1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching:
2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.
3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil;
4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;
5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld;
6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge.
7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.
8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house;
9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men:
10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;
11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted;
12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training;
13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me!
14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.
15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain.
16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.
17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you.
18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years.
19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love.
20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms?
21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales.
22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.
23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way.
1 我儿， 要留心听我的智慧， 侧耳听我的哲理，
2 好让你持守明辨的态度， 你的嘴唇谨守知识。
3 因为淫妇的嘴唇滴下蜂蜜， 她的口比油更滑；
4 至终却苦似苦菫， 快如两刃的剑。
5 她的脚走下死地， 她的脚步踏向阴间。
6 她不理会生命之路， 她的路径变迁无定， 自己也不知道。
7 孩子们， 现在要听从我， 不可离弃我口中的话。
8 你的道路要远离她， 不可走近她的家门；
9 免得你的精力给了别人， 你的年日交给了残忍的人；
10 免得外人饱享你的财物， 你劳碌得来的归入别人的家。
11 在你生命终结， 你的肉体和身躯衰残的时候， 你就悲叹，
12 说： "我为什么恨恶管教， 我的心为什么轻视责备，
13 不听从我老师的话， 也不留心听那些教导我的人。
14 在众民的集会中， 我几乎落在万劫不复之地。"
15 你要喝自己池中的水， 饮自己井里的活水。
16 你的泉源怎么可以外溢？你的河水怎么可以流在街上？
17 它们要独归你一人所有， 不要让外人与你共享。
18 要使你的泉源蒙福， 要喜悦你年轻时所娶的妻子。
19 她像可爱的母鹿， 人所喜悦的母山羊， 愿她的乳房时常使你满足， 愿她的爱情常常使你恋慕。
20 我儿， 为什么恋慕淫妇？为什么拥抱妓女的胸怀呢？
21 因为人的道路都在耶和华眼前， 他也审察人的一切路径。
22 恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住， 他必被自己罪恶的绳索缠住。
23 他必因不受管教而死亡， 又因自己过分愚妄而走进歧途。