Proverbs 7:1–5

Warning Against the Adulteress

7 hMy son, keep my words

and htreasure up my commandments with you;

2  ikeep my commandments and live;

keep my teaching as jthe apple of your eye;

3  kbind them on your fingers;

kwrite them on the tablet of your heart.

4  Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,”

and call insight your intimate friend,

5  to keep you from lthe forbidden1 woman,

from lthe adulteress2 with her smooth words.