我儿，你若领受我的言语，将我的诫命珍藏在你里面，
My son, if you receive my words / And treasure up my commandments within you,

侧耳听智慧，倾心求聪明；
Making your ear attentive to wisdom / And inclining your heart to understanding;

你若呼求明哲，扬声求聪明，
Indeed, if you cry out for discernment / And lift up your voice for understanding;

寻找她，如寻找银子，搜求她，如搜求隐藏的珍宝，
If you seek her like silver / And search for her like hidden treasures,

你就明白如何敬畏耶和华，得以认识神。
Then you will understand the fear of Jehovah / And find the knowledge of God.

因为耶和华赐人智慧；知识和聪明都由祂口而出；
For Jehovah gives wisdom; / From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;

祂给正直人积存真智慧，给行为纯全的人作盾牌，
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; / He is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

保守公平的途径，护庇虔诚人的道路。
Guarding the paths of justice / And keeping the way of His faithful ones.

你就必明白公义、公平、公正，和一切善美的途径。
Then you will understand righteousness and justice / And equity, indeed, every good path.

智慧必进入你心，你魂必喜悦知识；
For wisdom will enter your heart, / And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

谋略必护卫你；聪明必保守你：
Discretion will watch over you; / Understanding will keep you:

救你脱离邪恶的道路，脱离说乖谬话的人。
To deliver you from the way of evil, / From the man who speaks perverse things,

那等人舍弃正直的途径，行走黑暗的道路，
From those who forsake the paths of uprightness / To walk in the ways of darkness,

喜悦作恶，欢喜恶人的乖僻，
Who rejoice in doing evil / And delight in the perverseness of evil,

他们的途径弯曲，他们的道路偏岔。
Whose paths are crooked, / And who are devious in their ways;

智慧要救你脱离淫妇，就是那油嘴滑舌的外女；
To deliver you from the strange woman, / From the adulteress who flatters with her words,

她离弃少年的同伴，忘了神的盟约；
Who forsakes the companion of her youth / And forgets the covenant of her God;

她的家陷入死亡，她的路引向阴间。
For her house sinks down to death, / And her paths lead to the dead;

凡到她那里去的，不得转回，也得不着生命的途径。
None who go to her ever return, / Nor do they attain to the paths of life;

智慧必使你行善人的道路，守义人的途径。
That you may walk in the way of good men / And keep the paths of the righteous;

因为正直人必在地上居住；完全人必在其上存留。
For the upright will dwell in the land, / And the perfect will remain in it;

惟有恶人必从地上剪除，奸诈的必从其上拔出。
But the wicked will be cut off from the land, / And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.