Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; And call understanding thy kinswoman:
Oh that thou wert as my brother, That sucked the breasts of my mother! When I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; Yea, and none would despise me.
If I have said to corruption, Thou art my father; To the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister;
Bind them upon thy fingers; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart.
That they may keep thee from the strange woman, From the foreigner that flattereth with her words.