1. My son, remember my words. Don’t forget what I have told you.
2. Consider my teaching as precious as your own eyes. Obey my commands, and you will have a good life.
3. Tie them around your finger. Write them on your heart.
4. Treat wisdom like the woman you love and knowledge like the one dearest to you.
5. Wisdom will save you from that other woman, the other man’s wife, who tempts you with such sweet words.
6. One day I was looking out my window
7. at some foolish teenagers and noticed one who had no sense at all.
8. He was walking through the marketplace and came to the corner where a certain woman lived. He then turned up the road that goes by her house.
9. The day was ending. The sun had set, and it was almost dark.