Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call prudence your friend.
I have said to decay and to worms: "You are my father, my mother, and my sister."
Bind it with your fingers; write it on the tablets of your heart.
So may she guard you from the woman who is an outsider, and from the stranger who sweetens her words.
Bride to Groom: Who will give you to me as my brother, feeding from the breasts of my mother, so that I may discover you outside, and may kiss you, and so that now no one may despise me?