Proverbs 7:1-9

¹My son, keep my words, and hide with you my commandments. My son, honour the Lord, and you shall be strong; and fear none but him:

²keep my commandments, and you shall live; and keep my words as the pupils of your eyes.

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

⁴Say that wisdom is your sister, and gain prudence as an acquaintance for yourself;

⁵that she may keep you from the strange and wicked woman, if she should assail you 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: