Proverbs

警告勿犯淫乱

1我儿，要留心我智慧的话语， 侧耳听我聪明的言词，

2为要使你谨守谋略， 嘴唇保存知识。

3因为淫妇的嘴滴下蜂蜜； 她的口比油更滑，

4至终却苦似茵 ， 快如两刃的刀。

5她的脚下入死地； 她脚步踏住阴间，

6以致她找不着生命平坦的道。 她的路变迁不定， 自己还不知道。

7众子啊，现在要听从我； 不可离弃我口中的话。

8你所行的道要离她远， 不可就近她的房门，

9恐怕将你的尊荣给别人， 将你的岁月给残忍的人；

10恐怕外人满得你的力量， 你劳碌得来的，归入外人的家；

11终久，你皮肉和身体消毁， 你就悲叹，

12说：我怎么恨恶训诲， 心中藐视责备，

13也不听从我师傅的话， 又不侧耳听那教训我的人？

14我在圣会里， 几乎落在诸般恶中。

15你要喝自己池中的水， 饮自己井里的活水。

16你的泉源岂可涨溢在外？ 你的河水岂可流在街上？

17惟独归你一人， 不可与外人同用。

18要使你的泉源蒙福； 要喜悦你幼年所娶的妻。

19她如可爱的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿； 愿她的胸怀使你时时知足， 她的爱情使你常常恋慕。

20我儿，你为何恋慕淫妇？ 为何抱外女的胸怀？

21因为，人所行的道都在耶和华眼前； 他也修平人一切的路。

22恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住； 他必被自己的罪恶如绳索缠绕。

23他因不受训诲就必死亡； 又因愚昧过甚，必走差了路。

Avoiding Immorality

1My son, pay attention to my wisdom;incline your ear to my insight,

2that you may maintain discretionand your lips may preserve knowledge.

3Though the lips of the forbidden womandrip honeyand her speechis smoother than oil,

4in the end she is bitter as wormwood,sharp as a double-edged sword.

5Her feet go down to death;her steps lead straight to Sheol.

6She does not consider the path of life;she does not know that her ways are unstable.

7So now, my sons, listen to me,and do not turn aside from the words of my mouth.

8Keep your path far from her;do not go near the door of her house,

9lest you concede your vigor to others,and your years to one who is cruel;

10lest strangers feast on your wealth,and your labors enrich the house of a foreigner.

11At the end of your life you will groanwhen your flesh and your body are spent,

12and you will say, “How I hated discipline,and my heart despised reproof!

13I did not listen to the voice of my teachersor incline my ear to my mentors.

14I am on the brink of utter ruinin the midst of the whole assembly.”

15Drink water from your own cistern,and running water from your own well.

16Why should your springs flow in the streets,your streams of water in the public squares?

17Let them be yours alone,never to be shared with strangers.

18May your fountain be blessed,and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

19A loving doe, a graceful fawn—may her breasts satisfy you always; may you be captivatedby her love forever.

20Why be captivated, my son, by an adulteress,or embrace the bosom of a stranger?

21For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD,and the LORD examinesall his paths.

22The iniquities of a wicked man entrap him;the cords of his sin entangle him.

23He dies for lack of discipline,led astray by his own great folly.