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.