Proverbs 7:1-9 Parallel Bible Translations

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	SLT Smith's Literal Translation	ESV English Standard Version	NIV New International Version
1	My son, watch my words, and thou shalt hide my commands with thee.	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	Watch my commands, and live; and my law as the pupil 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	Bind them upon thy fingers, and write them upon the tablet 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 to wisdom, Thou my sister; and thou shalt call knowledge to understanding:	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 watch thyself from the strange woman, from the stranger making smooth her sayings.	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 in the window of my house I looked forth through my 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 shall see among the simple, I shall perceive among the sons a youth wanting heart,	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 in the street near her corner; and he will step 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 twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night, in the thick 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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