| Proverbs chapter 005 |
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| 001 | 我兒，要留心我智慧的話語，側耳聽我聰明的言詞， | My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow your ear to my understanding:
| My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: |
| 002 | 為要使你謹守謀略，嘴唇保存知識。 | That you may regard discretion, and that your lips may keep knowledge.
| That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. |
| 003 | 因為外女（ strange woman）的嘴滴下蜂蜜；他的口比油更滑， | For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil:
| For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: |
| 004 | 至終卻苦似茵蔯，快如兩刃的刀。 | But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
| But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. |
| 005 | 他的腳，下入死地；他腳步，踏住地獄（hell）。 | Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell.
| Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. |
| 006 | 以致你（thou）找不著生命平坦的道。他的路變遷不定，你不能（thou canst not）知道。 | Lest you should ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that you can not know them.
| Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. |
| 007 | 眾子啊，現在要聽從我；不可離棄我口中的話。 | Hear me now therefore, O all of you children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.
| Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. |
| 008 | 你所行的道要離他遠，不可就近他的房門， | Remove your way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:
| Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: |
| 009 | 恐怕將你的尊榮給別人，將你的歲月給殘忍的人； | Lest you give your honour unto others, and your years unto the cruel:
| Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: |
| 010 | 恐怕外人滿得你的力量，你勞碌得來的，歸入外人的家； | Lest strangers be filled with your wealth; and your labours be in the house of a stranger;
| Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; |
| 011 | 終久，你皮肉和身體消毀，你就悲歎， | And you mourn at the last, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
| And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, |
| 012 | 說：我怎麼恨惡訓誨，心中藐視責備， | And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;
| And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; |
| 013 | 也不聽從我師傅的話，又不側耳聽那教訓我的人？ | And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me!
| And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! |
| 014 | 我在聖會裡，幾乎落在諸般惡中。 | I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly.
| I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. |
| 015 | 你要喝自己池中的水，飲自己井裡的活水。 | Drink waters out of your own cistern, and running waters out of your own well.
| Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. |
| 016 | 你的泉源應當（Let）漲溢在外，你的河水也當（Let）流在街上？ | Let your fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
| Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. |
| 017 | 惟獨歸你一人，不可與外人同用。 | Let them be only your own, and not strangers' with you.
| Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. |
| 018 | 要使你的泉源蒙福；要與（with）你幼年所娶的妻同樂（rejoice）。 | Let your fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of your youth.
| Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. |
| 019 | 要使（Let）他如可愛的麀鹿，可喜的母鹿；願他的胸懷使你時時知足，他的愛情使你常常戀慕。 | Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy you at all times; and be you
ravished always with her love.
| 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. |
| 020 | 我兒，你為何戀慕外女（ strange woman）？為何抱外人（stranger）的胸懷？ | And why will you, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger?
| And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? |
| 021 | 因為，人所行的道都在耶和華眼前；他也修平人一切的路。 | For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his activities.
| For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. |
| 022 | 惡人必被自己的罪孽捉住；他必被自己的罪惡如繩索纏繞。 | His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be held with the cords of his sins.
| His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. |
| 023 | 他因不受訓誨就必死亡；又因愚昧過甚，必走差了路。 | He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.
| He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. |
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