箴言篇/Proverbs:Chapter 23
出自Chinese Catholic Bible
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| 1 | 幾時你與首長坐席，應記著，在你面前的是誰。 | 1 | When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face. |
| 2 | 你若過於貪食，應在咽喉上，放上一把刀。 | 2 | And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power. |
| 3 | 休要羨慕他的珍饈，因那是騙人的食品。 | 3 | Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit. |
| 4 | 不要辛苦企求致富，反應放棄這種企圖。 | 4 | Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence. |
| 5 | 你向之一注目，即不再存在了：它會生出翅膀，如鷹向天飛去。 | 5 | Lift 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 | 不要與虎視眈眈的人進食，也不要羨慕他的山珍海味， | 6 | Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats: |
| 7 | 因為他原是只顧自己的人，他口頭雖對你說「請吃請喝！」但他的心中並不與你友善； | 7 | Because 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，還得吐出；你婉轉悅耳的言辭，盡屬枉費。 | 8 | The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words. |
| 9 | 不要與愚人交耳接談，因他必輕視你的高見。 | 9 | Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech. |
| 10 | 不要移動孀婦的地界，不要侵佔孤兒的田地； | 10 | Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless: |
| 11 | 因為他們的辯護者是大能的，他必為他們的案件與你爭辯。 | 11 | For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee. |
| 12 | 你應專心接受教訓，傾耳細聽益智之言。 | 12 | Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge. |
| 13 | 對孩童不可忽略懲戒；用棍打他，他不致死去。 | 13 | Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die. |
| 14 | 你用棍杖打他，是救他的靈魂免下陰府。 | 14 | Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell. |
| 15 | 我兒，你若心懷智慧，我也誠心喜樂； | 15 | My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee: |
| 16 | 你的唇舌若談吐正義的事，我的五衷也必會踴躍歡欣。 | 16 | And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right. |
| 17 | 心裡不要羨慕罪人，欲要日日敬畏上主； | 17 | Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long: |
| 18 | 這樣，你的將來必然順利，你的希望絕不落空。 | 18 | Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away. |
| 19 | 我兒，你要聽話，作個明智人；且要引領你的心走上正道。 | 19 | Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way. |
| 20 | 貪嗜酒肉的人，不可與之來往； | 20 | Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat: |
| 21 | 因為嗜酒貪食的人，必陷於窮困；貪懶好睡的人，必衣著襤褸。 | 21 | Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags. |
| 22 | 對生養你的父親，應當聽從；對你年邁的母親，不可輕視。 | 22 | Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old. |
| 23 | 應獲取真理，不可出賣，還有智慧、訓誨和見識。 | 23 | Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding. |
| 24 | 義人的父親，必欣然喜樂；生育慧子的，必為此歡騰。 | 24 | The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him. |
| 25 | 應使你的父親因你而喜悅，應使你的生母因你而快樂。 | 25 | Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee. |
| 26 | 我兒，將你的心交給我，注目於我的道路： | 26 | My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways. |
| 27 | 妓女是一個深坑，淫婦是一個陷阱； | 27 | For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit. |
| 28 | 她潛伏著，實如強盜，使人世間，增添奸夫。 | 28 | She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill. |
| 29 | 是誰將哀鳴，是誰將悲嘆？是誰將爭吵，是誰將抱怨？是誰將無故受傷，是誰將赤紅？ | 29 | Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes? |
| 30 | 是那流連於醉鄉，去搜求醇酒的人。 | 30 | Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups. |
| 31 | 你不要注視酒色怎樣紅，在杯中怎樣閃耀，飲下去怎樣痛快！ | 31 | Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly, |
| 32 | 終究它要咬人如蛇，刺人如虺。 | 32 | But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk. |
| 33 | 那時，你的眼要見到奇景，你的心要吐出狂語。 | 33 | Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things. |
| 34 | 你宛如躺在海中心，睡在桅杆頂。 | 34 | And 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，我不覺；我何時甦醒，好再去尋醉！」 | 35 | And 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? |
