箴5:1 我儿，要留心我智慧的话语，侧耳听我聪明的言词，
箴5:1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
箴5:2 为要使你谨守谋略，嘴唇保存知识。
箴5:2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge.
箴5:3 因为淫妇的嘴滴下蜂蜜，她的口比油更滑，
箴5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
箴5:4 至终却苦似茵陈，快如两刃的刀。
箴5:4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
箴5:5 她的脚下入死地，她脚步踏住阴间，
箴5:5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
箴5:6 以致她找不着生命平坦的道。她的路变迁不定，自己还不知道。
箴5:6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them.
箴5:7 众子啊，现在要听从我，不可离弃我口中的话，
箴5:7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
箴5:8 你所行的道要离她远，不可就近她的房门。
箴5:8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
箴5:9 恐怕将你的尊荣给别人，将你的岁月给残忍的人；
箴5:9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:
箴5:10 恐怕外人满得你的力量，你劳碌得来的，归入外人的家。
箴5:10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger;
箴5:11 终久，你皮肉和身体消毁，你就悲叹，
箴5:11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed,
箴5:12 说：“我怎么恨恶训诲，心中藐视责备，
箴5:12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
箴5:13 也不听从我师傅的话，又不侧耳听那教训我的人？
箴5:13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
箴5:14 我在圣会里，几乎落在诸般恶中。”
箴5:14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
箴5:15 你要喝自己池中的水，饮自己井里的活水。
箴5:15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.
箴5:16 你的泉源岂可涨溢在外？你的河水岂可流在街上？
箴5:16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
箴5:17 惟独归你一人，不可与外人同用。
箴5:17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee.
箴5:18 要使你的泉源蒙福，要喜悦你幼年所娶的妻。
箴5:18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.
箴5:19 她如可爱的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿。愿她的胸怀使你时时知足，她的爱情使你常常恋慕。
箴5:19 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.
箴5:20 我儿，你为何恋慕淫妇？为何抱外女的胸怀？
箴5:20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
箴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。
箴5:21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings.
箴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。
箴5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins.
箴5:23 他因不受训诲，就必死亡；又因愚昧过甚，必走差了路。
箴5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.