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箴言-Proverbs 第 8 章

8:1	智慧豈不呼叫？聰明豈不揚聲？ Does not wisdom call, And understanding lift up her voice?
8:2	她在路旁高處的頂上，在十字路口站立； On the top of the heights, by the way, Where the paths meet, she takes her stand;
8:3	在城門旁，在城門口，在城門的出入處大聲呼喊： Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the entrance of the doors, she cries aloud:
8:4	眾人哪，我呼叫你們，我向世人發聲，說， To you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
8:5	愚蒙人哪，你們要會悟靈明；愚昧人哪，你們當心裏明白。 O simple ones, understand prudence; And, O fools, be of an understanding heart.
8:6	你們當聽，因我要說尊高的事；我張嘴要論正直的事。 Hear, for I will speak noble things; And the opening of my lips will yield right things.
8:7	我的口要發出真理，我的嘴憎惡邪惡。 For my mouth will utter truth, And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
8:8	我口中的言語都是公義，其中並無彎曲乖僻。 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing twisted or crooked in them.
8:9	這些言語對明達的人，是正直的；對有知識的人，是正確的。 They are all straight to him who understands, And right to those who find knowledge.
8:10	你們當受我的訓誨，不受銀子；寧得知識，勝得精金。 Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
8:11	因為智慧比珊瑚更美，一切可喜愛的都不足與比較。 For wisdom is better than corals, And nothing that you desire compares with her.
8:12	我智慧與靈明同居，又尋得知識和謀略。 I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, And I find knowledge and discretion.
8:13	敬畏耶和華就要恨惡邪惡；驕傲、狂妄、惡道、以及乖謬的口，都為我所恨惡。 The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth, I hate.
8:14	我有計謀和真智慧；我乃聰明，我有能力。 Counsel is mine and sound wisdom; I am understanding; I have might.
8:15	帝王藉我掌權，君王藉我定公平。 By me kings reign, And rulers decree justice.
8:16	首領和貴胄－世上一切公正的審判官，都是藉我掌權。 By me princes rule, And nobles-all who judge righteously.
8:17	愛我的，我也愛他；殷切尋求我的，就必尋見。 I love those who love me, And those who seek me diligently will find me.
8:18	豐富和尊榮在我，恒久的貲財和公義也在我。 Riches and honor are with me, Enduring wealth and righteousness.
8:19	我的果實勝過金子，強如精金；我的出產超乎精選的銀子。 My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold; And my yield than choice silver.
8:20	我走在公義的道路上，行在公平的途徑中， I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice,
8:21	使愛我的承受資產，並充滿他們的府庫。 That I may cause those who love me to inherit substance And that I may fill their treasuries.
8:22	耶和華在祂造化的起頭，在太初造作萬物之先，就有了我。 Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of His way, Before His works of old.
8:23	從亙古，從太初，未有大地以前，我已被立。 I was set up from eternity, From the beginning, before the earth was.
8:24	未有深淵，未有滿溢的水泉以先，我已生出。 When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
8:25	大山未曾奠定，小山未有以先，我已生出； Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills, I was brought forth;
8:26	那時耶和華還沒有造出大地和田野，並世上最初的塵土。 When He had not yet made the earth and the fields, Nor the first dust of the world.
8:27	祂立諸天，我在那裏；祂在淵麵周圍，畫出圓圈， When He established the heavens, I was there; When He inscribed a circle upon the surface of the deep,
8:28	上使穹蒼堅硬，下使淵源穩固， When He made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,
8:29	為滄海定出界限，使水不越過祂的命令，畫定大地的根基； When He set for the sea its boundary, That the waters should not transgress His commandment, When He marked out the foundations of the earth;
8:30	那時我在祂旁邊為工師，日日為祂所喜愛，常常在祂麵前歡躍， Then I was by Him, as a master workman; And I was daily His delight, Rejoicing always before Him,
8:31	歡躍於祂所豫備居人之地；並且世人是我所喜愛的。 Rejoicing in His habitable earth; And my delight was in the sons of men.
8:32	眾子阿，現在要聽從我；因為謹守我道路的，便為有福。 Now therefore, my sons, listen to me; For blessed are they who keep my ways.
8:33	要聽訓誨，要有智慧，不可輕忽。 Hear instruction, and be wise; And do not neglect it.
8:34	聽從我，日日在我門口儆醒，在我門框旁邊守候的，那人便為有福。 Blessed is the man who listens to me, Watching daily at my doors, Waiting at my doorposts.
8:35	因為尋得我的，就尋得生命，也必從耶和華得恩惠。 For whoever finds me finds life, And will obtain favor from Jehovah.
8:36	但得罪我的，卻害自己的性命；恨惡我的，都喜愛死亡。 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul; All who hate me love death.

箴言-Proverbs 第 8 章