Sirach:Chapter 4
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| 1我兒，不要拒絕救濟窮人生活的急需，也不要使急難人的眼目長久望着你。 | 1Son, defraud not the poor of alms, and turn not away thy eyes from the poor. |
| 2不要加增饑餓人的悲苦；也不要激怒困苦中的人。 | 2Despise not the hungry soul: and provoke not the poor in his want. |
| 3不要擾亂憂苦人的心靈，也不要遲延接濟有急難的人。 | 3Afflict not the heart of the needy, and defer not to give to him that is in distress. |
| 4不要拒絕痛苦而哀求的人，也不要轉臉不顧窮困的人。 | 4Reject not the petition of the afflicted: and turn not away thy face from the needy. |
| 5不要轉眼不顧乞丐，而叫他生氣，也不要讓他，那有求於你的人，背後咒罵你。 | 5Turn not away thy eyes from the poor for fear of anger: and leave not to them that ask of thee to curse thee behind thy back. |
| 6因為，人心在愁苦中，若咒罵了你，他的創造者必要垂聽他的哀求。 | 6For the prayer of him that curseth thee in the bitterness of his soul, shall be heard, for he that made him will hear him. |
| 7在窮人的集會前，你應表示和氣；在長老前，你應謙抑你的心靈；在官長前，你應低首下心。 | 7Make thyself affable to the congregation of the poor, and humble thy soul to the ancient, and bow thy head to a great man. |
| 8你要高興傾耳垂聽窮人，並歸還你的債務，又要和顏悅色地向他答禮。 | 8Bow down thy ear cheerfully to the poor, and pay what thou owest, and answer him peaceable words with mildness. |
| 9應從壓迫者的手中，拯救被壓迫的人；在宣判時，不應畏縮。 | 9Deliver him that suffereth wrong out of the hand of the proud: and be not fainthearted in thy soul. |
| 10對待孤兒應如慈父，扶助他們的母親，應如丈夫。 | 10In judging be merciful to the fatherless as a father, and as a husband to their mother. |
| 11如此，你纔算是至高者聽命的兒子，他必要比你的母親更愛你。 | 11And thou shalt be as the obedient son of the most High, and he will have mercy on thee more than a mother. |
| 12智慧舉揚自己的子孫，照顧尋找自己的人。在正義的路上，她要身為前導。 | 12Wisdom inspireth life into her children, and protecteth them that seek after her, and will go before them in the way of justice. |
| 13愛她的，就是愛生命；欣勤尋找她的，必能充滿喜樂。 | 13And he that loveth her, loveth life: and they that watch for her, shall embrace her sweetness. |
| 14佔有她的，必承受榮耀；她到那裏，上主就在那裏祝福。 | 14They that hold her fast, shall inherit life: and whithersoever she entereth, God will give a blessing. |
| 15凡事奉她的，就是事奉聖者；凡愛慕她的，上主也必愛他們。 | 15They that serve her, shall be servants to the holy one: and God loveth them that love her. |
| 16聽從她的，必能統治萬民；親近她的，必能安居度日。 | 16He that hearkeneth to her, shall judge nations: and he that looketh upon her, shall remain secure. |
| 17依賴她的，必能以她為產業；他的後裔也必佔有這份產業。 | 17If he trust to her, he shall inherit her, and his generation shall be in assurance. |
| 18因為，智慧先領他走彎曲的路，先試探他， | 18For she walketh with him in temptation, and at the first she chooseth him. |
| 19使他畏懼恐怖，用自己的紀律磨煉他，以自己的誡命試探他，直到對他有了信任為止。 | 19She will bring upon him fear and dread and trial: and she will scourge him with the affliction of her discipline, till she try him by her laws, and trust his soul. |
| 20然後，她要堅固他，再領他走直路，使他歡樂； | 20Then she will strengthen him, and make a straight way to him, and give him joy, |
| 21將自己的秘密啟示給他，使他富有知識和正義的智慧。 | 21And will disclose her secrets to him, and will heap upon him treasures of knowledge and understanding of justice. |
| 22若是他走入歧途，智慧就離棄他，任憑他喪亡。 | 22But if he go astray, she will forsake him, and deliver him into the hands of his enemy. |
| 23我兒，你要愛惜光陰，謹避邪惡； | 23Son, observe the time, and fly from evil. |
| 24不要做問心有愧的事。 | 24For thy soul be not ashamed to say the truth. |
| 25有一種羞愧帶來罪惡，又有一種羞愧卻帶來光榮和恩寵。 | 25For there is a shame that bringeth sin, and there is a shame that bringeth glory and grace. |
| 26你不要顧全臉面，而陷害你的靈魂；也不要說謊，而害你的靈魂。 | 26Accept no person against thy own person, nor against thy soul a lie. |
| 27你不要因羞怯而自取喪亡。 | 27Reverence not thy neighbour in his fall: |
| 28在救助人時，不要閉口無言，也不要把你的智慧隱藏不露。 | 28And refrain not to speak in the time of salvation. Hide not thy wisdom in her beauty. |
| 29因為由言談中，可以看出智慧；在答話上，可以現出明智；在正義的工作上，可以表現出意志的堅定。 | 29For by the tongue wisdom is discerned: and understanding, and knowledge, and learning by the word of the wise, and steadfastness in the works of justice. |
| 30不要出言反對真理；對你的無知，你當羞愧。 | 30In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance. |
| 31不要恥於承認你的罪過，不要阻止下流的河水。 | 31Be not ashamed to confess thy sins, but submit not thyself to every man for sin. |
| 32在糊塗人前，不要屈服，也不要顧全權威者的臉面。 | 32Resist not against the face of the mighty, and do not strive against the stream of the river. |
| 33至死要為真理奮鬥，上主天主必要助你作戰。 | 33Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto death fight for justice, and God will overthrow thy enemies for thee. |
| 34不要在唇舌上誇張，不要在行事上怠慢疏忽。 | 34Be not hasty in thy tongue: and slack and remiss in thy works. |
| 35你在家中，不要如同一隻獅子；對你的僕役，不要任性逞強，不要壓迫你的屬下。 | 35Be not as a lion in thy house, terrifying them of thy household, and oppressing them that are under thee. |
| 36你的手不要只為領取纔伸開，而在施恩時縮回。 | 36Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldst give. |
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