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 table of thine heart.
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
7 And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,