Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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1	My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,	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 thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy 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 upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy 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: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy 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	That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth 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 look out of 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 behold a foolish young man,	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 passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of 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 dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity 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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