1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. 2 Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye. 3 Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart. 4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman: 5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
6 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement, 7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding, 8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house, 9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night: 10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart. 11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house: 12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.) 13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him, 14 I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows. 15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee. 16 I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt. 17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. 18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves. 19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey: 20 He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed. 21 With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him. 22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks; 23 Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
24 Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth. 25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths. 26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her. 27 Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers 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。