1. My child, keep my wordsand treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
2. Keep my commands so that you may live,and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
3. Bind them on your forearm;write them on the tablet of your heart.
4. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”and call understanding a close relative,
5. so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman,from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.
6. For at the window of my housethrough my window lattice I looked out
7. and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom.
8. He was passing by the street near her corner,making his way along the road to her house
9. in the twilight, the evening,in the dark of the night.
10. Suddenly a woman came out to meet him!She was dressed like a prostitute and with secret intent.