1. My child, guard my sayings; store my commandments with you.
2. Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like 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 you shall call insight, “intimate friend.”
5. In order to guard yourself from an adulteress, from the foreigner who makes her words smooth.
6. For at the window of my house, through my lattice, I looked down.
7. And I saw among the simple, I observed among the youth, a young man lacking sense,
8. passing on the street at her corner, and he takes the road to her house,
9. at twilight, at the day’s evening, in the midst of night and the darkness.
10. Then behold! A woman comes to meet him with the garment of a prostitute and a secret heart.