箴言 5
1 我儿，要留心我智慧的话语， 侧耳听我聪明的言词，
My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ear to my insight,
2 为要使你谨守谋略， 嘴唇保存知识。
that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.
3 因为淫妇的嘴滴下蜂蜜； 她的口比油更滑，
Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,
4 至终却苦似茵 ， 快如两刃的刀。
in the end she is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a double-edged sword.
Her feet go down to death; her steps lead straight to Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
6 以致她找不着生命平坦的道。 她的路变迁不定， 自己还不知道。
She does not consider the path of life; she does not know that her ways are unstable.
7 众子啊，现在要听从我； 不可离弃我口中的话。
So now, my sons, listen to me, and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.
8 你所行的道要离她远， 不可就近她的房门，
Keep your path far from her; do not go near the door of her house,
9 恐怕将你的尊荣给别人， 将你的岁月给残忍的人；
lest you concede your vigor to others, and your years to one who is cruel;
10 恐怕外人满得你的力量， 你劳碌得来的，归入外人的家；
lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.
11 终久，你皮肉和身体消毁， 你就悲叹，
At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,
12 说：我怎么恨恶训诲， 心中藐视责备，
and you will say, “How I hated discipline, and my heart despised reproof!
13 也不听从我师傅的话， 又不侧耳听那教训我的人？
I did not listen to the voice of my teachers or incline my ear to my mentors.
14 我在圣会里， 几乎落在诸般恶中。
I am on the brink of utter ruin in the midst of the whole assembly.”
15 你要喝自己池中的水， 饮自己井里的活水。
Drink water from your own cistern, and running water from your own well.
16 你的泉源岂可涨溢在外？ 你的河水岂可流在街上？
Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?
17 惟独归你一人， 不可与外人同用。
Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.
18 要使你的泉源蒙福； 要喜悦你幼年所娶的妻。
May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:
19 她如可爱的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿； 愿她的胸怀使你时时知足， 她的爱情使你常常恋慕。
A loving doe, a graceful fawn— may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivated by her love forever.
20 我儿，你为何恋慕淫妇？ 为何抱外女的胸怀？
Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress, or embrace the bosom of a stranger?
21 因为，人所行的道都在耶和华眼前； 他也修平人一切的路。
For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and the LORD examines all his paths.
22 恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住； 他必被自己的罪恶如绳索缠绕。
The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him; the cords of his sin entangle him.
23 他因不受训诲就必死亡； 又因愚昧过甚，必走差了路。
He dies for lack of discipline, led astray by his own great folly.
