Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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	SEP Brenton Septuagint Translation	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments. My son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:	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 keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.	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	And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine 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 that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;	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 strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering 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 she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,	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	passing by the corner in the passages near her house,	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	and speaking, in the dark of the evening,	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	when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:	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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