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箴言-Proverbs 第 6 章

6:1	我兒，你若為鄰舍作保，替生人擊掌擔保， My son, if you have become a surety for your neighbor, If you have given your hands as a pledge for a stranger,
6:2	你就被口中的話語纏住，被嘴裏的言語捉住。 You are snared by the words of your mouth; You are caught by the words of your mouth.
6:3	我兒，你既落在鄰舍手中，就當這樣行才可救自己：你要去，降卑自己，懇求你的鄰舍。 Do this now, my son, and deliver yourself, Since you have come into the hand of your neighbor: Go, humble yourself, and plead with your neighbor.
6:4	不容你的眼睛睡覺，不容你的眼皮打盹。 Do not give sleep to your eyes, Nor slumber to your eyelids.
6:5	要救自己，如羚羊脫離獵戶的手，如鳥脫離捕鳥人的手。 Deliver yourself like a gazelle from the hunter's hand And like a bird from the fowler's hand.
6:6	懶惰人哪，你去察看螞蟻的行徑，就可得智慧。 Go to the ant, you sluggard; Consider its ways, and be wise,
6:7	螞蟻沒有元帥，沒有官長，沒有統管， Which, having no chief, Officer, or ruler,
6:8	尚且在夏天豫備食物，在收割時聚斂糧食。 Prepares its food in summer And gathers its sustenance in the harvest.
6:9	懶惰人哪，你要躺臥到幾時呢？你何時睡醒起來呢？ How long, sluggard, will you lie there? When will you arise from your sleep?
6:10	再睡片時，打盹片時，抱著手躺臥片時， A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest,
6:11	你的貧窮就必如強盜來臨，你的缺乏就必如拿兵器的人來到。 And your poverty will come upon you like a robber, And your want, like an armed man.
6:12	卑劣之徒，作惡之人，行事滿口乖僻， A worthless man, a wicked man, Goes around with a perverse mouth,
6:13	擠眉弄眼，用腳示意，用指點劃， Winking with his eyes, signaling with his feet, Pointing with his fingers;
6:14	心存乖僻，常設惡謀，布散紛爭。 With perverseness in his heart, he is devising evil continually; He injects discord.
6:15	所以，災難必忽然臨到；他必頃刻破敗，無法可治。 Therefore his calamity will come suddenly; In a moment he will be broken, and there will be no remedy.
6:16	耶和華所恨惡的有六樣，連祂魂所憎惡的共有七樣， There are six things that Jehovah hates; Indeed, seven that are an abomination to His soul:
6:17	就是高傲的眼、撒謊的舌、流無辜人血的手、 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood,
6:18	圖謀惡計的心、飛跑行惡的腳、 A heart that devises wicked schemes, Feet that hurry to run to evil,
6:19	吐謊言的假見證人、並在弟兄中布散紛爭的人。 A false witness who utters lies, And one who injects discord among brothers.
6:20	我兒，要謹守你父親的誡命，不可離棄你母親的指教， My son, keep the commandment of your father, And do not reject the teaching of your mother;
6:21	要常係在你心上，綁在你頸項上。 Bind them continually on your heart; Tie them around your neck.
6:22	你行走，它必引導你；你躺臥，它必看守你；你睡醒，它必與你談論。 When you walk about, it will guide you, When you lie down, it will watch over you; And when you awake, it will talk with you.
6:23	因為誡命是燈，指教是光，訓誨的責備是生命的道路， For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching a light, And the reproofs of instruction are the way of life,
6:24	能保守你遠離惡婦，遠離外女油滑的舌頭。 To keep you from the evil woman, From the smooth tongue of the adulteress.
6:25	你心中不要貪戀她的美色，也不要被她的眼皮勾引； Do not desire her beauty in your heart, Nor let her catch you with her eyelids;
6:26	因為妓女的代價隻是一塊餅；淫婦卻獵取人寶貴的性命。 For the price of a harlot is a loaf of bread, But the wife of another man hunts for the precious soul.
6:27	人若懷裏搋火，衣服豈能不燒著呢？ Can a man take fire in his bosom And his clothes not be burned?
6:28	人若在火炭上走，腳豈能不灼傷呢？ Can a man walk on hot coals And his feet not be scorched?
6:29	與鄰舍之妻同寢的，也是如此；凡挨觸她的，必難免受罰。 So it is with him who goes in to his neighbor's wife; No one who touches her will be unpunished.
6:30	賊因饑餓偷竊充饑，人不藐視他； The thief is not despised if he steals To satisfy himself when he is hungry;
6:31	他若被發現，就要賠還七倍，要將家中所有的盡都交出。 But if he is found out, he shall restore sevenfold; He must give over all the substance of his house.
6:32	與婦人行淫的，便是無知；行這事的，自毀性命。 He who commits adultery with a woman lacks sense; He who does it destroys his own soul.
6:33	他必受傷損，遭淩辱；他的羞恥不得塗抹。 He will find wounds and dishonor, And his reproach will not be wiped away.
6:34	因為嫉恨乃是男人的烈怒，在報仇的日子絕不留情。 For jealousy is the rage of a man, And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
6:35	什麼贖價，他都不顧；你雖送許多禮物，他也不肯幹休。 He will not regard any ransom, Nor will he be content if you give him great gifts.

箴言-Proverbs 第 6 章