¹替人作保要謹慎我兒，如果你作朋友的保證人，替外人擊掌擔保；

¹My son, if you have become collateral for your neighbor, if you have struck your hands in pledge for a stranger;

²如果你給自己口裡的話纏累，給你口裡的話綁住；

²You are trapped by the words of your mouth. You are ensnared with the words of your mouth.

³我兒，既然你落在你朋友的手中，就要這樣行，好解救你自己，你要自己降卑，去懇求你的朋友。

³Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, since you have come into the hand of your neighbor. Go, humble yourself. Press your plea with your neighbor.

⁴不要讓你的眼睛睡覺，不要容你的眼瞼打盹；

⁴Give no sleep to your eyes, nor slumber to your eyelids.

⁵要解救自己，像羚羊脫離獵人的手，像飛鳥脫離捕鳥人的手。

⁵Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

⁶不可懶惰懶惰人哪！你去看看螞蟻，察看牠們所行的，就可得著智慧。

⁶Go to the ant, you sluggard. Consider her ways, and be wise;

⁷螞蟻沒有元帥，沒有官長，也沒有統治者，

⁸尚且在夏天預備食物，在收割的時候積聚糧食。

⁸provides her bread in the summer, and gathers her food in the harvest.

⁹懶惰人哪，你要睡到幾時呢？你甚麼時候才睡醒呢？

⁹How long will you sleep, sluggard? When will you arise out of your sleep?

¹⁰再睡片時，打盹片時，抱著手躺臥片時，

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:

¹¹你的貧窮就必像強盜來到，你的缺乏就必像拿兵器的人來到。

¹¹so your poverty will come as a robber, and your scarcity as an armed man.

¹²耶和華憎惡的事無賴漢、壞人到處使用欺詐的口；

¹²A worthless person, a man of iniquity, is he who walks with a perverse mouth;

¹³他以眼傳神，用腳示意，用指頭指點，

¹³who winks with his eyes, who signals with his feet, who motions with his fingers;

¹⁴心存乖謬，圖謀惡事，常常散布紛爭。

¹⁴in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always sows discord.

¹⁵因此，災難必忽然臨到，他必突然毀滅，無法挽救。

¹⁵Therefore his calamity will come suddenly. He will be broken suddenly, and that without remedy.

¹⁶耶和華恨惡的事有六樣，連他心裡厭惡的，共有七樣，

¹⁶There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him:

¹⁷就是高傲的眼、說謊的舌頭、流無辜人血的手、

¹⁷haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;

¹⁸圖謀惡事的心、快跑行惡的腳、

¹⁸a heart that devises wicked schemes, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

¹⁹說謊的假證人，和在弟兄中散布紛爭的人。

¹⁹a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

²⁰犯姦淫的必惹禍患我兒，要謹守你父親的誡命，不可離棄你母親的訓誨。

²⁰My son, keep your father’s commandment, and don’t forsake your mother’s teaching.

²¹要把它們常常繫在你的心上，綁在你的頸項上。

²¹Bind them continually on your heart. Tie them around your neck.

²²你行走的時候，它們必引導你；你睡覺的時候，它們必保護你；你醒來的時候，它們必和你交談。

²²When you walk, it will lead you. When you sleep, it will watch over you. When you awake, it will talk with you.

²³因為誡命是燈，訓誨是光，出於管教的責備是生命之道，

²³For the commandment is a lamp, and the law is light. Reproofs of instruction are the way of life,

²⁴能保護你遠離邪惡的女人，遠離妓女諂媚的舌頭。

²⁴to keep you from the immoral woman, from the flattery of the wayward wife’s tongue.

²⁵你心裡不要貪戀她的美色，也不要給她的媚眼勾引。

²⁵Don’t lust after her beauty in your heart, neither let her captivate you with her eyelids.

²⁶因為妓女使人只剩一塊餅，通姦的婦人獵取人寶貴的生命。

²⁶For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

²⁷如果人把火藏在懷裡，他的衣服怎能不燒著呢？

²⁷Can a man scoop fire into his lap, and his clothes not be burned?

²⁸如果人在火炭上行走，他的腳怎能不灼傷呢？

²⁸Or can one walk on hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?

²⁹凡是和別人的妻子通姦的，也是這樣；凡是親近她的，都必不免受罰。

²⁹So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife. Whoever touches her will not be unpunished.

³⁰盜賊因飢餓偷竊充飢，人不會鄙視他。

³⁰Men don’t despise a thief, if he steals to satisfy himself when he is hungry:

³¹但如果他被捉住，就要七倍償還，要把他家裡所有的財物都交出來。

³¹but if he is found, he shall restore seven times. He shall give all the wealth of his house.

³²和婦人通姦的，實在無知；行這事的，是自我毀滅。

³²He who commits adultery with a woman is void of understanding. He who does it destroys his own soul.

³³他必遭受擊打，被凌辱，他的恥辱永不能塗抹。

³³He will get wounds and dishonor. His reproach will not be wiped away.

³⁴因為嫉妒激起了丈夫的烈怒，使他在報仇的時候，必不留情。

³⁴For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

³⁵任何賠償，他都不接受，縱使你餽送許多禮物，他也不肯罷休。

³⁵He won’t regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though you give many gifts.