12 Consult instead with a godly personwhom you knowkeeps the commandments,who thinks the same way you doand will empathize with you if you fail.
13 Listen carefully to whatyour own heart tells you,since nothing is more faithfulto you than it.
14 At times a person’s intuitionkeeps them informedbetter than seven sentriessitting high up on a lookout.
15 But above everything else,pray to the Most High,so that he may make your path straightin truth.
16 Speech is the beginning of every deed,and planning comes beforeevery action.
17 The key to change is the heart;
18 it poses four possibilities:good and evil, life and death,and their continual masteris the tongue.