7:1 My child, 2 keep my words
and treasure up my commands in your own keeping. 3
7:2 Keep my commands 4 so that you may live, 5
and obey 6 my instruction as your most prized possession. 7
7:3 Bind them on your forearm; 8
write them on the tablet of your heart. 9
7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” 10
and call understanding a close relative,
7:5 so that they may keep you 11 from the adulterous 12 woman,
from the loose woman 13 who flatters you 14 with her words. 15
7:6 For at the window of my house
through my window lattice I looked out
7:7 and I saw among the naive –
I discerned among the youths 16 –
a young man 17 who lacked wisdom. 18
7:8 He was passing by the street near her corner,
making his way 19 along the road to her house 20
7:9 in the twilight, the evening, 21
in the dark of the night. 22