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箴言-Proverbs 第 23 章

23:1	你若與官長坐席，要留意在你麵前的是誰。 When you sit to eat with a ruler, Consider carefully who is before you;
23:2	你若是貪食的，就當拿刀放在喉嚨上。 And put a knife to your throat If you are a man of great appetite.
23:3	不可貪戀他的美食，因為那是騙人的食物。 Do not desire his delicacies, For they are deceitful food.
23:4	不要勞碌求財富，要停下自己的思慮。 Do not weary yourself to become rich; Cease from your consideration of it.
23:5	你定睛在財富上，財富卻消失了；因財富必長翅膀，如鷹向天飛去。 When you set your eyes upon it, it is gone; For wealth certainly makes itself wings, Like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
23:6	不要吃嫉妒之人的飯，也不要貪他的美食； Do not eat the bread of one who is envious, And do not desire his delicacies;
23:7	因為他裏麵怎樣思量，他為人就是怎樣。他雖對你說，請吃，請喝，他的心卻與你相背。 For as he thinks within himself, so he is. He says to you, Eat and drink; But his heart is not with you.
23:8	你所吃的那點食物必吐出來，你所說的甘美言語也白說了。 You will vomit up the morsel which you have eaten, And waste your pleasant words.
23:9	你不要說話給愚昧人聽，因他必藐視你言語中的智慧。 Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
23:10	不可挪移古時的地界，也不可擅入孤兒的田地。 Do not remove the ancient boundary marker, Or go into the fields of the fatherless;
23:11	因他們的救贖主大有能力；祂必向你為他們辨屈。 For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against you.
23:12	你要留心領受訓誨，側耳聽從知識的言語。 Apply your heart to instruction, And your ears to words of knowledge.
23:13	不可不管教孩童；你用杖打他，他必不至於死。 Do not withhold correction from a child; If you beat him with the rod, he will not die.
23:14	你若用杖打他，就可以救他的魂免下陰間。 If you beat him with the rod, You will deliver his soul from Sheol.
23:15	我兒，你的心若有智慧，我的心也必喜樂。 My son, if your heart is wise, My own heart will also rejoice;
23:16	你的嘴若說正直話，我的心腸也必歡樂。 My inward parts will also exult, When your lips speak right things.
23:17	你的心不要嫉妒罪人，隻要終日敬畏耶和華； Do not let your heart envy sinners, But live in the fear of Jehovah all day long;
23:18	因為末後必有好結局，你的指望必不至斷絕。 For surely there is a latter end, And your hope will not be cut off.
23:19	我兒，你當聽，要有智慧，好在正路上引導你的心。 Listen, my son, and be wise, And direct your heart in the way.
23:20	不要在醉酒的和貪吃肉的人中間來往； Do not be among those who get drunk with wine, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh;
23:21	因為醉酒貪食的，必致貧窮；好睡覺的，必穿破爛衣服。 For the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, And drowsiness will clothe them with rags.
23:22	你要聽從生你的父親；你母親老了，也不可藐視她。 Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
23:23	你當買真理，不可出賣；要買智慧、訓誨和聰明。 Buy truth, and do not sell it; Buy wisdom and instruction and understanding.
23:24	義人的父親必大得快樂；人生智慧的兒子，必因他喜樂。 The father of the righteous man will greatly exult, And he who begets a wise child will rejoice in him.
23:25	你要使父母歡喜，使生你的快樂。 Let your father and your mother rejoice, And let her who bore you exult.
23:26	我兒，要將你的心歸我；你的眼目也要守住我的道路。 My son, give me your heart, And let your eyes observe my ways.
23:27	因為妓女是深坑，外女是窄井。 For a harlot is a deep pit, And an adulteress is a narrow well.
23:28	她埋伏好像強盜，她使人間增添奸詐的人。 Indeed, she lies in wait as a robber, And increases the number of the treacherous among men.
23:29	誰有禍患？誰有憂愁？誰有爭鬥？誰有怨言？誰無故受傷？誰眼目紅赤？ Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
23:30	就是那流連飲酒，常去尋找調和酒的人。 Those who linger late over wine, Those who go to seek out mixed wines.
23:31	你不可隻看酒發紅，在杯中閃爍，下咽舒暢； Do not look upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;
23:32	它終久要如蛇咬你，如毒蛇刺你。 In the end it bites like a serpent, And stings like an adder.
23:33	你眼必看見怪異的事，你心必發出乖謬的話； Your eyes will see strange things, And your heart will utter perverse things;
23:34	你必像躺在海中，或像臥在桅杆頂上。 And you will be like one who lies down while at sea, Or like one who lies down at 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；我幾時清醒呢？我還要去尋酒。 They struck me, you will say, but I was not hurt; They beat me, but I did not feel it; When will I awake? I will seek another drink.

箴言-Proverbs 第 23 章