Sirach:Chapter 10
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| 1聰明的長官，必教導自己的百姓；賢明者的施政，必然有條理。 | 1A wise judge shall judge his people, and the government of a prudent man shall be steady. |
| 2人民的首領怎樣，他的屬下也怎樣；市長如何，所有市民也如何。 | 2As the judge of the people is himself, so also are his ministers: and what manner of man the ruler of a city is, such also are they that dwell therein. |
| 3品行不良的君王，必使人民喪亡；因首領的明智，市民必然增多。 | 3An unwise king shall be the ruin of his people: and cities shall be inhabited through the prudence of the rulers. |
| 4統治大地的權柄，是在上主手裏，萬邦的一切不義，是可咒罵的，到了指定的時刻，天主必給大地興起一位有才的人君。 | 4The power of the earth is in the hand of God, and in his time he will raise up a profitable ruler over it. |
| 5民眾的福利，是在上主手裏，他必將自己的尊榮賜給立法者。 | 5The prosperity of man is in the hand of God, and upon the person of the scribe he shall lay his honour. |
| 6不要因任何非理之事懷恨於人，也不要作出任何強橫的事。 | 6Remember not any injury done thee by thy neighbour, and do thou nothing by deeds of injury. |
| 7驕傲在上主及人前是可憎恨的，不義為上主及人是可厭惡的。 | 7Pride is hateful before God and men: and all iniquity of nations is execrable. |
| 8因着不義、驕橫和貪財，以及各種欺詐，統治權由這一民族，轉移到另一民族。 | 8A kingdom is translated from one people to another, because of injustices, and wrongs, and injuries, and divers deceits. |
| 9沒有什麼比貪財的人，更可憎惡；塵埃灰土的人，有什麼可驕傲的？ | 9But nothing is more wicked than the covetous man. Why is earth and ashes proud? |
| 10沒有什麼比愛錢更邪惡的，因為這樣的人，出賣自己的性命，他雖然還活着，他的五臟郤已逐漸腐爛。 | 10There is not a more wicked thing than to love money: for such a one setteth even his own soul to sale: because while he liveth he hath cast away his bowels. |
| 11一切政權的壽命，都是短促的。 | 11All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. |
| 12長久的疾病，令醫生生厭。今日是君王，明日即死去，就如醫生治療小病一樣的快速。 | 12The physician cutteth off a short sickness: so also a king is today, and tomorrow he shall die. |
| 13人死之後,要得到的產業，是蛇、蛆、蟲。 | 13For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, and beasts, and worms. |
| 14驕傲的開端，始於人背離上主， | 14The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: |
| 15始於人心遠離自己的創造者，因為驕傲是一切罪惡的起源；固執於驕傲的人，散佈可憎惡的事．有如雨點；最後必使他喪亡。 | 15Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: he that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. |
| 16為此，上主降下奇災異禍，把他們完全消滅。 | 16Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them. |
| 17上主推翻傲慢君主的寶座，使謙遜的人坐上他們的寶座。 | 17God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead. |
| 18上主拔除傲慢民族的根苗，在他們的地方，卻培植謙虛的人。 | 18God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations. |
| 19上主推翻了異民的國家，將它們毀滅，直到地基； | 19The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation. |
| 20將他們由本國逐出，盡行消滅，並將他們的紀念，從世上除去。 | 20He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth. |
| 21天主消滅傲慢人的紀念；心地謙遜人的紀念，反被保留。 | 21God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind. |
| 22為人，不應生驕傲；婦女所生的，也不應發憤怒。 | 22Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women. |
| 23甚麼種族是可尊敬的？是人類的種族；甚麼種族是可尊敬的？是敬畏上主的人們；甚麼種族是可輕視的？是人類的種族；甚麼種族是可輕視的？是違犯誡命的人們。 | 23That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord. |
| 24在兄弟們中，自己的領袖是可敬重的；敬畏上主的人們，在天主眼中，也是如此。 | 24In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes. |
| 25富貴人、有名譽的人和貧窮人的光榮，就是在乎敬畏上主。 | 25The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor: |
| 26不可藐視有智慧的窮人，也不可稱讚富有的罪人。 | 26Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich. |
| 27偉人、判官、權貴，都應受敬重；但是他們之中，沒有比敬畏上主的人更偉大。 | 27The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God. |
| 28自由的人服事明智的奴僕，明智而有紀律的人，雖受責備，仍不出怨言；不知敬畏天主的人，決不會受人敬重。 | 28They that are free shall serve a servant that is wise: and a man that is prudent and well instructed will not murmur when he is reproved; and he that is ignorant, shall not be honoured. |
| 29工作時，不要投機取巧；貧窮時，不要誇張。 | 29Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress: |
| 30勞而致富的人，勝於自大，而無以果腹的人。 | 30Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread. |
| 31我兒，你要端莊，自重自愛，對自己應保持相稱的尊重。 | 31My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert. |
| 32犯罪加害自己的人，誰能當他是義人？侮辱自己的人，誰又能尊重他？ | 32Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul? |
| 33貧苦人受人敬重，是因他的智慧，和敬畏天主之心；富貴人受人敬重，是因他的財富。 | 33The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear: and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth. |
| 34在窮苦中受尊敬的人，富有時，豈不更受尊敬？在富有時，還受輕視，在貧窮時，更將如何？ | 34But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty. |
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