¹My son, keep my words. Lay up my commandments within you.

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

²Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.

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

³Bind them on your fingers. Write them on the tablet of your heart.

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

⁴Tell wisdom, “You are my sister.” Call understanding your relative,

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

⁵that they may keep you from the strange woman, from the foreigner who flatters with her words.

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

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

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

⁷I saw 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, 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 of the day, in the middle of the night and in the darkness.

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

¹⁰Behold, there a woman met him with the attire of a prostitute, and with crafty intent.

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

¹¹She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.

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

¹²Now she is in the streets, now in the squares, and lurking at every corner.

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

¹³So she caught him, and kissed him. With an impudent face she said to him:

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

¹⁴“Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me. This day I have paid my vows.

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

¹⁵Therefore I came out to meet you, to diligently seek your face, and I have found you.

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

¹⁶I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.

¹⁶Svoju sam postelju nastrla sagovima, vezenim pokrivačima misirskim;

¹⁷svoj sam krevet namirisala smirnom, alojem i cimetom.

¹⁸Come, let’s take our fill of loving until the morning. Let’s solace ourselves with loving.

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

¹⁹For my husband isn’t at home. He has gone on a long journey.

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

²⁰He has taken a bag of money with him. He will come home at the full moon.”

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

²¹With persuasive words, she led him astray. With the flattering of her lips, she seduced him.

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

²²He followed her immediately, as an ox goes to the slaughter, as a fool stepping into a noose.

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

²³Until an arrow strikes through his liver, as a bird hurries to the snare, and doesn’t know that it will cost his life.

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

²⁴Now therefore, sons, listen to me. Pay attention to the words of my mouth.

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

²⁵Don’t let your heart turn to her ways. Don’t go astray in her paths,

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

²⁶for she has thrown down many wounded. Yes, all her slain are a mighty army.

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

²⁷Her house is the way to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. , going down to the rooms of death.

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