Proverbs 7
1 My son! Keep my sayings, And lay up my commands with you.
我兒，你要遵守我的言語， 將我的命令存記在心。
2 Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of your eye.
遵守我的命令就得存活； 保守我的法則， 好像保守眼中的瞳人，
3 Bind them on your fingers, Write them on the tablet of your heart.
繫在你指頭上， 刻在你心版上。
4 Say to wisdom, “You [are] my sister.” And cry to understanding, “Relative!”
對智慧說：你是我的姊妹， 稱呼聰明為你的親人，
5 To preserve you from a strange woman, From a stranger who has made her sayings smooth.
她就保你遠離淫婦， 遠離說諂媚話的外女。
6 For at a window of my house, I have looked out through my casement,
我曾在我房屋的窗戶內， 從我窗欞之間往外觀看：
7 And I see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,
見愚蒙人內，少年人中， 分明有一個無知的少年人，
8 Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he steps,
從街上經過，走近淫婦的巷口， 直往通她家的路去，
9 In the twilight—in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.
在黃昏，或晚上， 或半夜，或黑暗之中。
10 And behold, a woman to meet him—(A harlot’s dress, and watchful of heart,
看哪，有一個婦人來迎接他， 是妓女的打扮，有詭詐的心思。
11 She [is] noisy, and stubborn, her feet do not rest in her house.
這婦人喧嚷，不守約束， 在家裏停不住腳，
12 Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And she lies in wait near every corner)—
有時在街市上，有時在寬闊處， 或在各巷口蹲伏，
13 And she laid hold on him and kissed him, She has hardened her face and says to him,
拉住那少年人，與他親嘴， 臉無羞恥對他說：
14 “Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, Today I have completed my vows.
平安祭在我這裏， 今日才還了我所許的願。
15 Therefore I have come forth to meet you, To earnestly seek your face, and I find you.
因此，我出來迎接你， 懇切求見你的面，恰巧遇見了你。
16 I decked my bed [with] ornamental coverings, Carved works—cotton of Egypt.
我已經用繡花毯子 和埃及線織的花紋布鋪了我的床。
17 I sprinkled my bed [with] myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
我又用沒藥、沉香、桂皮 薰了我的榻。
18 Come, we are filled [with] love until the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.
你來，我們可以飽享愛情，直到早晨； 我們可以彼此親愛歡樂。
19 For the man is not in his house, He has gone on a long journey.
因為我丈夫不在家，出門行遠路；
20 He has taken a bag of money in his hand, At the day of the new moon he comes to his house.”
他手拿銀囊，必到月望才回家。
21 She turns him aside with the abundance of her speech, She forces him with the flattery of her lips.
淫婦用許多巧言誘他隨從， 用諂媚的嘴逼他同行。
22 He is going after her straight away, he comes as an ox to the slaughter, And as a chain to the discipline of a fool,
少年人立刻跟隨她，好像牛往宰殺之地； 又像愚昧人帶鎖鍊去受刑罰，
23 Until an arrow splits his liver, As a bird has hurried to a snare, And has not known that it [is] for its life.
直等箭穿他的肝； 如同雀鳥急入網羅，卻不知是自喪己命。
24 And now, you sons, listen to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.
眾子啊，現在要聽從我， 留心聽我口中的話。
25 Do not let your heart turn to her ways, Do not wander in her paths,
你的心不可偏向淫婦的道， 不要入她的迷途。
26 For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.
因為，被她傷害仆倒的不少； 被她殺戮的而且甚多。
