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

¹Sin moj, pazi na besede moje in zapovedi moje hrani pri sebi.

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

²Pazi na zapovedi moje in žívi, pazi na nauk moj kakor na zenico svojih oči.

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

³Priveži si jih na prste, zapiši jih na srca svojega ploščo.

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

⁴Reci modrosti: sestra si moja! in razumnost imenuj sorodnico svojo:

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

⁵da te varuje žene vnanje, tujke, ki se dobrika z gladkimi besedami.

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

⁶Kajti skozi okno hiše svoje, preko omrežja svojega gledajoč,

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

⁷sem videl med abotnimi, zazrl med sinovi brezumnega mladeniča,

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

⁸ki se je po ulicah klatil, blizu njenega vogla, stopal po potu do hiše njene,

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

⁹v mraku, na večer dneva, v noči črni in temni.

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

¹⁰In glej, ženska mu pride naproti, v kurbji opravi in odrevenelega srca.

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

¹¹Jezična je in trdovratna, v njeni hiši ne bivajo noge njene;

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

¹²zdaj se klati po ulicah, zdaj po trgih in pri vsakem voglu zalezuje.

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

¹³In ga prime ter ga poljubi in s predrznim licem mu reče:

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

¹⁴Hvalne daritve sem bila dolžna, danes sem opravila obljube svoje.

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

¹⁵Zato sem ti prišla naproti, hrepeneč po obličju tvojem, in sem te našla.

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

¹⁶S preprogami sem prestrla posteljo svojo, s pisanimi odejami iz platna egiptovskega;

¹⁷pokadila sem ležišče svoje z miro, aloo in cimetom.

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

¹⁸Dej, radujva se obilo v ljubezni prav do jutra, oslajujva se z ljubkovanjem!

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

¹⁹Kajti moža ni v hiši, odšel je na daljni pot;

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

²⁰mošnjo denarja je vzel s seboj, povrne se domov šele ob ščipu.

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

²¹Nagnila ga je z mnogim pregovarjanjem svojim, s prilizovanjem ust svojih ga je potegnila:

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

²²za njo gre takoj, kakor gre vol v klalnico in kakor neumnež v kazen v okovih –

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

²³dokler mu pšica jeter ne razkolje; kakor ptič hiti v zanko, ne vedoč, da je zoper življenje njegovo.

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

²⁴Zato sedaj, sinovi, poslušajte me in pazite na ust mojih besede!

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

²⁵Ne kreni na njena pota srce tvoje, ne zavij na steze njene.

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

²⁶Ker mnogo jih je prebodla in na tla zvrnila, in veliko jih je, katere je vse pomorila.Hiša njena je pot v kraj mrtvih, gredoča doli v smrtne hrame.

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

²⁷Hiša njena je pot v kraj mrtvih, gredoča doli v smrtne hrame.