¹My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

¹Čuvaj, sine, riječi moje i pohrani moje zapovijedi kod sebe.

²Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

²Čuvaj moje zapovijedi, i bit ćeš živ, i nauk moj kao zjenicu oka svoga.

³Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

³Priveži ih sebi na prste, upiši ih na ploči srca svoga;

⁴Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

⁴reci mudrosti: "Moja si sestra" i razboritost nazovi "sestričnom",

⁵That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

⁵da te čuva od žene preljubnice, od tuđinke koja laskavo govori.

⁶For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

⁶Kad bijah jednom na prozoru svoje kuće i gledah van kroz rešetku,

⁷And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

⁷vidjeh među lakovjernima, opazih među momcima nerazumna mladića:

⁸Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

⁸prolazio je ulicom kraj njezina ugla i koracao putem k njezinoj kući

⁹In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

⁹u sumraku između dana i večeri kad se hvata noćna tmina;

¹⁰And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

¹⁰i gle, susrete ga žena, bludno odjevena i s prijevarom u srcu.

¹¹(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

¹¹Jogunasta bijaše i razuzdana, noge joj se nisu mogle u kući zadržati;

¹²Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

¹²bila je čas na ulici, čas na trgovima i vrebala kod svakog ugla;

¹³So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

¹³i uhvati ga i poljubi i reče mu bezobrazna lica:

¹⁴I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

¹⁴"Bila sam dužna žrtvu pričesnicu, i danas izvrših svoj zavjet;

¹⁵Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

¹⁵zato sam ti izašla u susret, da te tražim, i nađoh te.

¹⁶I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

¹⁶Svoju sam postelju nastrla sagovima, vezenim pokrivačima misirskim;

¹⁷I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

¹⁷svoj sam krevet namirisala smirnom, alojem i cimetom.

¹⁸Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

¹⁸Hajde da se opijamo nasladom do jutra i da se radujemo užicima ljubavi.

¹⁹For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

¹⁹Jer muža mi nema kod kuće: otišao je na dalek put;

²⁰He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

²⁰uzeo je sa sobom novčani tobolac; a vratit će se kući tek o uštapu."

²¹With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

²¹Tako ga zavede svojim vičnim nagovorom, odvuče ga svojim glatkim usnama.

²²He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

²²I ludo on pođe za njom, kao što vol ide na klaonicu i kao što jelen zapleten u mrežu čeka

²³Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

²³dok mu strijela ne probije jetra, i kao ptica što ulijeće u zamku, i ne znajući da će ga to života stajati.

²⁴Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁴Zato me, sine moj, poslušaj i čuj riječi mojih usta.

²⁵Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

²⁵Nek' ti srce ne zastranjuje na njezine putove i ne lutaj po njezinim stazama.

²⁶For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

²⁶Jer je mnoge smrtno ranila i oborila, i mnogo je onih što ih je pobila.

²⁷Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.

²⁷U Podzemlje vode putovi kroz njenu kuću, dolje u odaje smrti.