2 Keep my commands so that you may live,and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
3 Bind them on your forearm;write them on the tablet of your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”and call understanding a close relative,
5 so that they may keep you from the adulterous woman,from the loose woman who flatters you with her words.
6 For at the window of my housethrough my window lattice I looked out
7 and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom.
8 He was passing by the street near her corner,making his way along the road to her house