Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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1	My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts 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	Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil 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 it with your fingers; write it on the tablets 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 prudence your friend.	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	So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens 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 I gaze from the window of my house, through the 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 see little ones. I consider a frenzied youth,	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	who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that 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	He steps into shadows, as day becomes evening, into the darkness and gloom of the 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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