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.