Discretion shall preserve thee, Understanding shall keep thee:
Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you,
Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
Discretion will guard you; understanding will protect you.
then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,
Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; For I wait on thee.
To give subtilty to the simple, To the young man knowledge and discretion.
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: Love her, and she shall keep thee.
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,