箴言:Chapter 27

Proverbs:Chapter 27

箴言	Proverbs
¹不要為明日自誇，因為你不知今天能發生什麼。	¹Boast not of tomorrow, for you know not what any day may bring forth.
²只應讓人讚美你，你不應開口自誇；讚你的該是他人，不該是你的唇舌。	²Let another praise you - not your own mouth; Someone else - not your own lips.
³石頭重，沙礫沉，愚人的忿怒，比二者都重。	³Stone is heavy, and sand a burden, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.
⁴憤怒固然殘酷，暴怒更是猛烈；可是面對妒恨，有誰能夠抵受？	⁴Anger is relentless, and wrath overwhelming - but before jealousy who can stand?
⁵公開的責斥，勝於暗中的溺愛。	⁵Better is an open rebuke than a love that remains hidden.
⁶友人的抨擊是忠誠，仇人的擁吻是欺騙。	⁶Wounds from a friend may be accepted as well meant, but the greetings of an enemy one prays against.
⁷人若吃飽了，蜂蜜也厭惡；若肚子饑餓，苦物也甘甜。	⁷One who is full, tramples on virgin honey; but to the man who is hungry, any bitter thing is sweet.
⁸離家飄泊的遊子，有如無巢可歸的雀鳥。	⁸Like a bird that is far from its nest is a man who is far from his home.
⁹香油和香料，能暢快人心；朋友的勸勉，能撫慰人靈。	⁹Perfume and incense gladden the heart, but by grief the soul is torn asunder.
¹⁰你的知心朋友，你父親的至交，你切不可離棄；在你憂患的時日，不要進兄弟的家。靠近的鄰舍，勝於遠地的兄弟。	¹⁰Your own friend and your father's friend forsake not; but if ruin befalls you, enter not a kinsman's house. Better is a neighbor near at hand than a brother far away.
¹¹我兒，作個智慧人，使我心高興，好叫我回答笑罵我的人。	¹¹If you are wise, my son, you will gladden my heart, and I will be able to rebut him who tuants me.
¹²精明人遇見災禍，即行隱避；無知者反向前走，自招損害。	¹²The shrewd man perceives evil and hides; simpletons continue on and suffer the penalty.
¹³誰為外方人作保，拿出他的衣服；誰為異族人作保，以他本人作質。	¹³Take his garment who becomes surety for another, and for the sake of a stranger, yield it up!
¹⁴清晨向人高聲祝福，就等於向他人咀咒。	¹⁴When one greets his neighbor with a loud voice in the early morning, a curse can be laid to his charge.
¹⁵豪雨的時日，滴漏不已：好吵的女人，也是如此；	¹⁵For a persistent leak on a rainy day the match is a quarrelsome woman.
¹⁶誰願意攔阻她，無異攔阻狂風，又好似右手抓油。	¹⁶He who keeps her stores up a stormwind; he cannot tell north from south.
¹⁷朋友互相砥礪，有如以鐵銼鐵。	¹⁷As iron sharpens iron, so man sharpens his fellow man.
¹⁸看守無花果樹的，必食其果；護守自己主人的，必受器重。	¹⁸He who tends a fig tree eats its fruit, and he who is attentive to his master will be enriched.
¹⁹人心不同，猶如其面。	¹⁹As one face differs from another, so does one human heart from another.
²⁰陰府如冥域，總填不滿；世人的眼睛，從不滿足。	²⁰The nether world and the abyss are never satisfied; so too the eyes of men.
²¹鍋煉銀，爐煉金，諂媚煉人心。	²¹As the crucible tests silver and the furnace gold, so a man is tested by the praise he receives.
²²你盡可在臼中將愚人舂碎，但他的昏愚卻永不能剷除。	²²Though you should pound the fool to bits with the pestle, amid the grits in a mortar, his folly would not go out of him.
²³對你羊群的情況，應如注意；對你的家畜，應常留心照料；	²³Take good care of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds;
²⁴因為錢財並不能永存，寶藏也不能永留萬代。	²⁴For wealth lasts not forever, nor even a crown from age to age.
²⁵割去了乾草，青草又叢生；山間的野草，也收集起來；	²⁵When the grass is taken away and the aftergrowth appears, and the mountain greens are gathered in,
²⁶那時羔羊供你衣料，山羊供你地價，	²⁶The lambs will provide you with clothing, and the goats will bring the price of a field,
²⁷羊奶足以養你，維持你的家庭，養活你的婢女。	²⁷And there will be ample goat's milk to supply you, to supply your household, and maintenance for your maidens.

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