My son, be attentive to my wisdom; / Incline your ear to my understanding,
我儿，要留心听我的智慧，侧耳听我的聪明，

That you may keep discretion, / And your lips may guard knowledge.
为要使你谨守谋略，嘴唇护卫知识。

For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, / And her mouth is smoother than oil;
因为淫妇的嘴滴下蜂蜜，她的口比油更滑；

But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, / Sharp as a two-edged sword.
至终她却苦似茵陈，快如两刃的刀。

Her feet go down to death; / Her steps hold fast to Sheol.
她的脚下入死地；她的脚步迈向阴间。

She does not make straight the path of life: / Her ways wander, and she does not know it.
她不走生命平坦的途径；她所行的变迁不定，自己却不知道。

And now, my sons, listen to me, / And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
众子啊，现在要听从我，不可离弃我口中的话。

Keep your way far from her, / And do not go near the door of her house;
你所行的路要离她远，不可就近她的房门；

Lest you give your honor to others, / And your years to the cruel;
免得将你的尊荣给了别人，将你的岁月给了残忍的人；

Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, / And your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
免得别人满得你的资财，你劳碌得来的归入外人的家；

And you mourn at your end, / When your flesh and your body are consumed,
终久，你的皮肉和身体销毁，你就悲叹，

And you say, How I have hated instruction, / And my heart has despised reproof!
说，我怎么恨恶训诲，我的心怎么藐视责备！

And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers / Nor inclined my ear to my instructors;
也不听从我教师的话，又不侧耳听那教导我的人；

I was almost into every evil / In the midst of the congregation and assembly.
我在会众和大会里，几乎落在诸般的恶中。

Drink waters out of your own cistern, / And running water out of your own well.
你要喝自己池中的水，饮自己井里流动的水。

Should your springs be shed forth, / Like streams of water in the streets?
你的泉源岂可涨溢在外，如同溪水流在街上？

Let them be yours alone, / And not for strangers with you.
这水惟独归你一人，不可与别人同用。

Let your fountain be blessed, / And rejoice in the wife of your youth,
要使你的泉源蒙福；要喜悦你少年所娶的妻，

A lovely hind and a graceful doe. / Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. / May you be ravished with her love always.
她如可爱的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿；愿她的胸怀使你时时满足，她的爱情使你常常迷恋。

For why should you be ravished, my son, with a strange woman / And embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
我儿，你为何迷恋淫妇？为何抱外女的胸怀？

For the ways of a man are before the eyes of Jehovah, / And He ponders all his paths.
因为人的道路都在耶和华眼前，祂也考量人一切的途径。

The wicked man is taken by his own iniquities, / And he is held fast by the cords of his own sin.
恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住，他必被自己罪恶的绳索缠绕。

He will die for lack of instruction, / And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
他因不受训诲就必死亡，又因愚妄过甚，必走迷了路。