德訓篇/Sirach:Chapter 10
出自Chinese Catholic Bible
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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。 | 1 | There 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. |
| 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。 | 2 | All power is of short life. A long sickness is troublesome to the physician. |
| 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。 | 3 | The physician cutteth off it short sickness: so also a king is to day, and to morrow he shall die. |
| 4 | 統治大地的權柄，是在上主手裡，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。 | 4 | For when a man shall die, he shall inherit serpents, end beasts, and worms. |
| 5 | 民眾的福利，是在上主手裡，他必將自己的尊榮賜給立法者。 | 5 | The beginning of the pride of man, is to fall off from God: |
| 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。 | 6 | Because his heart is departed from him that made him: for pride is the beginning of all sin: be that holdeth it, shall be filled with maledictions, and it shall ruin him in the end. |
| 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。 | 7 | Therefore hath the Lord disgraced the assemblies of the wicked, and hath utterly destroyed them. |
| 8 | 因著不義、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。 | 8 | God hath overturned the thrones of proud princes, and hath set up the meek in their stead. |
| 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？ | 9 | God hath made the roots of proud nations to wither, and hath planted the humble of these nations. |
| 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，他雖然還活著，他的五臟郤已逐漸腐爛。 | 10 | The Lord hath overthrown the lands of the Gentiles, and hath destroyed them even to the foundation. |
| 11 | 一切政權的壽命，都是短促的。 | 11 | He hath made some of them to wither away, and hath destroyed them, and hath made the memory of them to cease from the earth. |
| 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。 | 12 | God hath abolished the memory of the proud, and hath preserved the memory of them that are humble in mind. |
| 13 | 人死之後,要得到的產業，是蛇、蛆、蟲。 | 13 | Pride was not made for men: nor wrath for the race of women. |
| 14 | 驕傲的開端，始於人背離上主， | 14 | That seed of men shall be honoured, which feareth God: but that seed shall be dishonoured, which transgresseth the commandments of the Lord. |
| 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。 | 15 | In the midst of brethren their chief is honourable: so shall they that fear the Lord, be in his eyes. |
| 16 | 為此，上主降下奇災異禍，把他們完全消滅。 | 16 | The fear of God is the glory of the rich, and of the honourable, and of the poor: |
| 17 | 上主推翻傲慢君主的寶座，使謙遜的人坐上他們的寶座。 | 17 | Despise not a just man that is poor, and do not magnify a sinful man that is rich. |
| 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。 | 18 | The great man, and the judge, and the mighty is in honour: and there is none greater than he that feareth God. |
| 19 | 上主推翻了異民的國家，將它們毀滅，直到地基； | 19 | They 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. |
| 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。 | 20 | Extol not thyself in doing thy work, and linger not in the time of distress: |
| 21 | 天主消滅傲慢人的紀念；心地謙遜人的紀念，反被保留。 | 21 | Better is he that laboureth, and aboundeth in all things, than he that boasteth himself and wanteth bread. |
| 22 | 為人，不應生驕傲；婦女所生的，也不應發憤怒。 | 22 | My son, keep thy soul in meekness, and give it honour according to its desert. |
| 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。 | 23 | Who will justify him that sinneth against his own soul? and who will honour him that dishonoureth his own soul? |
| 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。 | 24 | The poor man is glorified by his discipline and fear: and there is a man that is honoured for his wealth. |
| 25 | 富貴人、有名譽的人和貧窮人的光榮，就是在乎敬畏上主。 | 25 | But he that is glorified in poverty, how much more in wealth? and he that is glorified in wealth, let him fear poverty. |
| 26 | 不可藐視有智慧的窮人，也不可稱讚富有的罪人。 | 26 | |
| 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。 | 27 | |
| 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。 | 28 | |
| 29 | 工作時，不要投機取巧；貧窮時，不要誇張。 | 29 | |
| 30 | 勞而致富的人，勝於自大，而無以果腹的人。 | 30 | |
| 31 | 我兒，你要端莊，自重自愛，對自己應保持相稱的尊重。 | 31 | |
| 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？ | 32 | |
| 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。 | 33 | |
| 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？ | 34 | |
