1My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger, (伯17:3)2if you are snared in the words of your mouth, caught in the words of your mouth, (箴5:22)3then do this, my son, and save yourself, for you have come into the hand of your neighbor: go, hasten,[1] and plead urgently with your neighbor. (路11:8; 路18:5)4Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber; (诗132:4; 箴20:13)5save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter,[2] like a bird from the hand of the fowler. (诗91:3)6Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. (伯12:7; 箴10:26; 箴23:19; 箴27:11; 箴30:25)7Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, (出5:6; 出5:15; 箴30:27)8she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest. (箴10:5)9How long will you lie there, O sluggard? When will you arise from your sleep? (箴6:6; 拿1:6)10A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, (箴24:33; 传4:5)11and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want like an armed man. (箴24:34)12A worthless person, a wicked man, goes about with crooked speech, (箴4:24; 箴16:27)13winks with his eyes, signals[3] with his feet, points with his finger, (诗35:19; 箴10:10)14with perverted heart devises evil, continually sowing discord; (箴2:12; 箴3:29; 箴16:28; 弥2:1)15therefore calamity will come upon him suddenly; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing. (代下36:16; 箴29:1; 赛30:13; 耶19:11)16There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him: (伯5:19)17haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, (申19:10; 诗31:18; 诗101:5; 诗120:2; 箴8:13; 箴12:22; 箴16:5; 箴17:7; 箴21:4; 赛1:15; 赛59:3; 赛59:7)18a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, (创6:5; 箴1:16)19a false witness who breathes out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers. (诗27:12; 箴6:14; 箴12:17; 箴14:5; 箴14:25; 箴19:5; 箴19:9)
Warnings Against Adultery
20My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. (箴1:8)21Bind them on your heart always; tie them around your neck. (伯31:36; 箴3:3)22When you walk, they[4] will lead you; when you lie down, they will watch over you; and when you awake, they will talk with you. (箴2:11; 箴3:23)23For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching a light, and the reproofs of discipline are the way of life, (诗13:3; 诗119:105; 箴10:17)24to preserve you from the evil woman,[5] from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.[6] (箴2:16)25Do not desire her beauty in your heart, and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes; (王下9:30; 太5:28)26for the price of a prostitute is only a loaf of bread,[7] but a married woman[8] hunts down a precious life. (撒上2:36; 箴28:21; 箴29:3; 结13:18)27Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned? (伯31:12; 诗79:12)28Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched? (赛43:2)29So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished. (箴16:5)30People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his appetite when he is hungry, (伯38:39)31but if he is caught, he will pay sevenfold; he will give all the goods of his house. (出22:4; 诗79:12)32He who commits adultery lacks sense; he who does it destroys himself.33He will get wounds and dishonor, and his disgrace will not be wiped away.34For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge. (利20:10; 箴27:4; 歌8:6)35He will accept no compensation; he will refuse though you multiply gifts.