1. My son, keep my wordsand treasure up my commandments with you;
2. keep my commandments and live;keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;
3. bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
4. Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”and call insight your intimate friend,
5. to keep you from the forbidden woman,from the adulteress with her smooth words.
6. For at the window of my houseI have looked out through my lattice,