| KJV | BBE | KRV |
| 1 My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding: | 1 My son, give attention to my wisdom; let your ear be turned to my teaching: | 1 내 아들아 내 지혜에 주의하며 내 명철에 네 귀를 기울여서 |
| 2 That thou mayest regard discretion, and that thy lips may keep knowledge. | 2 So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge. | 2 근신을 지키며 네 입술로 지식을 지키도록 하라 |
| 3 For the lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her mouth is smoother than oil: | 3 For honey is dropping from the lips of the strange woman, and her mouth is smoother than oil; | 3 대저 음녀의 입술은 꿀을 떨어뜨리며 그 입은 기름보다 미끄러우나 |
| 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword. | 4 But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword; | 4 나중은 쑥 같이 쓰고 두 날 가진 칼 같이 날카로우며 |
| 5 Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. | 5 Her feet go down to death, and her steps to the underworld; | 5 그 발은 사지로 내려가며 그 걸음은 음부로 나아가나니 |
| 6 Lest thou shouldest ponder the path of life, her ways are moveable, that thou canst not know them. | 6 She never keeps her mind on the road of life; her ways are uncertain, she has no knowledge. | 6 그는 생명의 평탄한 길을 찾지 못하며 자기 길이 든든치 못하여도 그것을 깨닫지 못하느니라 |
| 7 Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth. | 7 Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you. | 7 그런즉 아들들아 나를 들으며 내 입의 말을 버리지 말고 |
| 8 Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house: | 8 Go far away from her, do not come near the door of her house; | 8 네 길을 그에게서 멀리하라 그 집 문에도 가까이 가지 말라 |
| 9 Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel: | 9 For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: | 9 두렵건대 네 존영이 남에게 잃어버리게 되며 네 수한이 잔포자에게 빼앗기게 될까 하노라 |
| 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours be in the house of a stranger; | 10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others; | 10 두렵건대 타인이 네 재물로 충족하게 되며 네 수고한 것이 외인의 집에 있게 될까 하노라 |
| 11 And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body are consumed, | 11 And you will be full of grief at the end of your life, when your flesh and your body are wasted; | 11 두렵건대 마지막에 이르러 네 몸, 네 육체가 쇠패할 때에 네가 한탄하여 |
| 12 And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof; | 12 And you will say, How was teaching hated by me, and my heart put no value on training; | 12 말하기를 내가 어찌하여 훈계를 싫어하며 내 마음이 꾸지람을 가벼이 여기고 |
| 13 And have not obeyed the voice of my teachers, nor inclined mine ear to them that instructed me! | 13 I did not give attention to the voice of my teachers, my ear was not turned to those who were guiding me! | 13 내 선생의 목소리를 청종치 아니하며 나를 가르치는 이에게 귀를 기울이지 아니하였던고 |
| 14 I was almost in all evil in the midst of the congregation and assembly. | 14 I was in almost all evil in the company of the people. | 14 많은 무리들이 모인 중에서 모든 악에 거의 빠지게 되었었노라 하게 될까 하노라 |
| 15 Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well. | 15 Let water from your store and not that of others be your drink, and running water from your fountain. | 15 너는 네 우물에서 물을 마시며 네 샘에서 흐르는 물을 마시라 |
| 16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets. | 16 Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places. | 16 어찌하여 네 샘물을 집 밖으로 넘치게 하겠으며 네 도랑물을 거리로 흘러가게 하겠느냐 |
| 17 Let them be only thine own, and not strangers' with thee. | 17 Let them be for yourself only, not for other men with you. | 17 그 물로 네게만 있게 하고 타인으로 더불어 그것을 나누지 말라 |
| 18 Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. | 18 Let blessing be on your fountain; have joy in the wife of your early years. | 18 네 샘으로 복되게 하라 네가 젊어서 취한 아내를 즐거워하라 |
| 19 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. | 19 As a loving hind and a gentle doe, let her breasts ever give you rapture; let your passion at all times be moved by her love. | 19 그는 사랑스러운 암사슴 같고 아름다운 암노루 같으니 너는 그 품을 항상 족하게 여기며 그 사랑을 항상 연모하라 |
| 20 And why wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of a stranger? | 20 Why let yourself, my son, go out of the way with a strange woman, and take another woman in your arms? | 20 내 아들아 어찌하여 음녀를 연모하겠으며 어찌하여 이방 계집의 가슴을 안겠느냐 |
| 21 For the ways of man are before the eyes of the LORD, and he pondereth all his goings. | 21 For a man's ways are before the eyes of the Lord, and he puts all his goings in the scales. | 21 대저 사람의 길은 여호와의 눈 앞에 있나니 그가 그 모든 길을 평탄케 하시느니라 |
| 22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall be holden with the cords of his sins. | 22 The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin. | 22 악인은 자기의 악에 걸리며 그 죄의 줄에 매이나니 |
| 23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray. | 23 He will come to his end for need of teaching; he is so foolish that he will go wandering from the right way. | 23 그는 훈계를 받지 아니함을 인하여 죽겠고 미련함이 많음을 인하여 혼미하게 되느니라 |