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 sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

2Keep my commands, and live, And my law as the pupil of thine eye.

3Bind them on thy fingers, Write them on the tablet of thy heart.

4Say to wisdom, 'My sister Thou [art].' And cry to understanding, 'Kinswoman!'

5To preserve thee from a strange woman, From a stranger who hath made smooth her sayings.

6For, at a window of my house, Through my casement I have looked out,

7And I do see among the simple ones, I discern among the sons, A young man lacking understanding,

8Passing on in the street, near her corner, And the way [to] her house he doth step,

9In the twilight — in the evening of day, In the darkness of night and blackness.

10And, lo, a woman to meet him — (A harlot's dress, and watchful of heart,

11Noisy she [is], and stubborn, In her house her feet rest not.

12Now in an out-place, now in broad places, And near every corner she lieth in wait) —

13And she laid hold on him, and kissed him, She hath hardened her face, and saith to him,

14'Sacrifices of peace-offerings [are] by me, To-day I have completed my vows.

15Therefore I have come forth to meet thee, To seek earnestly thy face, and I find thee.

16[With] ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works — cotton of Egypt.

17I sprinkled my bed — myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

18Come, we are filled [with] loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

19For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

20A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'

21She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

22He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

23Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it [is] for its life.

24And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

25Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

26For many [are] the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty [are] all her slain ones.

27The ways of Sheol — her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!