- 5:1 My son, be attentive to my wisdom; Incline your ear to my understanding,
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我儿，要留心听我的智慧，侧耳听我的聪明，
- 5:2 That you may keep discretion, And your lips may guard knowledge.
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为要使你谨守谋略，嘴唇护卫知识。
- 5:3 For the lips of a strange woman drip honey, And her mouth is smoother than oil;
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因为淫妇的嘴滴下蜂蜜，她的口比油更滑；
- 5:4 But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.
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至终她却苦似茵蔯，快如两刃的刀。
- 5:5 Her feet go down to death; Her steps hold fast to Sheol.
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她的脚下入死地；她的脚步迈向阴间。
- 5:6 She does not make straight the path of life: Her ways wander, and she does not know it.
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她不走生命平坦的途径；她所行的变迁不定，自己却不知道。
- 5:7 And now, my sons, listen to me, And do not depart from the words of my mouth.
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众子阿，现在要听从我，不可离弃我口中的话。
- 5:8 Keep your way far from her, And do not go near the door of her house;
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你所行的路要离她远，不可就近她的房门；
- 5:9 Lest you give your honor to others, And your years to the cruel;
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免得将你的尊荣给了别人，将你的岁月给了残忍的人；
- 5:10 Lest strangers be filled with your wealth, And your labors go to the house of a foreigner,
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免得别人满得你的赀财，你劳碌得来的归入外人的家；
- 5:11 And you mourn at your end, When your flesh and your body are consumed,
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终久，你的皮肉和身体销毁，你就悲叹，
- 5:12 And you say, How I have hated instruction, And my heart has despised reproof!
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说，我怎么恨恶训诲，我的心怎么藐视责备！
- 5:13 And I have not listened to the voice of my teachers Nor inclined my ear to my instructors;
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也不听从我教师的话，又不侧耳听那教导我的人；
- 5:14 I was almost into every evil In the midst of the congregation and assembly.
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我在会众和大会里，几乎落在诸般的恶中。
- 5:15 Drink waters out of your own cistern, And running water out of your own well.
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你要喝自己池中的水，饮自己井里流动的水。
- 5:16 Should your springs be shed forth, Like streams of water in the streets?
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你的泉源岂可涨溢在外，如同溪水流在街上？
- 5:17 Let them be yours alone, And not for strangers with you.
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这水惟独归你一人，不可与别人同用。
- 5:18 Let your fountain be blessed, And rejoice in the wife of your youth,
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要使你的泉源蒙福；要喜悦你少年所娶的妻，
- 5:19 A lovely hind and a graceful doe. Let her breasts satisfy you at all times. May you be ravished with her love always.
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她如可爱的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿；愿她的胸怀使你时时满足，她的爱情使你常常迷恋。
- 5:20 For why should you be ravished, my son, with a strange woman And embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
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我儿，你为何迷恋淫妇？为何抱外女的胸怀？
- 5:21 For the ways of a man are before the eyes of Jehovah, And He ponders all his paths.
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因为人的道路都在耶和华眼前，祂也考量人一切的途径。
- 5:22 The wicked man is taken by his own iniquities, And he is held fast by the cords of his own sin.
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恶人必被自己的罪孽捉住，他必被自己罪恶的绳索缠绕。
- 5:23 He will die for lack of instruction, And in the greatness of his folly he will go astray.
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他因不受训诲就必死亡，又因愚妄过甚，必走迷了路。