1 My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.
2 Keep my commandments and live; Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
3 Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Tell wisdom, "You are my sister." Call understanding your relative,
5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the foreigner who flatters with her words.
6 For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice.
7 I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,
