Proverbs 7:1-10 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 My son, keep my words and treasure my commands within 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 Guard my commands and live, and my instruction like the pupil of your eyes. 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 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 wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call out to understanding, “Kinsman,” 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 to guard you from the strange woman, from a foreign woman who has made smooth her 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 have looked 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 I have looked among the simple, and discerned among the sons a young man lacking heart, 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 by on the street near her corner, and the way of her house he steps in— 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 of the day, in the pupil of night and darkness. 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.
10 And behold, a woman to meet him, in the garment of a prostitute and guarded of heart. And behold, the woman meets him, dressed as a prostitute, wily of heart. Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.
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