Sirach 51:17

¹⁵Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her: my foot went the right way, from my youth up sought I after her.

¹⁶I bowed down mine ear a little, and received her, and gat much learning.

— Sirach 51:17 —

¹⁸For I purposed to do after her, and earnestly I followed that which is good; so shall I not be confounded.

¹⁹My soul hath wrestled with her, and in my doings I was exact: I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above, and bewailed my ignorances of her.