Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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1	My child, keep my words and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.	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 so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.	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 forearm; 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 understanding a 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 that they may keep you from the adulterous woman, from the loose woman who flatters you with 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 through my window lattice I looked out	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 saw among the naive--I discerned among the youths--a young man who lacked wisdom.	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	He was passing by the street near her corner, making his way along the road to 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 twilight, the evening, in the dark 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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