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 houseI looked through my casement,
7 and beheld among the simple ones,I discerned among the youths,a young man void of understanding,