Proverbs 7:1-11

New King James Version

7 My son, keep my words,
And ^(A)treasure my commands within you.
^2 (B)Keep my commands and live,
^(C)And my law as the apple of your eye.
^3 (D)Bind them on your fingers;
Write them on the tablet of your heart.
⁴ Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”
And call understanding your nearest kin,
^5 (E)That they may keep you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words.

⁶ For at the window of my house
I looked through my lattice,
⁷ And saw among the simple,
I perceived among the ^[a]youths,
A young man ^(F)devoid^[b] of understanding,
⁸ Passing along the street near her corner;
And he took the path to her house
^9 (G)In the twilight, in the evening,
In the black and dark night.