If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch secretly for the innocent without cause,

And they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.

Thoughtfulness doth watch over thee, Understanding doth keep thee,

Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

O the happiness of the man hearkening to me, To watch at my doors day by day, To watch at the door-posts of my entrance.

When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Thou considerest diligently that which is before thee,

Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.