7:1 My child,
and treasure up my commands in your own keeping.
7:2 Keep my commands
and obey
7:3 Bind them on your forearm;
write them on the tablet of your heart.
7:4 Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
and call understanding a close relative,
7:5 so that they may keep you
from the loose woman
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
a young man
7:8 He was passing by the street near her corner,
making his way
7:9 in the twilight, the evening,
in the dark of the night.
7:10 Suddenly
She was dressed like a prostitute