| | 1 | 我儿，要留心我智慧的话语，侧耳听我聪明的言词。
My son, pay attention to my wisdom, listen well to my words of insight, | |
| | 2 | 为要使你谨守谋略，嘴唇保存知识。
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge. | |
| | 3 | 因为淫妇的嘴滴下蜂蜜，她的口比油更滑。
For the lips of an adulteress drip honey, and her speech is smoother than oil; | |
| | 4 | 至终却苦似茵陈，快如两刃的刀。
but in the end she is bitter as gall, sharp as a double-edged sword. | |
| | 5 | 她的脚，下入死地。她脚步，踏住阴间。
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to the grave. | |
| | 6 | 以致她找不着生命平坦的道。她的路变迁不定，自己还不知道。
She gives no thought to the way of life; her paths are crooked, but she knows it not. | |
| | 7 | 众子阿，现在要听从我，不可离弃我口中的话。
Now then, my sons, listen to me; do not turn aside from what I say. | |
| | 8 | 你所行的道要离她远，不可就近她的房门。
Keep to a path far from her, do not go near the door of her house, | |
| | 9 | 恐怕将你的尊荣给别人，将你的岁月给残忍的人。
lest you give your best strength to others and your years to one who is cruel, | |
| | 10 | 恐怕外人满得你的力量，你劳碌得来的，归入外人的家。
lest strangers feast on your wealth and your toil enrich another man's house. | |
| | 11 | 终久你皮肉和身体消毁，你就悲叹，
At the end of your life you will groan, when your flesh and body are spent. | |
| | 12 | 说，我怎么恨恶训诲，心中藐视责备，
You will say, "How I hated discipline! How my heart spurned correction! | |
| | 13 | 也不听从我师傅的话，又不侧耳听那教训我的人。
I would not obey my teachers or listen to my instructors. | |
| | 14 | 我在圣会里，几乎落在诸般恶中。
I have come to the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly." | |
| | 15 | 你要喝自己池中的水，饮自己井里的活水。
Drink water from your own cistern, running water from your own well. | |
| | 16 | 你的泉源岂可涨溢在外。你的河水岂可流在街上。
Should your springs overflow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares? | |
| | 17 | 惟独归你一人，不可与外人同用。
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers. | |
| | 18 | 要使你的泉源蒙福。要喜悦你幼年所娶的妻。
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth. | |
| | 19 | 他如可爱的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿。愿他的胸怀，使你时时知足。他的爱情，使你常常恋慕。
A loving doe, a graceful deer--may her breasts satisfy you always, may you ever be captivated by her love. | |
| | 20 | 我儿，你为何恋慕淫妇，为何抱外女的胸怀。
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress? Why embrace the bosom of another man's wife? | |
| | 21 | 因为人所行的道，都在耶和华眼前。他也修平人一切的路。
For a man's ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all his paths. | |
| | 22 | 恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住。他必被自己的罪恶如绳索缠绕。
The evil deeds of a wicked man ensnare him; the cords of his sin hold him fast. | |
| | 23 | 他因不受训诲，就必死亡。又因愚昧过甚，必走差了路。
He will die for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly. | |
