1. My son, keep my words,and treasure my commands.
2. Keep my commands and live,and my teaching as 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!”Call Understanding, “Friend!”
5. That they may keep you from a stranger,from the foreign woman with her smooth words.
6. For at the window of my house,through my lattice I looked out
7. And I saw among the naive,I observed among the young men,a youth with no sense,
8. Crossing the street near the corner,then walking toward her house,