- 7:1 My son, keep my words, And treasure up my commandments within you.
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我儿，你要遵守我的言语，将我的诫命珍藏在你里面。
- 7:2 Keep my commandments, and live; And my teaching, like the apple of your eye.
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要遵守我的诫命，就得存活；保守我的指教，好像保守眼中的瞳人。
- 7:3 Bind them on your fingers; Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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系在你指头上，写在你心版上。
- 7:4 Say to wisdom, You are my sister, And call understanding your close friend,
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要对智慧说，你是我的姊妹，要称呼聪明为密友，
- 7:5 That they may keep you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words.
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好保守你远离淫妇，远离说谄媚话的外女。
- 7:6 For at the window of my house I looked out through my lattice,
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曾在我房屋的窗户内，从我窗棂之间往外观看，
- 7:7 And I saw among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, A young man lacking sense,
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见愚蒙人内，少年人中，分明有一个无知的少年人，
- 7:8 Passing along the street near her corner; And he takes the way to her house,
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从街上经过，走近淫妇的巷口，步上通往她家的路，
- 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, In the deep of night and darkness.
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在黄昏，或晚上，或半夜，或黑暗之中。
- 7:10 And there comes a woman to meet him, Dressed as a harlot and cunning of heart.
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有一个妇人来迎接他，是妓女的打扮，心怀诡诈。
- 7:11 She is rowdy and defiant; Her feet do not stay at home -
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这妇人喧嚷，任性不羁，在家里停不住脚－
- 7:12 Now in the street, now in the squares, And at every corner she lies in wait.
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有时在街市上，有时在宽阔处，或在各巷口蹲伏等候；
- 7:13 And she grabs him and kisses him; And with an impudent face she says to him,
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她拉住那少年人，与他亲嘴，厚颜无耻的对他说，
- 7:14 I had to make offerings; Today I have paid my vows.
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我原要献祭，今日才还了所许的愿。
- 7:15 Therefore I have come out to meet you, To earnestly seek your presence; and I have found you.
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因此，我出来迎接你，恳切要见你的面，果然遇见了你。
- 7:16 I have decked my couch with coverings, Colored spreads of the linen of Egypt;
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我已经用毯子和埃及细麻织的花纹布，铺了我的床；
- 7:17 I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, Aloes, and cinnamon.
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我又用没药、沉香、桂皮，薰了我的榻。
- 7:18 Come, let us drink our fill of love until the morning; Let us delight ourselves with love.
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你来，我们可以饱尝爱情，直到早晨；我们可以彼此亲爱欢乐。
- 7:19 For my husband is not at home; He has gone on a long journey.
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因为我丈夫不在家，出门行远路。
- 7:20 He has taken the money bag with him; He will come home at the full moon.
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他手拿银囊，到月望才回家。
- 7:21 With her great persuasiveness she beguiles him; With her smooth talk she compels him.
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淫妇用许多花言巧语诱惑他，用谄媚的话哄逼他。
- 7:22 He goes after her immediately, As an ox goes to the slaughter, Or as someone in fetters, to the correction of the fool,
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少年人立刻跟随她，好像牛往宰杀之地，又像人带着锁炼去受愚妄人受的惩治，
- 7:23 Until an arrow pierces through his liver. As a bird hastens to the snare, So he does not know that this will cost him his life.
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直到箭穿他的肝；他如同雀鸟急投网罗，并不知这会自丧己命。
- 7:24 And now, my sons, listen to me, And pay attention to the words of my mouth.
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众子阿，现在要听从我，留心听我口中的话。
- 7:25 Do not let your heart turn aside to her ways; Do not stray into her paths.
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你的心不可偏向淫妇的道路，不要迷入她的途径。
- 7:26 For many are those whom she has brought down wounded, And numerous are all who have been slain by her.
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因为被她伤害仆倒的不少，被她杀戮的甚多。
- 7:27 Her house is the way to Sheol, Going down to the chambers of death.
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她的家是通往阴间的道路，下到死亡的密宫。