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

¹Ka tapa, ka thute kemin, na kiangah ka thupiakte khol khawm in;

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

²Ka thupiakte kem inla hing in; huan ka dan na mit tang bangin

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

³Na khutzungte tungah vial inla; na lungtang suangpek tungah gelh in.

⁴Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister, and call intelligence [thy] kinswoman:

⁴Pilna kiangah, ka sanggamnu na hi, chiin la, huan theihsiamna na tanaunu chiin:

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

⁵Numei lamdang akipan nang a honkep theihna ding un, a thutea maitangphatnu mikhual akipan.

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

⁶Ka in tohlet ah ka tohletkhakna ah ka en paisuaka;

⁷and I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the sons, a young man void of understanding,

⁷Huan mi mawlte lakah ka ena, tuailaite lakah ka theikaka, tangval theihsiamna beipa,

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

⁸A omnaning china kongzinga paisuaka, a in lam juana pai jelpa;

⁹in the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.

⁹Khomuiin, ni nitaklamin, jan mial bibek leh khomial ah.

¹⁰And behold, there met him a woman in the attire of a harlot, and subtle of heart.

¹⁰Huan, ngaiin, numei khat, kijuak puansilh silh, lungtang kivain a nakituahpiha.

¹¹She is clamorous and unmanageable; her feet abide not in her house:

¹¹Amah ahi lawlawa, a tum tuntuna; a khe a in ah a om gige kei:

¹²now without, now in the broadways, -- and she lieth in wait at every corner.

¹²Konhzinga om ton a oma, mun liantea a om ton a oma, ning chiteng a buk jel hi.

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

¹³Huchiin aman a manta, amah a tawpta, huan zummoh maitang tohin a kiangah:

¹⁴I have peace-offerings with me; this day have I paid my vows:

¹⁴Lemna kithoihnate ka kiangah a om; tuiin ka thuchiamte ka peta hi,

¹⁵therefore came I forth to meet thee, to seek earnestly thy face, and I have found thee.

¹⁵Huaijiakin nang tuak dingin ka hongpai khiaa, na mel thanuamtaka zong dingin, ka honmuta hi,

¹⁶I have decked my bed with tapestry coverlets of variegated linen from Egypt;

¹⁶Ka tutna nuam pialkhang phah ze hoihtea zep, ka phah khinta, Aigupta khau puan gialte toh.

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

¹⁷Ka lupna murra, aloe, leh sinamonin ka namtui sakta.

¹⁸Come, let us revel in love until the morning, let us delight ourselves with loves.

¹⁸Hongpai in, jingsang matan I itna dimset I la ding; itnain I kilungmuan tuah ding.

¹⁹For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

¹⁹Ka pasal lah in ah a om ngal keia, khual gamla ah a zin hi:

²⁰he hath taken the money-bag with him, he will come home on the day of the full moon.

²⁰Sum ip a kitawia; kha a lik chiangin in ah a hongpai ding, a chi a.

²¹With her much enticement she beguiled him; with the smoothness of her lips she constrained him.

²¹A thugen siamnain amah a kipe sakta, a muka maitangphatnatein amah a sawlmang ta hi.

²²He went after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, and as stocks [serve] for the correction of the fool;

²²Amah a jui paha, goh dinga bawngtal a pai bangin, hiam mihai bawlhoihna dia sikkhau khihmi bangin;

²³till an arrow strike through his liver: as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for its life.

²³Thalin a sin a kap pailet tan; tang lama vasa a kintat bangin, huan huai tuh a hinna gun a hih a theikei hi.

²⁴And now, ye sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

²⁴Tuin, ka tapate, huaijiakin honngaikhia un, ka kama thute limsak un.

²⁵Let not thy heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths:

²⁵Na lungtang amah lampi lam ah awn kei henla, lampite lamah pai mang kei hen.

²⁶for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.

²⁶Amah lah tampi liamsain a pailumlettaa: ahi, a thahsate mi hat tampi ahi uh.A in Seol zotna lampi ahi, sihna dantante juana suk pai.

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

²⁷A in Seol zotna lampi ahi, sihna dantante juana suk pai.