Parallel Bible results for "Proverbs 7:1-11"

Proverbs 7:1-11

Common English Bible CEB

1 My son, keep my words; store up my commands within you.

2 Keep my commands and live, and my instruction like the pupil of your eye.

3 Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

4 Say to wisdom, "You are my sister"; call understanding "friend,"

5 so she might guard you against the mysterious woman, from the foreign woman who flatters you.

6 When from the window of my house, from behind the screen, I gazed down,

7 I looked among the naive young men and noticed among the youth, one who had no sense.

8 He was crossing the street at her corner and walked down the path to her house

9 in the early evening, at the onset of night and darkness.

10 All of a sudden a woman approaches him, dressed like a prostitute and with a cunning mind.

11 She is noisy and defiant; her feet don't stay long in her own house.

New International Version NIV

1 My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.

2 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.

4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and to insight, “You are my relative.”

5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.

6 At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.

7 I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.

8 He was going down the street near her corner, walking along in the direction of her house

9 at twilight, as the day was fading, as the dark of night set in.

10 Then out came a woman to meet him, dressed like a prostitute and with crafty intent.

11 (She is unruly and defiant, her feet never stay at home;