Tell wisdom, *You are my sister.* Call understanding your relative,
If I have said to corruption, 'You are my father;' to the worm, 'My mother,' and 'my sister;'
Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Oh that you were like my brother, who sucked the breasts of my mother! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; yes, and no one would despise me.