²⁰ My son, attend to my words.
    Turn your ear to my sayings.
²¹ Let them not depart from your eyes.
    Keep them in the center of your heart.
²² For they are life to those who find them,
    and health to their whole body.
²³ Keep your heart with all diligence,
    for out of it is the wellspring of life.
²⁴ Put away from yourself a perverse mouth.
    Put corrupt lips far from you.