1 My son, if you have made yourself responsible for your neighbour, or given your word for another,
2 You are taken as in a net by the words of your mouth, the sayings of your lips have overcome you.
3 Do this, my son, and make yourself free, because you have come into the power of your neighbour; go without waiting, and make a strong request to your neighbour.
4 Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;
5 Make yourself free, like the roe from the hand of the archer, and the bird from him who puts a net for her.
6 Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:
7 Having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 She gets her meat in the summer, storing up food at the time of the grain-cutting.
9 How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?
10 A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:
11 Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man
12 A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;
13 Making signs with his eyes, rubbing with his feet, and giving news with his fingers;
14 His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.
15 For this cause his downfall will be sudden; quickly he will be broken, and there will be no help for him.
16 Six things are hated by the Lord; seven things are disgusting to him:
17 Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;
18 A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;
19 A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.
20 My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:
21 Keep them ever folded in your heart, and have them hanging round your neck.
22 In your walking, it will be your guide; when you are sleeping, it will keep watch over you; when you are awake, it will have talk with you.
23 For the rule is a light, and the teaching a shining light; and the guiding words of training are the way of life.
24 They will keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the strange woman.
25 Let not your heart's desire go after her fair body; let not her eyes take you prisoner.
26 For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.
27 May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?
28 Or may one go on lighted coals, and his feet not be burned?
29 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbour's wife; he who has anything to do with her will not go free from punishment.
30 Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:
31 But if he is taken in the act he will have to give back seven times as much, giving up all his property which is in his house.
32 He who takes another man's wife is without all sense: he who does it is the cause of destruction to his soul.
33 Wounds will be his and loss of honour, and his shame may not be washed away.
34 For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.
35 He will not take any payment; and he will not make peace with you though your money offerings are increased.
1 我儿， 如果你作朋友的保证人， 替外人击掌担保；
2 如果你给自己口里的话缠累， 给你口里的话绑住；
3 我儿， 既然你落在你朋友的手中， 就要这样行， 好解救你自己， 你要自己降卑， 去恳求你的朋友。
4 不要让你的眼睛睡觉， 不要容你的眼睑打盹；
5 要解救自己， 像羚羊脱离猎人的手， 像飞鸟脱离捕鸟人的手。
6 懒惰人哪！ 你去看看蚂蚁， 察看它们所行的， 就可得着智慧。
7 蚂蚁没有元帅， 没有官长， 也没有统治者，
8 尚且在夏天预备食物， 在收割的时候积聚粮食。
9 懒惰人哪， 你要睡到几时呢？你什么时候才睡醒呢？
10 再睡片时， 打盹片时， 抱着手躺卧片时，
11 你的贫穷就必像强盗来到， 你的缺乏就必像拿兵器的人来到。
12 无赖汉、坏人到处使用欺诈的口；
13 他以眼传神， 用脚示意， 用指头指点，
14 心存乖谬， 图谋恶事， 常常散布纷争。
15 因此， 灾难必忽然临到， 他必突然毁灭， 无法挽救。
16 耶和华恨恶的事有六样， 连他心里厌恶的， 共有七样，
17 就是高傲的眼、说谎的舌头、流无辜人血的手、
18 图谋恶事的心、快跑行恶的脚、
19 说谎的假证人， 和在弟兄中散布纷争的人。
20 我儿， 要谨守你父亲的诫命， 不可离弃你母亲的训诲。
21 要把它们常常系在你的心上， 绑在你的颈项上。
22 你行走的时候， 它们必引导你； 你睡觉的时候， 它们必保护你； 你醒来的时候， 它们必和你交谈。
23 因为诫命是灯， 训诲是光， 出于管教的责备是生命之道，
24 能保护你远离邪恶的女人， 远离妓女谄媚的舌头。
25 你心里不要贪恋她的美色， 也不要给她的媚眼勾引。
26 因为妓女使人只剩一块饼， 通奸的妇人猎取人宝贵的生命。
27 如果人把火藏在怀里， 他的衣服怎能不烧着呢？
28 如果人在火炭上行走， 他的脚怎能不灼伤呢？
29 凡是和别人的妻子通奸的， 也是这样； 凡是亲近她的， 都必不免受罚。
30 盗贼因饥饿偷窃充饥， 人不会鄙视他。
31 但如果他被捉住， 就要七倍偿还， 要把他家里所有的财物都交出来。
32 和妇人通奸的， 实在无知； 行这事的， 是自我毁灭。
33 他必遭受击打， 被凌辱， 他的耻辱永不能涂抹。
34 因为嫉妒激起了丈夫的烈怒， 使他在报仇的时候， 必不留情。
35 任何赔偿， 他都不接受， 纵使你馈送许多礼物， 他也不肯罢休。