Proverbs 5
1 My son, pay attention to my wisdom; incline your ears to my understanding,
我兒，要留心我智慧的話語， 側耳聽我聰明的言詞，
2 so you may learn about discretion and your lips may protect knowledge.
為要使你謹守謀略， 嘴唇保存知識。
3 For the lips of an adulteress drip with honey and her mouth is smoother than oil,
因為淫婦的嘴滴下蜂蜜； 她的口比油更滑，
4 but in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, cutting like a sharp sword.
至終卻苦似茵蔯， 快如兩刃的刀。
她的腳下入死地； 她腳步踏住陰間， (Sheol h7585)
6 She gives no thought to the path of life. Her footsteps wander; she does not know where she is going.
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。
7 Now, my sons, listen to me; do not turn away from listening to the words of my mouth.
眾子啊，現在要聽從我； 不可離棄我口中的話。
8 Keep your path far away from her and do not come near the door of her house.
你所行的道要離她遠， 不可就近她的房門，
9 In that way you will not give away your honor to others or years of your life to a cruel person;
恐怕將你的尊榮給別人， 將你的歲月給殘忍的人；
10 strangers will not feast on your wealth; what you have worked for will not go into the house of strangers.
恐怕外人滿得你的力量， 你勞碌得來的，歸入外人的家；
11 At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body waste away.
終久，你皮肉和身體消毀， 你就悲歎，
12 You will say, “How I hated instruction and my heart despised correction!
說：我怎麼恨惡訓誨， 心中藐視責備，
13 I would not obey my teachers or incline my ear to my instructors.
也不聽從我師傅的話， 又不側耳聽那教訓我的人？
14 I was almost completely ruined in the midst of the assembly, among the gathering of the people.”
我在聖會裏， 幾乎落在諸般惡中。
15 Drink water from your own cistern and drink running water from your own well.
你要喝自己池中的水， 飲自己井裏的活水。
16 Should your springs overflow everywhere and your streams of water flow in the public squares?
你的泉源豈可漲溢在外？ 你的河水豈可流在街上？
17 Let them be for yourself alone and not for strangers with you.
惟獨歸你一人， 不可與外人同用。
18 May your fountain be blessed and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth,
要使你的泉源蒙福； 要喜悅你幼年所娶的妻。
19 for she is a loving deer and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times; may you be continually intoxicated by her love.
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。
20 For why should you, my son, be captivated by an adulteress; why should you embrace the breasts of an immoral woman?
我兒，你為何戀慕淫婦？ 為何抱外女的胸懷？
21 Yahweh sees everything a person does and watches all the paths he takes.
因為，人所行的道都在耶和華眼前； 他也修平人一切的路。
22 A wicked person will be seized by his own iniquities; the cords of his sin will hold him tight.
惡人必被自己的罪孽捉住； 他必被自己的罪惡如繩索纏繞。
23 He will die because he lacks instruction; he is led astray by his great foolishness.
他因不受訓誨就必死亡； 又因愚昧過甚，必走差了路。
