1. My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
2. Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
3. Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the tablet of thine heart.
4. Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5. That they may keep thee from the woman belonging to someone else, from the stranger who flatters with her words.
6. For at the window of my house I looked through my casement
7. and beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
8. passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,