¹¹ Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

⁶ Don't forsake her, and she will preserve you. Love her, and she will keep you.

²¹ Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, For I wait for you.

²² When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

²³ For the commandment is a lamp, And the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

²⁴ To keep you from the immoral woman, From the flattery of the wayward wife's tongue.

¹⁰ If the axe is blunt, and one doesn't sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.

¹⁵ Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

⁹ How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.

¹⁰ With my whole heart, I have sought you. Don't let me wander from your commandments.

¹¹ I have hidden your word in my heart, That I might not sin against you.

¹⁵ Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.

¹⁶ Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

¹⁷ The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.

¹⁸ Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.