Prv 7:1-5

1^* My son, keep my words,

and treasure my commands.

2Keep my commands and live,^*

and my teaching as the apple of your eye;

3Bind them on your fingers,

write them on the tablet of your heart.^a

4Say to Wisdom, “You are my sister!”^*

Call Understanding, “Friend!”

5That they may keep you from a stranger,

from the foreign woman with her smooth words.^b