5:1 我儿，要留心我智慧的话语，侧耳听我聪明的言词。

My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

 

5:2 为要使你谨守谋略，嘴唇保存知识。

That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.

 

5:3 因为淫妇的嘴滴下蜂蜜，他的口比油更滑。

For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:

 

5:4 至终却苦似茵？？，快如两刃的刀。

But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

 

5:5 他的脚，下入死地。他脚步，踏住阴间。

Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.

 

5:6 以致他找不着生命平坦的道。他的路变迁不定，自己还不知道。

Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.

 

5:7 众子阿，现在要听从我，不可离弃我口中的话。

Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

 

5:8 你所行的道要离他远，不可就近他的房门。

Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

 

5:9 恐怕将你的尊荣给别人，将你的岁月给残忍的人。

Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

 

5:10 恐怕外人满得你的力量，你劳碌得来的，归入外人的家。

Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;

 

5:11 终久你皮肉和身体消毁，你就悲叹，

And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,

 

5:12 说，我怎吗恨恶训诲，心中藐视责备，

And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

 

5:13 也不听从我师父的话，又不侧耳听那教训我的人。

And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!

 

5:14 我在圣会里，几乎落在诸般恶中。

I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.

 

5:15 你要喝自己池中的水，饮自己井里的活水。

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

 

5:16 你的泉源岂可涨溢在外。你的河水岂可流在街上。

Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

 

5:17 惟独归你一人，不可与外人同用。

Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.

 

5:18 要使你的泉源蒙福。要喜悦你幼年所娶的妻。

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.

 

5:19 他如可爱的？？鹿，可喜的母鹿。愿他的胸怀，使你时时知足。他的爱情，使你常常恋慕。

Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

 

5:20 我儿，你为何恋慕淫妇，为何抱外女的胸怀。

And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?

 

5:21 因为人所行的道，都在耶和华眼前。他也修平人一切的路。

For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.

 

5:22 恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住。他必被自己的罪恶如绳索缠绕。

His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.

 

5:23 他因不受训诲，就必死亡。又因愚昧过甚，必走差了路。

He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.