4  Say unto wisdom, Thou art emy sister;

And call understanding thy fkinswoman:

5  gThat they may keep thee from the strange woman,

gFrom the stranger which flattereth with her words.

6  For hat the window of my house

hI looked through my casement,

7  And beheld among the isimple ones,

I discerned among †the youths,

A young man kvoid of understanding,

8  Passing through the lstreet near mher corner;

And he went the way to her house,

9  In the ntwilight, †in the evening,

In the oblack and dark night:

10  And, behold, oothere met him a woman

With pthe attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

11  (She is qloud and rstubborn;

sHer feet abide not in her house:

12  Now is she without, now in the streets,

And sslieth in wait at mevery corner.)

13  So she caught him, and kissed him,

And †with an impudent face said unto him,

14  †I have tpeace offerings with me;

This day have I upayed my vows.

15  Therefore came I forth to meet thee,

xDiligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.