Proverbs 5

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

1 我兒，要留心我智慧的話語， 側耳聽我聰明的言詞，

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

2 為要使你謹守謀略， 嘴唇保存知識。

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

3 因為淫婦的嘴滴下蜂蜜； 她的口比油更滑，

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

4 至終卻苦似茵蔯， 快如兩刃的刀。

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

5 她的腳下入死地； 她腳步踏住陰間，

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

6 以致她找不着生命平坦的道。 她的路變遷不定， 自己還不知道。

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

7 眾子啊，現在要聽從我； 不可離棄我口中的話。

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

8 你所行的道要離她遠， 不可就近她的房門，

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

9 恐怕將你的尊榮給別人， 將你的歲月給殘忍的人；

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

10 恐怕外人滿得你的力量， 你勞碌得來的，歸入外人的家；

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

11 終久，你皮肉和身體消毀， 你就悲歎，

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

12 說：我怎麼恨惡訓誨， 心中藐視責備，

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

13 也不聽從我師傅的話， 又不側耳聽那教訓我的人？

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

14 我在聖會裏， 幾乎落在諸般惡中。

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

15 你要喝自己池中的水， 飲自己井裏的活水。

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

16 你的泉源豈可漲溢在外？ 你的河水豈可流在街上？

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

17 惟獨歸你一人， 不可與外人同用。

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； 要喜悅你幼年所娶的妻。

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

19 她如可愛的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿； 願她的胸懷使你時時知足， 她的愛情使你常常戀慕。

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

20 我兒，你為何戀慕淫婦？ 為何抱外女的胸懷？

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

21 因為，人所行的道都在耶和華眼前； 他也修平人一切的路。

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

22 惡人必被自己的罪孽捉住； 他必被自己的罪惡如繩索纏繞。

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

23 他因不受訓誨就必死亡； 又因愚昧過甚，必走差了路。