1. My son, guard my words and conceal my precepts within you.
2. Son, preserve my commandments, and you shall live. And keep my law as the pupil of your eye.
3. Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.
4. Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call prudence your friend.
5. So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.
6. For I gaze from the window of my house, through the lattice,
7. and I see little ones. I consider a frenzied youth,
8. who crosses the street at the corner and close to the way of that house.
9. He steps into shadows, as day becomes evening, into the darkness and gloom of the night.
10. And behold, a woman meets him, dressed like a harlot, prepared to captivate souls: chattering and rambling,
11. unwilling to bear silence, unable to keep her feet at home,
12. now outside, now in the streets, now lying in ambush near the corners.