1. O Lord, father, and sovereign ruler of my life, leave me not to their counsel: nor suffer me to fall by them.
2. Who will set scourges over my thoughts, and the discipline of wisdom over my heart, that they spare me not in their ignorances, and that their sine may not appear:
3. Lest my ignorances increase, and my offences be multiplied, and my sine abound, and I fall before my adversaries, and my enemy rejoice over me?
4. O Lord, father, and God of my life, leave me not to their devices.
5. Give me not haughtiness of my eyes, and turn away from me all coveting.
6. Take from me the greediness of the belly, and let not the lusts of the flesh take hold of me, and give me not over to a shameless and foolish mind.
7. Hear, O ye children, the discipline of the mouth: and he that will keep it shall not perish by his lips, nor be brought to fall into most wicked works.
8. A sinner is caught in his own vanity, and the proud and the evil speakers shall fall thereby.