to keep you from (A)the forbidden[a] woman,
    from (B)the adulteress[b] with her smooth words.

For at (C)the window of my house
    I have looked out through my lattice,
and I have seen among (D)the simple,
    I have perceived among the youths,
    a young man (E)lacking sense,

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew strange
  2. Proverbs 7:5 Hebrew the foreign woman

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