Proverbs 5

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

1 孩子啊，要留心听我的智言， 侧耳听我的慧语，

2 that you may maintain discretion and your lips may preserve knowledge.

2 好保持明辨力， 嘴唇谨守知识。

3 Though the lips of the forbidden woman drip honey and her speech is smoother than oil,

3 淫妇满口甜言蜜语， 油嘴滑舌，

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

4 最后却苦如艾草， 锋利似双刃剑。

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

5 她的双脚走进死地， 她的步伐迈向阴间。

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

6 她不走生命的康庄大道， 偏离了正途也不自知。

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

7 孩子们啊，要听从我， 不可违背我的话！

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

8 要远远避开淫妇， 不可靠近她的家门，

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

9 免得你为别人枉费精力， 为残忍之徒断送青春；

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

10 免得外人吞尽你的财富， 你的辛劳所得归给外人。

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

11 临终之时，肉体衰残， 你必呻吟不止，

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

12 说：“我为何厌恶教诲， 心里藐视责备！

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

13 不听从老师的话， 不侧耳听导师之言。

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

14 在会众当中， 我几乎身败名裂。”

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

15 你当喝自己池中的水， 饮自己井里的活水。

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

16 你的泉水岂可外流？ 你的河水怎可溢到街上？

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

17 这些要专属于你， 不可与外人共享。

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

18 要使你的泉源蒙福， 要爱你年轻时所娶的妻。

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

19 她秀美可爱宛如母鹿， 愿她的胸令你时时满足， 愿她的爱让你常常陶醉。

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

20 孩子啊，为何迷恋淫妇？ 为何拥抱妓女的胸？

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

21 因为人的所作所为逃不过耶和华的眼目， 祂必鉴察人一切所行之道。

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

22 恶人被自己的罪恶捉住， 被自己罪恶的绳索捆绑。

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

23 他因不听管教而丧命， 因极其愚妄而入歧途。