【箴言篇】第七章 << 上一章下一章 >>

7:1 我儿，你要持守我的训言，把我的诫命藏在心中；
My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands.

7:2 你要遵守我的诫命，好叫你得以生存；应恪守我的教训，象保护你眼中的瞳人。
Keep my commands and live, my teaching as the apple of your eye;

7:3 应将我的诫命系在指间，刻在心上；
Bind them on your fingers, write them on the tablet of your heart.

7:4 应对智慧说：「你是我的姊妹，」并应称睿智为你的女友，
Say to Wisdom, "You are my sister!" call Understanding, "Friend!"

7:5 好能保护你远避奸妇，即那甜言蜜语的淫妇。
That they may keep you from another’s wife, from the adulteress with her smooth words.

7:6 我曾由我家的窗口，透过窗格往外观看，
For at the window of my house, through my lattice I looked out ?

7:7 分明看见在愚昧人中，在少年人中，有一个无知的少年，
And I saw among the simple ones, I observed among the young men, a youth with no sense,

7:8 沿着淫妇屋角的街道经过，向她的住宅走去，
Going along the street near the corner, then walking in the direction of her house ?

7:9 那时正是黄昏，日已西沉，已入黝黑深夜。
In the twilight, at dusk of day, at the time of the dark of night.

7:10 看，有一个女人向他迎面而来──她身穿妓装，存心不轨；
And lo! the woman comes to meet him, robed like a harlot, with secret designs ?

7:11 她健谈好荡，不能停留家中：
She is fickle and unruly, in her home her feet cannot rest;

7:12 一会在街头，一会在市场，在每个角落上兜搭──
Now she is in the streets, now in the open squares, and at every corner she lurks in ambush ?

7:13 她遂上前拥抱那少年，与他接吻，嬉皮笑脸对他说：「
When she seizes him, she kisses him, and with an impudent look says to him:

7:14 我原许过愿，要献和平祭，今日才得偿还我许的愿。
"I owed peace offerings, and today I have fulfilled my vows;

7:15 所以我走了出来，好能与你相遇；我急切寻找你，可好现在我见到了你。
So I came out to meet you, to look for you, and I have found you!

7:16 我的床榻已铺设了绒毯，放上了埃及的线绣卧单；
With coverlets I have spread my couch, with brocaded cloths of Egyptian linen;

7:17 又用没药、芦荟和肉桂熏了我的睡床。
I have sprinkled my bed with myrrh, with aloes, and with cinnamon.

7:18 来让我们通宵达旦，饱享爱情；让我们在欢爱中尽情取乐，
"Come, let us drink our fill of love, until morning, let us feast on love!

7:19 因为我的丈夫现不在家，他已出外远行，
For my husband is not at home, he has gone on a long journey;

7:20 随身带了钱囊，不到月圆不归家。」
A bag of money he took with him, not till the full moon will he return home."

7:21 淫妇用许多花言巧语笼络他，以谄言媚语勾引他。
She wins him over by her repeated urging, with her smooth lips she leads him astray;

7:22 少年遂跟她去了，好象一只引入屠场的公牛，又象一只自陷圈套的牡鹿，
He follows her stupidly, like an ox that is led to slaughter; Like a stag that minces toward the net,

7:23 直至箭矢射穿他的心肝；他还象一只跳入罗网的小鸟，不知这与他的性命有关。
till an arrow pierces its liver; Like a bird that rushes into a snare, unaware that its life is at stake.

7:24 现在，孩子!你们应听从我，留意我口中的训示：
So now, O children, listen to me, be attentive to the words of my mouth!

7:25 不要让你的心倾向她的道路，不要误入她的迷途，
Let not your heart turn to her ways, go not astray in her paths;

7:26 因为她使许多人倒地身亡，连最强健的，都作了她的牺牲。
For many are those she has struck down dead, numerous, those she has slain.

7:27 她的家是通往阴府的大道，是引入死境的斜坡。
Her house is made up of ways to the nether world, leading down into the chambers of death.

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