7:1 我儿，你要遵守我的言语，将我的命令存记在心。

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

 

7:2 遵守我的命令，就得存活。保守我的法则，（或作指教）好像保守眼中的瞳人。

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

 

7:3 系在你指头上，刻在你心版上。

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

 

7:4 对智慧说，你是我的姊妹。称呼聪明为你的亲人。

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

 

7:5 他就保你远离淫妇，远离说谄媚话的外女。

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

 

7:6 我曾在我房屋的窗户内，从我窗棂之间，往外观看。

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

 

7:7 见愚昧人内，少年人中，分明有一个无知的少年人，

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

 

7:8 从街上经过，走近淫妇的巷口，直往通他家的路去，

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

 

7:9 在黄昏，或晚上，或半夜，或黑暗之中，

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

 

7:10 看哪，有一个妇人来迎接他，是妓女的打扮，有诡诈的心思。

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

 

7:11 这妇人喧囔不守约束，在家里停不住脚。

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

 

7:12 有时在街市上，有时在宽阔处，或在各巷口蹲伏。

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

 

7:13 拉住那少年人，与他亲嘴，脸无羞耻对他说，

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

 

7:14 平安祭在我这里。今日才还了我所许的愿。

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

 

7:15 因此，我出来迎接你，恳求见你的面，恰巧遇见了你。

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

 

7:16 我以经用绣花毯子，和埃及线织的花纹布，铺了我的床。

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

 

7:17 我又用没药，沉香，桂皮，薰了我的榻。

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

 

7:18 你来，我们可以饱享爱情，直到早晨。我们可以彼此亲爱欢乐。

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

 

7:19 因为我丈夫不在家，出门行远路。

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

 

7:20 他手拿银囊。必到月望才回家。

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

 

7:21 淫妇用许多巧言诱他随从，用谄媚的嘴逼他同行。

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

 

7:22 少年人立刻跟随他，好像牛往宰杀之地，又像愚昧人带锁链，去受刑罚。

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

 

7:23 直等箭穿他的肝，如同雀鸟急入网罗，却不知是自丧己命。

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

 

7:24 众子阿，现在要听从我，留心听我口中的话。

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

 

7:25 你的心，不可偏向淫妇的道。不要入他的迷途。

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

 

7:26 因为被他伤害仆倒的不少。被他杀戳的而且甚多。

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

 

7:27 他的家是在阴间之路，下到死亡之宫。

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