1. My son, keep my words And treasure my commandments within you.
2. Keep my commandments 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," And call understanding your intimate friend;
5. That they may keep you from an adulteress, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6. For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
7. And I saw among the naive, And discerned among the youths A young man lacking sense,
8. Passing through the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,
9. In the twilight, in the evening, In the middle of the night and in the darkness.
10. And behold, a woman comes to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
11. She is boisterous and rebellious, Her feet do not remain at home;
12. She is now in the streets, now in the squares, And lurks by every corner.
13. So she seizes him and kisses him And with a brazen face she says to him:
14. "I was due to offer peace offerings; Today I have paid my vows.
15. "Therefore I have come out to meet you, To seek your presence earnestly, and I have found you.
16. "I have spread my couch with coverings, With colored linens of Egypt.