1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
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,
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.