¹My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

¹Sine moj, čuj moju mudrost, prigni uho mojoj razboritosti

²That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

²da sačuvaš oprez, da ti usne zadrže znanje.

³For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

³Jer s usana žene preljubnice kaplje med i nepce joj je glađe od ulja,

⁴But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

⁴ali je ona naposljetku gorka kao pelin, oštra kao dvosjekli mač.

⁵Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

⁵Njene noge silaze k smrti, a koraci vode u Podzemlje.

⁶Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

⁶Ona ne pazi na put života, ne mari što su joj staze kolebljive.

⁷Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

⁷Zato me sada poslušaj, sine, i ne odstupaj od riječi mojih usta.

⁸Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

⁸Neka je put tvoj daleko od nje i ne približuj se vratima njezine kuće,

⁹Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

⁹da drugima ne bi dao svoju slavu i okrutnima svoje godine;

¹⁰Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

¹⁰da se ne bi tuđinci nasitili tvoga dobra i da tvoja zaslužba ne ode u tuđu kuću;

¹¹And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

¹¹da ne ridaš na koncu kad ti nestane tijela i puti

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

¹²i da ne kažeš: "Oh, kako sam mrzio pouku i kako mi je srce preziralo ukor!

¹³And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

¹³I ne slušah glasa svojih učitelja, niti priklonih uho onima što me poučavahu.

¹⁴I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

¹⁴I umalo ne zapadoh u svako zlo, usred zbora i zajednice!"

¹⁵Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

¹⁵Pij vodu iz svoje nakapnice i onu što teče iz tvoga studenca.

¹⁶Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

¹⁶Moraju li se tvoji izvori razlijevati i tvoji potoci teći ulicama?

¹⁷Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

¹⁷Nego neka oni budu samo tvoji, a ne i tuđinaca koji su uza te.

¹⁸Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

¹⁸Neka je blagoslovljen izvor tvoj i raduj se sa ženom svoje mladosti:

¹⁹Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

¹⁹neka ti je kao mila košuta i ljupka gazela, neka te grudi njene opajaju u svako doba, njezina ljubav zatravljuje bez prestanka!

²⁰And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

²⁰TÓa zašto bi se, sine moj, zanosio preljubnicom i grlio tuđinki njedra?

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

²¹Jer pred Jahvinim su očima čovjekovi putovi i on motri sve njegove staze.

²²His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

²²Opakoga će uhvatiti njegova zloća i sapet će ga užad njegovih grijeha.

²³He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

²³Umrijet će jer nema pouke, propast će zbog svoje goleme gluposti.