箴言:Chapter 23

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箴言:Chapter 23

箴言	Proverbs
¹几时你与首长坐席，应记着，在你面前的是谁。	¹When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.
²你若过于贪食，应在咽喉上，放上一把刀。	²And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
³休要羨慕他的珍馐，因那是骗人的食品。	³Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
⁴不要辛苦企求致富，反应放弃这种企图。	⁴Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
⁵你向之一注目，即不再存在了：它会生出翅膀，如鹰向天飞去。	⁵Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
⁶不要与虎视眈眈的人进食，也不要羨慕他的山珍海味，	⁶Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
⁷因为他原是只顾自己的人，他口头虽对你说「请吃请喝！」但他的心中并不与你友善；	⁷Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
⁸你吃下的那口食物，还得吐出；你婉转悦耳的言辞，尽属枉费。	⁸The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
⁹不要与愚人交耳接谈，因他必轻视你的高见。	⁹Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
¹⁰不要移动孀妇的地界，不要侵占孤儿的田地；	¹⁰Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
¹¹因为他们的辩护者是大能的，他必为他们的案件与你争辩。	¹¹For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
¹²你应专心接受教训，倾耳细听益智之言。	¹²Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
¹³对孩童不可忽略惩戒；用棍打他，他不致死去。	¹³Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
¹⁴你用棍杖打他，是救他的灵魂免下阴府。	¹⁴Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
¹⁵我儿，你若心怀智慧，我也诚心喜乐；	¹⁵My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
¹⁶你的唇舌若谈吐正义的事，我的五衷也必会踊跃欢欣。	¹⁶And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
¹⁷心里不要羨慕罪人，欲要日日敬畏上主；	¹⁷Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
¹⁸这样，你的将来必然顺利，你的希望绝不落空。	¹⁸Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
¹⁹我儿，你要听话，作个明智人；且要引领你的心走上正道。	¹⁹Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
²⁰贪嗜酒肉的人，不可与之来往；	²⁰Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
²¹因为嗜酒贪食的人，必陷于穷困；贪懒好睡的人，必衣着褴褛。	²¹Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
²²对生养你的父亲，应当听从；对你年迈的母亲，不可轻视。	²²Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
²³应获取真理，不可出卖，还有智慧、训诲和见识。	²³Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
²⁴义人的父亲，必欣然喜乐；生育慧子的，必为此欢腾。	²⁴The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
²⁵应使你的父亲因你而喜悦，应使你的生母因你而快乐。	²⁵Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
²⁶我儿，将你的心交给我，注目于我的道路：	²⁶My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
²⁷妓女是一个深坑，淫妇是一个陷阱；	²⁷For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
²⁸她潜伏着，实如强盗，使人世间，增添奸夫。	²⁸She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
²⁹是谁将哀鸣，是谁将悲叹？是谁将争吵，是谁将抱怨？是谁将无故受伤，是谁将双目赤红？	²⁹Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
³⁰是那流连于醉乡，去搜求醇酒的人。	³⁰Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.
³¹你不要注视酒色怎样红，在杯中怎样闪耀，饮下去怎样痛快！	³¹Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
³²终究它要咬人如蛇，刺人如虺。	³²But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
³³那时，你的眼要见到奇景，你的心要吐出狂语。	³³Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
³⁴你宛如躺在海中心，睡在桅杆顶。	³⁴And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.
³⁵「人打我，我不痛，人捶我，我不觉；我何时苏醒，好再去寻醉！」	³⁵And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake, and find wine again?

箴言:Chapter 23

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