舊約 -- 箴言(Proverbs) -- 第23章
23:1 你若與官長坐席,要留意在你面前的是誰。
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
23:2 你若是貪食的,就當拿刀放在喉嚨上。
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
23:3 不可貪戀他的美食,因為是哄人的食物。
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
23:4 不要勞碌求富。休仗自己的聰明。
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
23:5 你豈要定睛在虛無的錢財上嗎。因錢財必長翅膀,如鷹向天飛去。
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
23:6 不要吃惡眼人的飯。也不要貪他的美味。
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
23:7 因為他心怎樣思量,他為人就是怎樣。他雖對你說,請吃,請喝。他的心卻與你向背。
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
23:8 你所吃的那點食物,必吐出來。你所說的甘美言語,也必落空。
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
23:9 你不要說話給愚昧人聽。因他必藐視你智慧的言語。
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
23:10 不可挪移古時的地界。也不可侵入孤兒的田地。
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
23:11 因為他們的救贖主,大有能力。他必向你為他們辨屈。
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
23:12 你要留心領受訓誨。側耳聽從知識的言語。
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
23:13 不可不管教孩童,你用杖打他,他必不至于死。
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
23:14 你要用杖打他,就可以救他的靈魂免下陰間。
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
23:15 我兒你心若存智慧,我的心也甚歡喜。
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
23:16 你的嘴若說正直話,我的心腸也必快樂。
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
23:17 你心中不要嫉妒罪人。只要終日敬畏耶和華。
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
23:18 因為至終必有善報。你的指望也不至斷絕。
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
23:19 我兒,你當聽,當存智慧,好在正道上引導你的心。
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
23:20 好飲酒的,好吃肉的,不要與他們來往。
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
23:21 因為好酒貪食的,必至貧窮。好睡覺的,必穿破爛衣服。
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
23:22 你要聽從生你的父親。你母親老了,也不可藐視他。
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23:23 你當買真理。就是智慧,訓誨,和聰明,也都不可賣。
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
23:24 義人的父親,必大得快樂。人生智慧的兒子,必因他歡喜。
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
23:25 你要使父母歡喜。使生你的快樂。
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
23:26 我兒,要將你的心歸我。你的眼目,也要喜悅我的道路。
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
23:27 妓女是深坑。外女是窄阱。
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
23:28 他埋伏好像強盜,他使人中多有奸詐的。
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
23:29 誰有禍患,誰有憂愁,誰有爭斗,誰有哀嘆,(或作怨言)誰無故受傷,誰眼目紅赤。
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
23:30 就是那流連飲酒,常去尋梢調和酒的人。
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
23:31 酒發紅,在杯中閃爍,你不可觀看,雖然下咽舒暢,終久是咬你如蛇,刺你如毒蛇。
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
23:32 * At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
23:33 你眼必看見異怪的事。(異怪的事或作淫婦)你心必發出乖謬的話。
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
23:34 你必像躺在海中,或像臥在桅桿上。
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
23:35 你必說,人打我,我卻未受傷,人鞭打我,我竟不覺得,我幾時清醒,我仍去尋酒。
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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