discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Discretion shall preserve thee, Understanding shall keep thee:
Discretion shall watch over you, understanding shall keep you,
Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:
Discretion will guard you; understanding will protect you.
then counsel must guard you, and prudence must serve you,
Counsel shall keep thee, and prudence shall preserve thee,
Let integrity and uprightness preserve me; for I wait on thee.
to give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee: love her, and she shall keep thee.
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,