Proverbs 7:1-10

¹My son, keep my words, and hide with thee my commandments.

^1aMy son, honour the Lord, and thou shalt be strong; and fear none but him:

²keep my commandments, and thou shalt live; and keep my words as the pupils of thine eyes.

³And bind them on thy fingers, and write them on the table of thine heart.

⁴Say that wisdom is thy sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for thyself;

⁵that she may keep thee from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail thee with flattering words.

⁶For she looks from a window out of her house into the streets, at one whom she may see of the senseless ones, a young man void of understanding,

⁷passing by the corner in the passages near her house,

⁸and speaking, in the dark of the evening,

⁹when there happens to be the stillness of night and of darkness:

¹⁰and the woman meets him having the appearance of a harlot, that causes the hearts of young men to flutter.