¹替人作保要谨慎

¹My son! if thou hast been surety for thy friend, Hast stricken for a stranger thy hand,

²如果你给自己口里的话缠累，给你口里的话绑住；

²Hast been snared with sayings of thy mouth, Hast been captured with sayings of thy mouth,

³我儿，既然你落在你朋友的手中，就要这样行，好解救你自己，你要自己降卑，去恳求你的朋友。

³Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For thou hast come into the hand of thy friend. Go, trample on thyself, and strengthen thy friend,

⁴不要让你的眼睛睡觉，不要容你的眼睑打盹；

⁴Give not sleep to thine eyes, And slumber to thine eyelids,

⁵要解救自己，像羚羊脱离猎人的手，像飞鸟脱离捕鸟人的手。

⁵Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

⁶不可懒惰懒惰人哪！你去看看蚂蚁，察看它们所行的，就可得着智慧。

⁶Go unto the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

⁷蚂蚁没有元帅，没有官长，也没有统治者，

⁷Which hath not captain, overseer, and ruler,

⁸尚且在夏天预备食物，在收割的时候积聚粮食。

⁸She doth prepare in summer her bread, She hath gathered in harvest her food.

⁹懒惰人哪，你要睡到几时呢？你什么时候才睡醒呢？

⁹Till when, O slothful one, dost thou lie? When dost thou arise from thy sleep?

¹⁰再睡片时，打盹片时，抱着手躺卧片时，

¹⁰A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

¹¹你的贫穷就必像强盗来到，你的缺乏就必像拿兵器的人来到。

¹¹And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

¹²耶和华憎恶的事无赖汉、坏人到处使用欺诈的口；

¹²A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,

¹³他以眼传神，用脚示意，用指头指点，

¹³Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

¹⁴心存乖谬，图谋恶事，常常散布纷争。

¹⁴Frowardness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, Contentions he sendeth forth.

¹⁵因此，灾难必忽然临到，他必突然毁灭，无法挽救。

¹⁵Therefore suddenly cometh his calamity, Instantly he is broken — and no healing.

¹⁶耶和华恨恶的事有六样，连他心里厌恶的，共有七样，

¹⁶These six hath Jehovah hated, Yea, seven [are] abominations to His soul.

¹⁷就是高傲的眼、说谎的舌头、流无辜人血的手、

¹⁷Eyes high — tongues false — And hands shedding innocent blood —

¹⁸图谋恶事的心、快跑行恶的脚、

¹⁸A heart devising thoughts of vanity — Feet hasting to run to evil —

¹⁹说谎的假证人，和在弟兄中散布纷争的人。

¹⁹A false witness [who] doth breathe out lies — And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

²⁰犯奸淫的必惹祸患我儿，要谨守你父亲的诫命，不可离弃你母亲的训诲。

²⁰Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

²¹要把它们常常系在你的心上，绑在你的颈项上。

²¹Bind them on thy heart continually, Tie them on thy neck.

²²你行走的时候，它们必引导你；你睡觉的时候，它们必保护你；你醒来的时候，它们必和你交谈。

²²In thy going up and down, it leadeth thee, In thy lying down, it watcheth over thee, And thou hast awaked — it talketh [with] thee.

²³因为诫命是灯，训诲是光，出于管教的责备是生命之道，

²³For a lamp [is] the command, And the law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,

²⁴能保护你远离邪恶的女人，远离妓女谄媚的舌头。

²⁴To preserve thee from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

²⁵你心里不要贪恋她的美色，也不要给她的媚眼勾引。

²⁵Desire not her beauty in thy heart, And let her not take thee with her eyelids.

²⁶因为妓女使人只剩一块饼，通奸的妇人猎取人宝贵的生命。

²⁶For a harlot consumeth unto a cake of bread, And an adulteress the precious soul hunteth.

²⁷如果人把火藏在怀里，他的衣服怎能不烧着呢？

²⁷Doth a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burnt?

²⁸如果人在火炭上行走，他的脚怎能不灼伤呢？

²⁸Doth a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

²⁹凡是和别人的妻子通奸的，也是这样；凡是亲近她的，都必不免受罚。

²⁹So [is] he who hath gone in unto the wife of his neighbour, None who doth touch her is innocent.

³⁰盗贼因饥饿偷窃充饥，人不会鄙视他。

³⁰They do not despise the thief, When he stealeth to fill his soul when he is hungry,

³¹但如果他被捉住，就要七倍偿还，要把他家里所有的财物都交出来。

³¹And being found he repayeth sevenfold, All the substance of his house he giveth.

³²和妇人通奸的，实在无知；行这事的，是自我毁灭。

³²He who committeth adultery [with] a woman lacketh heart, He is destroying his soul who doth it.

³³他必遭受击打，被凌辱，他的耻辱永不能涂抹。

³³A stroke and shame he doth find, And his reproach is not wiped away,

³⁴因为嫉妒激起了丈夫的烈怒，使他在报仇的时候，必不留情。

³⁴For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

³⁵任何赔偿，他都不接受，纵使你馈送许多礼物，他也不肯罢休。

³⁵He accepteth not the appearance of any atonement, Yea, he doth not consent, Though thou dost multiply bribes!