Proverbs 7:2-7 in English

² Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

² keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

³ And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine heart.

⁴ Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

⁵ that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering 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,

⁷ passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

² Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷ And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷ And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

² keep my commandments, and you shall live; and keep my words as the pupils of your eyes.

³ And bind them on your fingers, and write them on the table of your heart.

⁴ Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;

⁵ that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering 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,

⁷ passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

² Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the table of thine heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

² Obey my commands, and as a result you will live a good life. Consider the things that I teach you to be very precious; guard them, just like you protect your eyes.

³ Tie my commands around your fingers in order that they will remind you to obey them. Always keep them in mind MET.

⁴ Love wisdom like you love your sister. Understand what is wise, and let that be as dear to you as members of your family.

⁵ If you are wise and if you understand what is wise PRS, you will not sleep with an immoral woman; you will not listen to a woman who tries to entice you to sleep with her by what she says.

⁶ One day, I was standing at the window inside my house, and I looked outside.

⁷ I saw some young men who did not have good sense. Among them was a man who was very foolish.

² keep my commandments, and you shall live; and keep my words as the pupils of your eyes.

³ And bind them on your fingers, and write them on the table of your heart.

⁴ Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;

⁵ that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you with flattering 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,

⁷ passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw amongst the simple ones. I discerned amongst the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;

³ Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.

⁴ Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:

⁵ So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.

⁶ Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,

⁷ I saw among the young men one without sense,

² Keep my commandments, and live; and my teaching, as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the tablet of thy heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence thy kinswoman:

⁵ that they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,

⁷ and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:

³ Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.

⁴ Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,

⁵ That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.

⁶ For I look out of the window of my house through the lattice,

⁷ And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,

² Do what I tell you and you will live. Observe my teachings, valuing them as your main focus in life.

³ Tie them to your fingers; write them in your mind.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You're my sister,” and call insight your best friend.

⁵ They will protect you from the immoral woman, from the prostitute with her seductive words.

⁶ One time I looked through the lattice of the window in my house,

⁷ and I saw among the immature young men one who had no sense at all.

² Keepe my commandements, and thou shalt liue, and mine instruction as the apple of thine eyes.

³ Binde them vpon thy fingers, and write them vpon the table of thine heart.

⁴ Say vnto wisedome, Thou art my sister: and call vnderstanding thy kinswoman,

⁵ That they may keepe thee from the strange woman, euen from the stranger that is smoothe in her wordes.

⁶ As I was in the window of mine house, I looked through my windowe,

⁷ And I sawe among the fooles, and considered among the children a yong man destitute of vnderstanding,

² Keep my commandments and live, and my teaching as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom: 'Thou art my sister', and call understanding thy kinswoman;

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the alien woman that maketh smooth her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;

⁷ And I beheld among the thoughtless ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments, and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the table of thine heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷ And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding,

² Observe my commandments, and live: and my teaching as the apple of thy eyes.

³ Bind them around thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.

⁴ Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from an adulterous woman, from an alien that useth flattering speeches.

⁶ For through the window of my house, through my lattice did I once look out,

⁷ And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a lad void of sense;

² Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; And keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

³ And bind them on thy fingers, And write them on the table of thy heart.

⁴ Say that wisdom is thy sister, And gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

⁵ That she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, If she should assail thee with flattering 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,

⁷ Passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

² Keep my commandments and live! Yea, my teaching, as the apple of thine eye!

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, Write them upon the tablet of thy heart!

⁴ Say unto wisdom, “Thou art my sister!” And call understanding thy near acquaintance;

⁵ That they may keep thee from the wife of another, From the stranger, that useth smooth words.

⁶ For through the window of my house, Through the lattice I was looking forth,

⁷ And I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man void of understanding.

² Obey my mitzvot ·instructions· and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commands and live and keep my instruction as the apple of your eye.

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

⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kinsman,

⁵ in order to keep yourself from the adulterous woman, from the immoral woman with her smooth words.

⁶ At the window of my house I was looking out through the lattice.

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

² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw amongst the simple ones. I discerned amongst the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thy eye.

³ Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thy heart.

⁴ Say to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁵ That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁷ And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³ Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴ Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵ that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷ I saw amongst the simple ones. I discerned amongst the youths a young man void of understanding,

² Keep thou my behests, and thou shalt live; and my law, as the apple of thine eye.

³ Bind thou it in thy fingers; write thou it in the tables of thine heart.

⁴ Say thou to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call thou prudence thy love.

⁵ That it keep thee from a strange woman; and from an alien woman, that maketh her words sweet.

⁶ For she saith, For why from the window of mine house, by the lattice, I beheld;

⁷ and I see little children, that is, fools that have little wit. I behold a young man coward or the sorry-hearted young man,

² Keep thou my behests, and thou shalt live; and my law, as the apple of thine eye. (Keep thou my commands, and thou shalt live; and my instructions, or my teaching, as the apple of thine eyes.)

³ Bind thou it in thy fingers; write thou it in the tables of thine heart. (Bind thou it on thy fingers; write thou it on the tablets of thy heart.)

⁴ Say thou to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call thou prudence thy love (or and call thou understanding, thy friend).

⁵ That it keep thee from a strange woman; and from an alien woman, that maketh her words sweet. (So that they keep thee safe from a strange woman; yea, from an unknown woman, who maketh her words sweet.)

⁶ (For she saith), For why from the window of mine house, by the lattice, I beheld;

⁷ and I see little children, that is, fools that have little wit. I behold a young man coward, (and I see fools, who have little intelligence. I behold a cowardly young man,)

² Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

³ Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

⁴ Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou art.' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'

⁵ To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

⁶ For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,

⁷ And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,