Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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	ISV Intl. Standard Version	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	My son, guard what I say and treasure my commands.	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 commands and you'll live. Guard my teaching as you do your eyesight.	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	Strap them to your fingers and engrave 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're my sister!\| and call understanding your close relative,	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 they can keep you from an adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her seductive 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 from a window in my house I peered through the lattice work,	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 noticed among the naïve— that is, I discerned among the youths— a senseless 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	Proceeding down the street near her corner, he makes his way toward 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	at twilight, during the evening, even during the darkest part 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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