1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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,
8. passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,
9. in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
10. And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.
11. She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:
12. now without, now in the broadways, --and she lieth in wait at every corner.