遠避淫亂
1孩子啊，要留心聽我的智言，
側耳聽我的慧語，
2好保持明辨力，
嘴唇謹守知識。
3淫婦滿口甜言蜜語，
油嘴滑舌，
4最後卻苦如艾草，
鋒利似雙刃劍。
5她的雙腳走進死地，
她的步伐邁向陰間。
6她不走生命的康莊大道，
偏離了正途也不自知。
7孩子們啊，要聽從我，
不可違背我的話！
8要遠遠避開淫婦，
不可靠近她的家門，
9免得你為別人枉費精力，
為殘忍之徒斷送青春；
10免得外人吞盡你的財富，
你的辛勞所得歸給他人。
11臨終之時，肉體衰殘，
你必呻吟不止，
12說：「我為何厭惡教誨，
心裡藐視責備！
13不聽從老師的話，
不側耳聽導師之言。
14在眾人面前，
我幾乎身敗名裂。」
15你當喝自己池中的水，
飲自己井裡的活水。
16你的泉水豈可外流？
你的河水怎可溢到街上？
17這些要專屬於你，
不可與外人共享。
18要使你的泉源蒙福，
要愛你年輕時所娶的妻。
19她高貴可愛宛如母鹿，
願她的胸令你時時滿足，
願她的愛令你常常陶醉。
20孩子啊，為何迷戀淫婦？
為何擁抱妓女的胸？
21因為人的所作所為逃不過耶和華的眼目，
祂必鑒察人走的一切路。
22惡人被自己的罪惡捉住，
被自己的罪惡捆綁。
23他因不聽教誨而喪命，
因極其愚妄而入歧途。
A Warning Against Committing Adultery
1My son, pay attention to my wisdom.
Listen carefully to my wise sayings.
2Then you will continue to have good sense.
Your lips will keep on speaking words of knowledge.
3A woman who commits adultery has lips that drip honey.
What she says is smoother than olive oil.
4But in the end she is like bitter poison.
She cuts like a sword that has two edges.
5Her feet go down to death.
Her steps lead straight to the grave.
6She doesn’t give any thought to her way of life.
Her paths have no direction, but she doesn’t realize it.
7My sons, listen to me.
Don’t turn away from what I say.
8Stay on a path far away from that evil woman.
Don’t even go near the door of her house.
9If you do, you will lose your honor to other people.
You will give your self-respect to someone who is mean.
10Strangers will use up all your wealth.
Your hard work will make someone else rich.
11At the end of your life you will groan.
Your skin and your body will be worn out.
12You will say, “How I hated to take advice!
How my heart refused to be corrected!
13I would not obey my teachers.
I wouldn’t listen to those who taught me.
14I was soon in deep trouble.
It happened right in front of the whole assembly of God’s people.”
15Drink water from your own well.
Drink running water from your own spring.
16Should your springs pour out into the streets?
Should your streams of water pour out in public places?
17No! Let them belong to you alone.
Never share them with strangers.
18May your fountain be blessed.
May the wife you married when you were young make you happy.
19She is like a loving doe, a graceful deer.
May her breasts always satisfy you.
May you always be captured by her love.
20My son, why be captured by another man’s wife?
Why hug a woman who has gone astray?
21The Lord watches your ways.
He studies all your paths.
22Sinners are trapped by their own evil acts.
They are held tight by the ropes of their sins.
23They will die because they refused to be corrected.
Their sins will capture them because they were very foolish.
