¹当远离淫妇

¹My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

²好让你持守明辨的态度，你的嘴唇谨守知识。

²To observe thoughtfulness, And knowledge do thy lips keep.

³因为淫妇的嘴唇滴下蜂蜜，她的口比油更滑；

³For the lips of a strange woman drop honey, And smoother than oil [is] her mouth,

⁴至终却苦似苦菫，快如两刃的剑。

⁴And her latter end [is] bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a sword [with] mouths.

⁵她的脚走下死地，她的脚步踏向阴间。

⁵Her feet are going down to death, Sheol do her steps take hold of.

⁶她不理会生命之路，她的路径变迁无定，自己也不知道。

⁶The path of life — lest thou ponder, Moved have her paths — thou knowest not.

⁷孩子们，现在要听从我，不可离弃我口中的话。

⁷And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

⁸你的道路要远离她，不可走近她的家门；

⁸Keep far from off her thy way, And come not near unto the opening of her house,

⁹免得你的精力给了别人，你的年日交给了残忍的人；

⁹Lest thou give to others thy honour, And thy years to the fierce,

¹⁰免得外人饱享你的财物，你劳碌得来的归入别人的家。

¹⁰Lest strangers be filled [with] thy power, And thy labours in the house of a stranger,

¹¹在你生命终结，你的肉体和身躯衰残的时候，你就悲叹，

¹¹And thou hast howled in thy latter end, In the consumption of thy flesh and thy food,

¹²说：“我为什么恨恶管教，我的心为什么轻视责备，

¹²And hast said, `How have I hated instruction, And reproof hath my heart despised,

¹³不听从我老师的话，也不留心听那些教导我的人。

¹³And I have not hearkened to the voice of my directors, And to my teachers have not inclined mine ear.

¹⁴在众民的集会中，我几乎落在万劫不复之地。”

¹⁴As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

¹⁵要专爱妻子你要喝自己池中的水，饮自己井里的活水。

¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, Even flowing ones out of thine own well.

¹⁶你的泉源怎么可以外溢？你的河水怎么可以流在街上？

¹⁶Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

¹⁷它们要独归你一人所有，不要让外人与你共享。

¹⁷Let them be to thee for thyself, And not to strangers with thee.

¹⁸要使你的泉源蒙福，要喜悦你年轻时所娶的妻子。

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed, And rejoice because of the wife of thy youth,

¹⁹她像可爱的母鹿，人所喜悦的母山羊，愿她的乳房时常使你满足，愿她的爱情常常使你恋慕。

¹⁹A hind of loves, and a roe of grace! Let her loves satisfy thee at all times, In her love magnify thyself continually.

²⁰我儿，为什么恋慕淫妇？为什么拥抱妓女的胸怀呢？

²⁰And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

²¹因为人的道路都在耶和华眼前，他也审察人的一切路径。

²¹For over-against the eyes of Jehovah are the ways of each, And all his paths He is pondering.

²²恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住，他必被自己罪恶的绳索缠住。

²²His own iniquities do capture the wicked, And with the ropes of his sin he is holden.

²³他必因不受管教而死亡，又因自己过分愚妄而走进歧途。

²³He dieth without instruction, And in the abundance of his folly magnifieth himself!