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