1. My son, keep my words;store up my commands within you.
2. Keep my commands and live,and my instruction like the pupil 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";call understanding "friend,"
5. so she might guard you against the mysterious woman,from the foreign woman who flatters you.
6. When from the window of my house,from behind the screen, I gazed down,
7. I looked among the naive young menand noticed among the youth, one who had no sense.