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

¹Môj synu, ostríhaj moje reči a moje prikázania schovaj u seba.

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

²Ostríhaj moje prikázania a ži a naučenie môjho zákona ostríhaj ako zrenicu svojho oka.

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

³Priviaž si ich na svoje prsty; napíš si ich na tabuľu svojho srdca.

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

⁴Povedz múdrosti: Ty si moja sestra, a známou priateľkou pomenuj rozumnosť,

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

⁵aby ťa chránily od cudzej ženy, od cudzozemky, ktorá lichotí svojimi hladkými rečami.

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

⁶Lebo som vyzeral oknom svojho domu, cez svoju mrežu,

⁷I saw among the simple ones. I discerned among the youths a young man void of understanding,

⁷a videl som medzi hlúpymi, rozoznal som medzi synmi mládenca bez rozumu,

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

⁸ktorý išiel ulicou vedľa jej uhla a kráčal cestou k jej domu,

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

⁹na mraku, večerom dňa, v hustej tme noci a mrákavy.

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

¹⁰A hľa, nejaká žena vyšla proti nemu, v odeve smilnice, opatrného srdca chytrého;

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

¹¹štebotná bola a opovážlivá, ktorej nohy nebývajú v jej dome.

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

¹²Hneď vonku pred domom hneď na uliciach a pri každom uhle strojí úklady.

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

¹³A chopila sa ho a bozkala ho; odvrhla stud a riekla mu:

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

¹⁴Pokojné obeti sú u mňa; dnes som splnila svoje sľuby;

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

¹⁵preto som ti vyšla vústrety hľadajúc pilne tvoju tvár a našla som ťa.

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

¹⁶Vystrela som svoju posteľ kobercami, pestrými rúchami z egyptských nití.

¹⁷Napustila som svoju ložu myrrou, aloem a škoricou.

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

¹⁸Poď, opájajme sa ľúbosťou až do rána a kochajme sa v milovaní.

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

¹⁹Lebo muž nie je doma; odišiel na ďalekú cestu.

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

²⁰Vzal mešec peňazí so sebou; prijde domov až na deň, keď bude mesiac v splne.

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

²¹Naklonila ho svojím mnohým umením; zvábila ho hladkosťou svojich rtov.

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

²²Išiel hneď za ňou, jako ide vôl na zabitie a jako blázon v putách, aby bol káznený,

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

²³až prenikla strela jeho jatra; ponáhľal sa, jako sa ponáhľa vtáča do osídla a nevie, že tam ide o jeho život.

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

²⁴A tak teraz, synovia, počúvajte na mňa a pozorujte ušima na reči mojich úst.

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

²⁵Nech sa neuchýli tvoje srdce na jej cesty, a neblúď po jej chodníkoch.

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

²⁶Lebo je mnoho pobitých, ktorých porazila, a mocných, ktorých všetkých povraždila.

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

²⁷Jej dom je cestami do pekla, ktoré sostupujú do komôr smrti.