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

¹Sin moj, na modrost mojo pazi, proti umnosti moji nagni uho svoje,

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

²da obdržiš premišljenost in ustne tvoje ohranijo spoznanje.

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

³Zakaj med cede ustne tujke in glajša od olja so usta njena.

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

⁴Ali njen konec je grenek kakor pelin, oster kakor dvorezen meč.

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

⁵Noge njene gredo v smrt, v kraj mrtvih držé stopinje njene.

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

⁶Še mar ji ni, da bi krenila na pot življenja; po krivih stezah hodi, a ne ve tega.

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

⁷Sedaj torej, sinovi, poslušajte me in ne odstopajte od besed mojih ust.

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

⁸Daleč od nje hodi svojo pot in ne bližaj se durim hiše njene,

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

⁹da ne bi dal drugim dike svoje in let svojih grozovitniku;

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

¹⁰da ne bi se sitili tujci s premoženjem tvojim in trudi tvoji ostali v hiši inostranca.

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

¹¹In ne bi zdihoval ob koncu svojem, ko se ti posuši meso in telo,

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

¹²in govoril: „Kako sem sovražil pouk in svarjenje je zametalo srce moje!

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

¹³Poslušal nisem glasú učiteljev svojih, ne ušesa svojega nagibal k njim, ki so me učili.

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

¹⁴Skoraj da nisem obtičal v vsej nesreči sredi zbora in občine!“

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

¹⁵Pij vodo iz lastnega vodnjaka in kar ti priteka iz tvojega studenca!

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

¹⁶Ali naj se ven razlivajo viri tvoji, po ulicah tvoji potoki?

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

¹⁷Imej jih sam zase, a ne za tujce s seboj vred.

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

¹⁸Blagoslovljen bodi vrelec tvoj in veseli se žene mladosti svoje,

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.

¹⁹košute predrage, gazele drežestne –! prsi njene naj te mamijo vsak čas, vedno hodi zamaknjen v njeno ljubezen!

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

²⁰Ker zakaj bi taval, sin moj, s tujko in bi objemal prsi tuje ženske?

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

²¹Kajti pred očmi GOSPODOVIMI so pota vsakega in on meri vse steze njegove.

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

²²Brezbožnika ujamejo krivice njegove in vrvi greha njegovega ga bodo držale.Umre, ker mu nedostaje pouka, in v obilosti nespameti svoje bo blodil.

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

²³Umre, ker mu nedostaje pouka, in v obilosti nespameti svoje bo blodil.