1 My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;
2 So that your ear gives attention to wisdom, and your heart is turned to knowledge;
3 Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;
4 If you are looking for her as for silver, and searching for her as for stored-up wealth;
5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
6 For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:
7 He has salvation stored up for the upright, he is a breastplate to those in whom there is no evil;
8 He keeps watch on the ways which are right, and takes care of those who have the fear of him.
9 Then you will have knowledge of righteousness and right acting, and upright behaviour, even of every good way.
10 For wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasing to your soul;
11 Wise purposes will be watching over you, and knowledge will keep you;
12 Giving you salvation from the evil man, from those whose words are false;
13 Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;
14 Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;
15 Whose ways are not straight, and whose footsteps are turned to evil:
16 To take you out of the power of the strange woman, who says smooth words with her tongue;
17 Who is false to the husband of her early years, and does not keep the agreement of her God in mind:
18 For her house is on the way down to death; her footsteps go down to the shades:
19 Those who go to her do not come back again; their feet do not keep in the ways of life:
20 So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.
21 For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.
22 But sinners will be cut off from the land, and those whose acts are false will be uprooted.
1 我儿， 如果你接受我的话， 把我的诫命珍藏在心里，
2 留心听智慧， 致力求聪明；
3 如果你为求哲理而呼喊， 为求聪明而扬声；
4 如果你寻找它如同寻找银子， 搜寻它好像搜寻宝藏；
5 你就明白怎样敬畏耶和华， 并且获得对 神的认识。
6 因为耶和华赐人智慧， 知识和聪明都出自他的口。
7 他为正直人珍藏大智慧， 给行为完全的人作盾牌；
8 为要看顾正直人的路径， 护卫虔诚人的道路。
9 这样， 你就明白公义、公正、正直， 以及一切善道。
10 智慧必进入你的心， 知识必使你欢悦。
11 明辨的能力必护卫你， 聪明必看顾你；
12 要救你脱离邪恶的道路， 脱离说话乖谬的人。
13 那些人离弃正道， 走上黑暗的道路。
14 他们喜欢行恶， 喜悦恶人的乖谬。
15 他们的道路弯曲， 他们的行径偏离正道。
16 智慧要救你脱离淫乱的妇人， 脱离说谄媚话的妓女（"妓女"原文作"外国女子"）。
17 她离弃年轻的配偶， 忘记了 神的约；
18 她的家陷入死地， 她的路径下落阴间。
19 凡是进到她那里去的， 都不能转回， 必得不着生路。
20 因此， 智慧必使你走在良善人的道上， 持守义人的路。
21 因为正直人必在地上安居， 完全人必在世上存留；
22 但恶人必从地上除灭， 行事奸诈的必从世上拔除。