1 My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
3 Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
5 So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
6 Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
7 I saw among the young men one without sense,
8 Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
9 At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
10 And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
11 She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
12 Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
13 So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
14 I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
15 So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
18 Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
19 For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
20 He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
21 With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
22 The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
23 Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
24 So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;
25 Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
26 For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
27 Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.
1 我儿， 要遵守我的话， 把我的诫命珍藏在心里；
2 遵守我的诫命， 你就可以存活； 遵守我的训诲， 好像护卫你眼中的瞳人。
3 要把它们系在你的指头上， 刻在你的心版上。
4 要对智慧说： "你是我的姊妹"， 要称呼聪明为亲人；
5 这样行就可以保护你脱离淫乱的妇人， 脱离说谄媚话的妓女。
6 我在我家的窗户内， 透过窗棂往外观看，
7 看见在愚蒙人中间， 在少年人（"少年人"原文作"众子"）里面， 我发觉有一个无知的少年人，
8 在街上经过， 走近淫妇的住处， 向着她的家走去，
9 那时是黄昏、傍晚， 是在夜里， 天黑的时候。
10 看哪！ 有一个妇人来迎接他， 是妓女的打扮， 心存诡诈。
11 这妇人喧哗不停， 不受约束； 她在家里停不住脚。
12 她有时在街上， 有时在广场上， 或在任何角落旁边藏伏。
13 她紧拉着那少年人， 和他亲嘴， 厚颜无耻地对他说：
14 "我曾许愿要献平安祭， 今天我刚还了我所许的愿。
15 因此， 我出来迎接你， 切切寻找你， 终于找到你。
16 我已用毯子， 埃及线织成的花纹布， 铺了我的床；
17 又用没药、沉香和桂皮， 熏了我的榻。
18 来吧！ 我们来饱享爱情， 直到天亮， 我们来在爱中尽情享乐。
19 因为我丈夫不在家， 远行去了。
20 他手里带着钱袋， 要到月圆的时候才回家。"
21 淫妇用许多花言巧语引诱他， 用谄媚的嘴唇勾引他。
22 少年人就立刻跟随她， 好像牛走向屠房， 又像愚妄人带着锁链去受刑罚，
23 直到箭矢射透他的肝； 他仿佛飞鸟投入网罗， 并不知道会丧失性命。
24 孩子们， 现在你们要听从我， 留心听我口中的话。
25 你的心不可偏向淫妇的道路， 也不要迷恋她的路径。
26 因为她使许多人倒毙， 被她杀害的实在无数。
27 她的家是通往阴间的路， 是下到死亡的宫房。