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,