箴言 5
1 我兒，要留心我智慧的話語， 側耳聽我聰明的言詞，
My son, to my wisdom, attend, and, to mine understanding, incline thou thine ear:
2 為要使你謹守謀略， 嘴唇保存知識。
That thou mayest preserve discretion, —and, as for knowledge, that thy lips may guard it.
3 因為淫婦的嘴滴下蜂蜜； 她的口比油更滑，
For, with sweet droppings, drip the lips of her that is a stranger, and, smoother than oil, is her mouth;
4 至終卻苦似茵蔯， 快如兩刃的刀。
But, the latter end of her, is bitter as wormwood, sharp, as a two-edged sword!
Her feet, are going down to death, —on hades, will her steps take firm hold. (Sheol h7585)
6 以致她找不着生命平坦的道。 她的路變遷不定， 自己還不知道。
Lest, the path of life, she should ponder, her tracks have wandered she knoweth not [whither].
7 眾子啊，現在要聽從我； 不可離棄我口中的話。
Now, therefore, ye sons, hearken unto me, and do not turn away from the sayings of my mouth.
8 你所行的道要離她遠， 不可就近她的房門，
Keep far from her thy way, and do not go near the opening of her house:
9 恐怕將你的尊榮給別人， 將你的歲月給殘忍的人；
Lest thou give, to other men, thy vigour, and thy years, to him that is cruel:
10 恐怕外人滿得你的力量， 你勞碌得來的，歸入外人的家；
Lest strange men, be well fed, by thy strength, and, thy toils, be in the house of the alien.
11 終久，你皮肉和身體消毀， 你就悲歎，
So shalt thou grieve in thy latter end, in the failing of thy flesh and of thy healthy condition;
12 說：我怎麼恨惡訓誨， 心中藐視責備，
And thou shalt say—How I hated correction! and, reproof, my heart disdained;
13 也不聽從我師傅的話， 又不側耳聽那教訓我的人？
Neither hearkened I to the voice of my teachers, nor, to my instructors, inclined I mine ear:
14 我在聖會裏， 幾乎落在諸般惡中。
Soon was I in all evil, in the midst of convocation and assembly.
15 你要喝自己池中的水， 飲自己井裏的活水。
Drink thou water out of thine own cistern, and flowing streams out of the midst of thine own well.
16 你的泉源豈可漲溢在外？ 你的河水豈可流在街上？
Let not thy fountains, flow over, abroad, in the streets, dividings of waters:
17 惟獨歸你一人， 不可與外人同用。
Let them be for thyself, alone, and not for strangers with thee.
18 要使你的泉源蒙福； 要喜悅你幼年所娶的妻。
Let thy well-spring be blessed, —and get thy joy from the wife of thy youth: —
19 她如可愛的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿； 願她的胸懷使你時時知足， 她的愛情使你常常戀慕。
A loving hind! a graceful doe! let, her bosom, content thee at all times, and, in her love, mayst thou stray evermore.
20 我兒，你為何戀慕淫婦？ 為何抱外女的胸懷？
Wherefore, then, shouldst thou stray, my son, with a strange woman? or embrace the bosom of a woman unknown?
21 因為，人所行的道都在耶和華眼前； 他也修平人一切的路。
For, before the eyes of Yahweh, are the ways of a man, —and, all his tracks, doth he consider:
22 惡人必被自己的罪孽捉住； 他必被自己的罪惡如繩索纏繞。
His own iniquities, shall entrap him with the lawless, and, by the cords of his own sin, shall he be seized.
23 他因不受訓誨就必死亡； 又因愚昧過甚，必走差了路。
He, shall die, for lack of discipline, and, by the abounding of his perversity, shall he be lost.
