1. MY SON, keep my words; lay up within you my commandments [for use when needed] and treasure them.
2. Keep my commandments and live, and keep my law and teaching as the apple (the pupil) of your eye.
3. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4. Say to skillful and godly Wisdom, You are my sister, and regard understanding or insight as your intimate friend–
5. That they may keep you from the loose woman, from the adventuress who flatters with and makes smooth her words.
6. For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice.
7. And among the simple (empty-headed and emptyhearted) ones, I perceived among the youths a young man void of good sense,
8. Sauntering through the street near the [loose woman's] corner; and he went the way to her house
9. In the twilight, in the evening; night black and dense was falling [over the young man's life].
10. And behold, there met him a woman, dressed as a harlot and sly and cunning of heart.
11. She is turbulent and willful; her feet stay not in her house;
12. Now in the streets, now in the marketplaces, she sets her ambush at every corner.
13. So she caught him and kissed him and with impudent face she said to him,
14. Sacrifices of peace offerings were due from me; this day I paid my vows.
15. So I came forth to meet you [that you might share with me the feast from my offering]; diligently I sought your face, and I have found you.