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,
9. In the twilight, at dusk of day,in the very dark of night.
10. Then the woman comes to meet him,dressed like a harlot, with secret designs.
11. She is raucous and unruly,her feet cannot stay at home;