¹當遠離淫婦我兒，要留心聽我的智慧，側耳聽我的哲理，

¹My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

²好讓你持守明辨的態度，你的嘴唇謹守知識。

²that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

³因為淫婦的嘴唇滴下蜂蜜，她的口比油更滑；

³For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

⁴至終卻苦似苦菫，快如兩刃的劍。

⁴But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.

⁵她的腳走下死地，她的腳步踏向陰間。

⁵Her feet go down to death. Her steps lead straight to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. .

⁶她不理會生命之路，她的路徑變遷無定，自己也不知道。

⁶She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

⁷孩子們，現在要聽從我，不可離棄我口中的話。

⁷Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

⁸你的道路要遠離她，不可走近她的家門；

⁸Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

⁹免得你的精力給了別人，你的年日交給了殘忍的人；

⁹lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

¹⁰免得外人飽享你的財物，你勞碌得來的歸入別人的家。

¹⁰lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

¹¹在你生命終結，你的肉體和身軀衰殘的時候，你就悲歎，

¹¹You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

¹²說：“我為甚麼恨惡管教，我的心為甚麼輕視責備，

¹²and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

¹³不聽從我老師的話，也不留心聽那些教導我的人。

¹³neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

¹⁴在眾民的集會中，我幾乎落在萬劫不復之地。”

¹⁴I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly.”

¹⁵要專愛妻子你要喝自己池中的水，飲自己井裡的活水。

¹⁵Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

¹⁶你的泉源怎麼可以外溢？你的河水怎麼可以流在街上？

¹⁶Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

¹⁷它們要獨歸你一人所有，不要讓外人與你共享。

¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

¹⁸要使你的泉源蒙福，要喜悅你年輕時所娶的妻子。

¹⁸Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

¹⁹她像可愛的母鹿，人所喜悅的母山羊，願她的乳房時常使你滿足，願她的愛情常常使你戀慕。

¹⁹A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

²⁰我兒，為甚麼戀慕淫婦？為甚麼擁抱妓女的胸懷呢？

²⁰For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

²¹因為人的道路都在耶和華眼前，他也審察人的一切路徑。

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

²²惡人必被自己的罪孽捉住，他必被自己罪惡的繩索纏住。

²²The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

²³他必因不受管教而死亡，又因自己過分愚妄而走進歧途。

²³He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.