Let them not recede from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart.
All my enemies were whispering against me. They were thinking up evils against me.
My son, if you would accept my words, and conceal my commandments within you,
It shall be beautiful to you, if you preserve it in your inner self, and it shall overflow from your lips,
My son, do not forget my law, but let your heart guard my precepts.
My son, let not these things move away from your eyes. Preserve law as well as counsel.
Let not mercy and truth abandon you: encircle them around your throat, and inscribe them on the tablets of your heart.
Bind them to your heart unceasingly, and encircle them around your throat.
Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.
And so, guard yourself and your soul carefully. You should not forget the words that your eyes have seen, and do not let them be cut away from your heart, throughout all the days of your life. You shall teach them to your sons and to your grandsons,