1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
2. Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
3. Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
4. Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,
5. That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
6. For I look out of the window of my house through the lattice,
7. And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,
8. Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.
9. In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,
10. And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot's attire prepared to deceive souls; talkative and wandering,
11. Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
12. Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
13. And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:
14. I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.