Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

谋略必护卫你；聪明必保守你，

智谋要庇护你，聪明必保护你，

智谋要庇护你，聪明必保护你，

明辨力必护佑你，悟性必看顾你。

明辨的能力必护卫你，聪明必看顾你；

谋略会看守你，聪慧会守护你，

謀略必護衛你；聰明必保守你，

智謀要庇護你，聰明必保護你，

智謀要庇護你，聰明必保護你，

明辨力必護佑你，悟性必看顧你。

明辨的能力必護衛你，聰明必看顧你；

謀略必護衛你；明哲必守護着你；

謀略會看守你，聰慧會守護你，

精明必衛爾、通達必保爾、

如是必得護衛、

智謀必保爾、明哲必護爾、

Good sense will keep you safe. Understanding will guard you.

discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,

Wise choices will watch over you. Understanding will keep you safe.

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you.

Discretion will watch over you, Understanding will guard you,

Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you,

Discretion shall watch over thee; Understanding shall keep thee:

Discretion will watch over you, and understanding will guard you,

Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:

Discretion will protect you, understanding will guard you,

Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you; love her, and she will watch over you.

May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope, Lord, is in you.

If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.

Be very careful, then, how you live— not as unwise but as wise,

When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; when you awake, they will speak to you.For this command is a lamp, this teaching is a light, and correction and instruction are the way to life,keeping you from your neighbor’s wife, from the smooth talk of a wayward woman.

How can a young person stay on the path of purity? By living according to your word.I seek you with all my heart; do not let me stray from your commands.I have hidden your word in my heart that I might not sin against you.

Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.So I said,“ Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.