箴言 Proverbs

7:1	[hgb]	我儿，你要遵守我的言语，将我的命令存记在心。
	[bbe]	My son, keep my sayings, and let my rules be stored up with you.
7:2	[hgb]	遵守我的命令，就得存活。保守我的法则，（或作指教）好像保守眼中的瞳人。
	[bbe]	Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
7:3	[hgb]	系在你指头上，刻在你心版上。
	[bbe]	Let them be fixed to your fingers, and recorded in your heart.
7:4	[hgb]	对智慧说，你是我的姊妹。称呼聪明为你的亲人。
	[bbe]	Say to wisdom, You are my sister; let knowledge be named your special friend:
7:5	[hgb]	他就保你远离淫妇，远离说谄媚话的外女。
	[bbe]	So that they may keep you from the strange woman, even from her whose words are smooth.
7:6	[hgb]	我曾在我房屋的窗户内，从我窗棂之间，往外观看。
	[bbe]	Looking out from my house, and watching through the window,
7:7	[hgb]	见愚蒙人内，少年人中，分明有一个无知的少年人，
	[bbe]	I saw among the young men one without sense,
7:8	[hgb]	从街上经过，走近淫妇的巷口，直往通她家的路去，
	[bbe]	Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,
7:9	[hgb]	在黄昏，或晚上，或半夜，或黑暗之中，
	[bbe]	At nightfall, in the evening of the day, in the black dark of the night.
7:10	[hgb]	看哪，有一个妇人来迎接他，是妓女的打扮，有诡诈的心思。
	[bbe]	And the woman came out to him, in the dress of a loose woman, with a designing heart;
7:11	[hgb]	这妇人喧嚷不守约束，在家里停不住脚。
	[bbe]	She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.
7:12	[hgb]	有时在街市上，有时在宽阔处，或在各巷口蹲伏。
	[bbe]	Now she is in the street, now in the open spaces, waiting at every turning of the road.
7:13	[hgb]	拉住那少年人，与他亲嘴，脸无羞耻对他说，
	[bbe]	So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:
7:14	[hgb]	平安祭在我这里。今日才还了我所许的愿。
	[bbe]	I have a feast of peace-offerings, for today my oaths have been effected.
7:15	[hgb]	因此，我出来迎接你，恳切求见你的面，恰巧遇见了你。
	[bbe]	So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.
7:16	[hgb]	我已经用绣花毯子，和埃及线织的花纹布，铺了我的床。
	[bbe]	My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;
7:17	[hgb]	我又用没药，沉香，桂皮，薰了我的榻。
	[bbe]	I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.
7:18	[hgb]	你来，我们可以饱享爱情，直到早晨。我们可以彼此亲爱欢乐。
	[bbe]	Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.
7:19	[hgb]	因为我丈夫不在家，出门行远路。
	[bbe]	For the master of the house is away on a long journey:
7:20	[hgb]	他手拿银囊。必到月望才回家。
	[bbe]	He has taken a bag of money with him; he is coming back at the full moon.
7:21	[hgb]	淫妇用许多巧言诱他随从，用谄媚的嘴逼他同行。
	[bbe]	With her fair words she overcame him, forcing him with her smooth lips.
7:22	[hgb]	少年人立刻跟随她，好像牛往宰杀之地，又像愚昧人带锁链，去受刑罚。
	[bbe]	The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;
7:23	[hgb]	直等箭穿他的肝，如同雀鸟急入网罗，却不知是自丧己命。
	[bbe]	Like a bird falling into a net; with no thought that his life is in danger, till an arrow goes into his side.
7:24	[hgb]	众子阿，现在要听从我，留心听我口中的话。
	[bbe]	So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;
7:25	[hgb]	你的心，不可偏向淫妇的道。不要入她的迷途。
	[bbe]	Let not your heart be turned to her ways, do not go wandering in her footsteps.
7:26	[hgb]	因为被她伤害仆倒的不少。被她杀戮的而且甚多。
	[bbe]	For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.
7:27	[hgb]	她的家是在阴间之路，下到死亡之宫。
	[bbe]	Her house is the way to the underworld, going down to the rooms of death.