| | 1 | 我儿，你若领受我的言语，存记我的命令，
My son, if you accept my words and store up my commands within you, | |
| | 2 | 侧耳听智慧，专心求聪明。
turning your ear to wisdom and applying your heart to understanding, | |
| | 3 | 呼求明哲，扬声求聪明，
and if you call out for insight and cry aloud for understanding, | |
| | 4 | 寻找他如寻找银子，搜求他如搜求隐藏的珍宝，
and if you look for it as for silver and search for it as for hidden treasure, | |
| | 5 | 你就明白敬畏耶和华，得以认识神。
then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God. | |
| | 6 | 因为耶和华赐人智慧。知识和聪明，都由他口而出。
For the LORD gives wisdom, and from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. | |
| | 7 | 他给正直人存留真智慧，给行为纯正的人作盾牌。
He holds victory in store for the upright, he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless, | |
| | 8 | 为要保守公平人的路，护庇虔敬人的道。
for he guards the course of the just and protects the way of his faithful ones. | |
| | 9 | 你也必明白仁义，公平，正直，一切的善道。
Then you will understand what is right and just and fair--every good path. | |
| | 10 | 智慧必入你心。你的灵要以知识为美。
For wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. | |
| | 11 | 谋略必护卫你。聪明必保守你。
Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you. | |
| | 12 | 要救你脱离恶道，（恶道或作恶人的道）脱离说乖谬话的人。
Wisdom will save you from the ways of wicked men, from men whose words are perverse, | |
| | 13 | 那等人舍弃正直的路，行走黑暗的道，
who leave the straight paths to walk in dark ways, | |
| | 14 | 欢喜作恶，喜爱恶人的乖僻。
who delight in doing wrong and rejoice in the perverseness of evil, | |
| | 15 | 在他们的道中弯曲，在他们的路上偏僻。
whose paths are crooked and who are devious in their ways. | |
| | 16 | 智慧要救你脱离淫妇，就是那油嘴滑舌的外女。
It will save you also from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words, | |
| | 17 | 她离弃幼年的配偶，忘了神的盟约。
who has left the partner of her youth and ignored the covenant she made before God. | |
| | 18 | 她的家陷入死地，她的路偏向阴间。
For her house leads down to death and her paths to the spirits of the dead. | |
| | 19 | 凡到她那里去的不得转回，也得不着生命的路。
None who go to her return or attain the paths of life. | |
| | 20 | 智慧必使你行善人的道，守义人的路。
Thus you will walk in the ways of good men and keep to the paths of the righteous. | |
| | 21 | 正直人必在世上居住。完全人必在地上存留。
For the upright will live in the land, and the blameless will remain in it; | |
| | 22 | 惟有恶人必然剪除。奸诈的必然拔出。
but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful will be torn from it. | |
