2 Keep my commands and you will live;guard my teachings as the apple 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,’and to insight, ‘You are my relative.’
5 They will keep you from the adulterous woman,from the wayward woman with her seductive words.
6 At the window of my houseI looked down through the lattice.
7 I saw among the simple,I noticed among the young men,a youth who had no sense.
8 He was going down the street near her corner,walking along in the direction of her house