Proverbs 7:1-7

¹My son, keep thou my words; and keep my behests to thee. (My son, remember my words; and keep my commands with thee.)

²Keep thou my behests, and thou shalt live; and my law, as the apple of thine eye. (Keep thou my commands, and thou shalt live; and my instructions, or my teaching, as the apple of thine eyes.)

³Bind thou it in thy fingers; write thou it in the tables of thine heart. (Bind thou it on thy fingers; write thou it on the tablets of thy heart.)

⁴Say thou to wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call thou prudence thy love (or and call thou understanding, thy friend).

⁵That it keep thee from a strange woman; and from an alien woman, that maketh her words sweet. (So that they keep thee safe from a strange woman; yea, from an unknown woman, who maketh her words sweet.)

⁶(For she saith), For why from the window of mine house, by the lattice, I beheld;

⁷and I see little children, that is, fools that have little wit. I behold a young man coward, (and I see fools, who have little intelligence. I behold a cowardly young man,)