¹My son, pay attention to my wisdom. Turn your ear to my understanding:

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

²that you may maintain discretion, that your lips may preserve knowledge.

²da obdržiš premišljenost in ustne tvoje ohranijo spoznanje.

³For the lips of an adulteress drip honey. Her mouth is smoother than oil,

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

⁴But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as 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 lead straight to Sheol Sheol is the place of the dead. .

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

⁶She gives no thought to the way of life. Her ways are crooked, and she doesn’t know it.

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

⁷Now therefore, my sons, listen to me. Don’t depart from the words of my mouth.

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

⁸Remove your way far from her. Don’t come near the door of her house,

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

⁹lest you give your honor to others, and your years to the cruel one;

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

¹⁰lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man’s house.

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

¹¹You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

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

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

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

¹³neither have I obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor turned my ear to those who instructed me!

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

¹⁴I have come to the brink of utter ruin, in the midst of the gathered assembly.”

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

¹⁵Drink water out of your own cistern, running water out of your own well.

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

¹⁶Should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares?

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

¹⁷Let them be for yourself alone, not for strangers with you.

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

¹⁸Let your spring be blessed. Rejoice in the wife of your youth.

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

¹⁹A loving doe and a graceful deer— let her breasts satisfy you at all times. Be captivated always with her love.

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

²⁰For why should you, my son, be captivated with an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another?

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

²¹For the ways of man are before the eyes of Yahweh. He examines all his paths.

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

²²The evil deeds of the wicked ensnare him. The cords of his sin hold him firmly.

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

²³He will die for lack of instruction. In the greatness of his folly, he will go astray.

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