By what means shall a young man learn his way to purify? If he according to thy word thereto attentive be.
My sins and faults of youth do thou, O Lord, forget: After thy mercy think on me, and for thy goodness great.
Thy word I in my heart have hid, that I offend not thee.
O children, hither do ye come, and unto me give ear; I shall you teach to understand how ye the Lord should fear.
As for men's works, I, by the word that from thy lips doth flow, Did me preserve out of the paths wherein destroyers go.