¹智慧使人認識　神我兒，如果你接受我的話，把我的誡命珍藏在心裡，

¹My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;

²留心聽智慧，致力求聰明；

²So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;

³如果你為求哲理而呼喊，為求聰明而揚聲；

³Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;

⁴如果你尋找它如同尋找銀子，搜尋它好像搜尋寶藏；

⁴If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:

⁵你就明白怎樣敬畏耶和華，並且獲得對　神的認識。

⁵then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and find the knowledge of God The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “Elohim.” .

⁶因為耶和華賜人智慧，知識和聰明都出自他的口。

⁶For Yahweh gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

⁷他為正直人珍藏大智慧，給行為完全的人作盾牌；

⁷He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;

⁸為要看顧正直人的路徑，護衛虔誠人的道路。

⁸that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his saints.

⁹這樣，你就明白公義、公正、正直，以及一切善道。

⁹Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.

¹⁰智慧使人行走義路智慧必進入你的心，知識必使你歡悅。

¹⁰For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.

¹¹明辨的能力必護衛你，聰明必看顧你；

¹¹Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,

¹²要救你脫離邪惡的道路，脫離說話乖謬的人。

¹²to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;

¹³那些人離棄正道，走上黑暗的道路。

¹³who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

¹⁴他們喜歡行惡，喜悅惡人的乖謬。

¹⁴who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;

¹⁵他們的道路彎曲，他們的行徑偏離正道。

¹⁵who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:

¹⁶智慧要救你脫離淫亂的婦人，脫離說諂媚話的妓女（“妓女”原文作“外國女子”）。

¹⁶To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;

¹⁷她離棄年輕的配偶，忘記了　神的約；

¹⁷who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:

¹⁸她的家陷入死地，她的路徑下落陰間。

¹⁸for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.

¹⁹凡是進到她那裡去的，都不能轉回，必得不著生路。

¹⁹None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:

²⁰因此，智慧必使你走在良善人的道上，持守義人的路。

²⁰that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

²¹因為正直人必在地上安居，完全人必在世上存留；

²¹For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.

²²但惡人必從地上除滅，行事奸詐的必從世上拔除。

²²But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.