, “You are my sister,” And regard understanding and intelligent insight as your intimate friends;	Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call insight your intimate friend,	Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”
5	That they may keep you from the immoral woman, From the foreigner [who does not observe God’s laws and] who flatters with her [smooth] words.	to keep you from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words.	They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.
6	For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice.	For at the window of my house I have looked out through my lattice,	At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.
7	And among the naive [the inexperienced and gullible], I saw among the youths A young man lacking [good] sense,	and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,	I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.
8	Passing through the street near her corner; And he took the path to her house	passing along the street near her corner, taking the road to her house	He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house
9	In the twilight, in the evening; In the black and dark night.	in the twilight, in the evening, at the time of night and darkness.	at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.
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