Say to wisdom, “You are my sister,” and call understanding your kin,
I have said to the pit, ‘You are my father’; to the worm, ‘You are my mother and my sister.’
Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.
that they may keep you from an adulteress, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.
Oh that you were like a brother to me, who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outside, I would kiss you; no one would despise me.