Proverbs

1我儿，你要遵守我的言语， 将我的命令存记在心。

2遵守我的命令就得存活； 保守我的法则， 好像保守眼中的瞳人，

3系在你指头上， 刻在你心版上。

4对智慧说：你是我的姊妹， 称呼聪明为你的亲人，

5她就保你远离淫妇， 远离说谄媚话的外女。

淫乱的妇人

6我曾在我房屋的窗户内， 从我窗棂之间往外观看：

7见愚蒙人内，少年人中， 分明有一个无知的少年人，

8从街上经过，走近淫妇的巷口， 直往通她家的路去，

9在黄昏，或晚上， 或半夜，或黑暗之中。

10看哪，有一个妇人来迎接他， 是妓女的打扮，有诡诈的心思。

11这妇人喧嚷，不守约束， 在家里停不住脚，

12有时在街市上，有时在宽阔处， 或在各巷口蹲伏，

13拉住那少年人，与他亲嘴， 脸无羞耻对他说：

14平安祭在我这里， 今日才还了我所许的愿。

15因此，我出来迎接你， 恳切求见你的面，恰巧遇见了你。

16我已经用绣花毯子 和埃及线织的花纹布铺了我的床。

17我又用没药、沉香、桂皮 薰了我的榻。

18你来，我们可以饱享爱情，直到早晨； 我们可以彼此亲爱欢乐。

19因为我丈夫不在家，出门行远路；

20他手拿银囊，必到月望才回家。

21淫妇用许多巧言诱他随从， 用谄媚的嘴逼他同行。

22少年人立刻跟随她，好像牛往宰杀之地； 又像愚昧人带锁链去受刑罚，

23直等箭穿他的肝； 如同雀鸟急入网罗，却不知是自丧己命。

24众子啊，现在要听从我， 留心听我口中的话。

25你的心不可偏向淫妇的道， 不要入她的迷途。

26因为，被她伤害仆倒的不少； 被她杀戮的而且甚多。

27她的家是在阴间之路， 下到死亡之宫。

1My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

3Bind them upon thy fingers, write them upon the table of thine heart.

4Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:

5That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

6¶ For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,

7And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,

8Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

9In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

10And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and subtil of heart.

11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

12Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every corner.)

13So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face said unto him,

14I have peace offerings with me; this day have I payed my vows.

15Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

16I have decked my bed with coverings of tapestry, with carved works, with fine linen of Egypt.

17I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

19For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:

20He hath taken a bag of money with him, and will come home at the day appointed.

21With her much fair speech she caused him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forced him.

22He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

23Till a dart strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.

24¶ Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

25Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.

26For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, many strong men have been slain by her.

27Her house is the way to hell, going down to the chambers of death.