¹慎防淫婦的誘惑我兒，要遵守我的話，把我的誡命珍藏在心裡；

¹My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

²遵守我的誡命，你就可以存活；遵守我的訓誨，好像護衛你眼中的瞳人。

²Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

³要把它們繫在你的指頭上，刻在你的心版上。

³Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

⁴要對智慧說：“你是我的姊妹”，要稱呼聰明為親人；

⁴Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

⁵這樣行就可以保護你脫離淫亂的婦人，脫離說諂媚話的妓女。

⁵that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

⁶我在我家的窗戶內，透過窗櫺往外觀看，

⁶For at the window of my house, I looked out through my lattice.

⁷看見在愚蒙人中間，在少年人（“少年人”原文作“眾子”）裡面，我發覺有一個無知的少年人，

⁷I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

⁸在街上經過，走近淫婦的住處，向著她的家走去，

⁸passing through the street near her corner, he went the way to her house,

⁹那時是黃昏、傍晚，是在夜裡，天黑的時候。

⁹in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

¹⁰看哪！有一個婦人來迎接他，是妓女的打扮，心存詭詐。

¹⁰Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

¹¹這婦人喧嘩不停，不受約束；她在家裡停不住腳。

¹¹She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

¹²她有時在街上，有時在廣場上，或在任何角落旁邊藏伏。

¹²Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

¹³她緊拉著那少年人，和他親嘴，厚顏無恥地對他說：

¹³So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

¹⁴“我曾許願要獻平安祭，今天我剛還了我所許的願。

¹⁴“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

¹⁵因此，我出來迎接你，切切尋找你，終於找到你。

¹⁵Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

¹⁶我已用毯子，埃及線織成的花紋布，鋪了我的床；

¹⁶I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

¹⁷又用沒藥、沉香和桂皮，薰了我的榻。

¹⁸來吧！我們來飽享愛情，直到天亮，我們來在愛中盡情享樂。

¹⁸Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

¹⁹因為我丈夫不在家，遠行去了。

¹⁹For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

²⁰他手裡帶著錢袋，要到月圓的時候才回家。”

²⁰He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

²¹淫婦用許多花言巧語引誘他，用諂媚的嘴唇勾引他。

²¹With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

²²少年人就立刻跟隨她，好像牛走向屠房，又像愚妄人帶著鎖鍊去受刑罰，

²²He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

²³直到箭矢射透他的肝；他仿佛飛鳥投入網羅，並不知道會喪失性命。

²³Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

²⁴孩子們，現在你們要聽從我，留心聽我口中的話。

²⁴Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

²⁵你的心不可偏向淫婦的道路，也不要迷戀她的路徑。

²⁵Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

²⁶因為她使許多人倒斃，被她殺害的實在無數。

²⁶for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

²⁷她的家是通往陰間的路，是下到死亡的宮房。

²⁷Her house is the way to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , going down to the rooms of death.