Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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1 My son! Keep my sayings, || And lay up my commands with 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 commands, and live, || And 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 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 cry to understanding, “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 To preserve you from a strange woman, || From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth. 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 a window of my house, || I have looked out through my casement, 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 among the simple ones, || I discern among the sons, || A young man lacking understanding, 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 on in the street, near her corner, || And the way [to] her house he steps, 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 day, || In the darkness of night and blackness. 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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