读箴言，学做人（一）中英对照

箴言的價值 第1章　 1以色列王大衛兒子所羅門的1箴言: 【niv】The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel: 【nasb】The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel: 2要使人曉得智慧和訓誨，分辨通達的言語； 【niv】for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight; 【nasb】To know wisdom and instruction, To discern the sayings of understanding, 3使人處事，領受智慧、2仁義、公平、正直的訓誨； 【niv】for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair; 【nasb】To receive instruction in wise behavior, Righteousness, justice and equity; 4使愚人3靈明；使少年人有知識和謀略； 【niv】for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young- 【nasb】To give prudence to the naive, To the youth knowledge and discretion, 5使智慧人聽見，增長學4問；使聰明人得著智謀； 【niv】let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance- 【nasb】A wise man will hear and increase in learning, And a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel, 6使人明白箴言和譬喻，懂得智慧人的言詞和5謎語。 【niv】for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. 【nasb】To understand a proverb and a figure, The words of the wise and their riddles.

敬畏　神聽父母 7敬畏6耶和華是知識的開端；愚妄人藐視智慧和訓誨。 【niv】The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline. 【nasb】The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; Fools despise wisdom and instruction. 8我兒，要聽你7父親的訓誨；不可離棄你母親的法則(或作“指教”)。 【niv】Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 【nasb】Hear, my son, your father's instruction And do not forsake your mother's teaching; 9因為這要作你頭上的華冠，你8項上的金鏈。 【niv】They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. 【nasb】Indeed, they are a graceful wreath to your head And ornaments about your neck.

10我兒，惡人若引9誘你，你不可隨從。 【niv】My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them. 【nasb】My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent. 11他們若說:“你與我們同去，我們要10埋伏流人之血，要蹲伏害無罪之人。 【niv】If they say, 'Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul; 【nasb】If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait for blood, Let us ambush the innocent without cause; 12我們好象陰間，把他們活活吞下；他們如同下11坑的人，被我們囫圇吞了。 【niv】let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit; 【nasb】Let us swallow them alive like Sheol, Even whole, as those who go down to the pit; 13我們必得各樣寶物，將所擄來的裝滿房屋。 【niv】we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder; 【nasb】We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with spoil; 14你與我們大家同分，我們共用一個囊袋。” 【niv】throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse'- 【nasb】Throw in your lot with us, We shall all have one purse,"

15我兒，不要與他們同12行一道，禁止你13腳走他們的路； 【niv】my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths; 【nasb】My son, do not walk in the way with them. Keep your feet from their path, 16因為他們的腳奔跑行14惡，他們急速流人的血， 【niv】for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood. 【nasb】For their feet run to evil And they hasten to shed blood. 17好象飛鳥，網羅設在眼前仍不躲避。 【niv】How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds! 【nasb】Indeed, it is useless to spread the baited net In the sight of any bird; 18這些人埋伏，是為自流己血；蹲伏，是為自害己命。 【niv】These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves! 【nasb】But they lie in wait for their own blood; They ambush their own lives. 19凡15貪戀財利的，所行之路，都是如此；這貪戀之心，乃奪去得財者之命。 【niv】Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it. 【nasb】So are the ways of everyone who gains by violence; It takes away the life of its possessors.

警告勿拒智慧 20智慧在街市上呼16喊，在寬闊處發聲； 【niv】Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; 【nasb】Wisdom shouts in the street, She lifts her voice in the square; 21在熱鬧街頭喊叫，在城門口、在城中發出言語。 【niv】at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: 【nasb】At the head of the noisy streets she cries out; At the entrance of the gates in the city she utters her sayings:

22說:你們愚昧人喜愛愚昧，褻慢人喜歡褻慢，愚頑人恨惡知識，要到幾時呢? 【niv】'How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? 【nasb】"How long, O naive ones, will you love being simple-minded? And scoffers delight themselves in scoffing And fools hate knowledge? 23你們當因我的責備回轉，我要將我的靈17澆灌你們，將我的話指示你們。 【niv】If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you. 【nasb】"Turn to my reproof, Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you; I will make my words known to you. 24我呼18喚，你們不肯19聽從；我伸手，無人理會； 【niv】But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, 【nasb】"Because I called and you refused, I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention; 25反輕棄我一切的勸戒，不肯受我的責備。 【niv】since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, 【nasb】And you neglected all my counsel And did not want my reproof; 26你們遭災難，我就發20笑；驚恐臨到你們，我必嗤笑。 【niv】I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you- 【nasb】I will also laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your dread comes, 27驚21恐臨到你們，好象狂風；災難來到，如同暴風；急難痛苦臨到你們身上。 【niv】when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. 【nasb】When your dread comes like a storm And your calamity comes like a whirlwind, When distress and anguish come upon you. 28那時，你們必呼22求我，我卻不答應；懇切地尋找我，卻尋不見； 【niv】'Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. 【nasb】"Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently but they will not find me, 29因為你們恨23惡知識，不喜愛敬畏耶和華； 【niv】Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the Lord , 【nasb】Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of the LORD. 3024不聽我的勸25戒，藐視我一切的責備， 【niv】since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, 【nasb】"They would not accept my counsel, They spurned all my reproof. 31所以必吃26自結的果子，充滿自設的計謀。 【niv】they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. 【nasb】"So they shall eat of the fruit of their own way And be satiated with their own devices.

32愚昧人背道，必殺己身；愚頑人安逸，必害己命。 【niv】For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; 【nasb】"For the waywardness of the naive will kill them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them. 33惟有聽從我的，必27安然居住，得享安靜，不28怕災禍。 【niv】but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.' 【nasb】"But he who listens to me shall live securely And will be at ease from the dread of evil."