1. My son, keep my words and store up my commands within you.
2. Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings 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 to insight, “You are my relative.”
5. They will keep you from the adulterous woman, from the wayward woman with her seductive words.
6. At the window of my house I looked down through the lattice.
7. I saw among the simple, I noticed among the young men, a youth who had no sense.