箴言 Proverbs

23:1	[hgb]	你若与官长坐席，要留意在你面前的是谁。
	[bbe]	When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
23:2	[hgb]	你若是贪食的，就当拿刀放在喉咙上。
	[bbe]	And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
23:3	[hgb]	不可贪恋他的美食，因为是哄人的食物。
	[bbe]	Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
23:4	[hgb]	不要劳碌求富。休仗自己的聪明。
	[bbe]	Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
23:5	[hgb]	你岂要定睛在虚无的钱财上吗？因钱财必长翅膀，如鹰向天飞去。
	[bbe]	Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
23:6	[hgb]	不要吃恶眼人的饭。也不要贪他的美味。
	[bbe]	Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
23:7	[hgb]	因为他心怎样思量，他为人就是怎样。他虽对你说，请吃，请喝。他的心却与你相背。
	[bbe]	For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
23:8	[hgb]	你所吃的那点食物，必吐出来。你所说的甘美言语，也必落空。
	[bbe]	The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
23:9	[hgb]	你不要说话给愚昧人听。因他必藐视你智慧的言语。
	[bbe]	Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
23:10	[hgb]	不可挪移古时的地界。也不可侵入孤儿的田地。
	[bbe]	Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
23:11	[hgb]	因他们的救赎主，大有能力。他必向你为他们辨屈。
	[bbe]	For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
23:12	[hgb]	你要留心领受训诲。侧耳听从知识的言语。
	[bbe]	Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
23:13	[hgb]	不可不管教孩童，你用杖打他，他必不至于死。
	[bbe]	Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
23:14	[hgb]	你要用杖打他，就可以救他的灵魂免下阴间。
	[bbe]	Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
23:15	[hgb]	我儿你心若存智慧，我的心也甚欢喜。
	[bbe]	My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
23:16	[hgb]	你的嘴若说正直话，我的心肠也必快乐。
	[bbe]	And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
23:17	[hgb]	你心中不要嫉妒罪人。只要终日敬畏耶和华。
	[bbe]	Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
23:18	[hgb]	因为至终必有善报。你的指望也不至断绝。
	[bbe]	For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
23:19	[hgb]	我儿，你当听，当存智慧，好在正道上引导你的心。
	[bbe]	Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
23:20	[hgb]	好饮酒的，好吃肉的，不要与他们来往。
	[bbe]	Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
23:21	[hgb]	因为好酒贪食的，必致贫穷。好睡觉的，必穿破烂衣服。
	[bbe]	For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
23:22	[hgb]	你要听从生你的父亲。你母亲老了，也不可藐视她。
	[bbe]	Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
23:23	[hgb]	你当买真理。就是智慧，训诲，和聪明，也都不可卖。
	[bbe]	Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
23:24	[hgb]	义人的父亲，必大得快乐。人生智慧的儿子，必因他欢喜。
	[bbe]	The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
23:25	[hgb]	你要使父母欢喜。使生你的快乐。
	[bbe]	Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
23:26	[hgb]	我儿，要将你的心归我。你的眼目，也要喜悦我的道路。
	[bbe]	My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
23:27	[hgb]	妓女是深坑。外女是窄阱。
	[bbe]	For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
23:28	[hgb]	她埋伏好像强盗，她使人中多有奸诈的。
	[bbe]	Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
23:29	[hgb]	谁有祸患，谁有忧愁，谁有争斗，谁有哀叹，（或作怨言）谁无故受伤，谁眼目红赤。
	[bbe]	Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
23:30	[hgb]	就是那流连饮酒，常去寻找调和酒的人。
	[bbe]	Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
23:31	[hgb]	酒发红，在杯中闪烁，你不可观看，虽然下咽舒畅，终久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。
	[bbe]	Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
23:32	[hgb]
	[bbe]	In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
23:33	[hgb]	你眼必看见异怪的事。（异怪的事或作淫妇）你心必发出乖谬的话。
	[bbe]	Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
23:34	[hgb]	你必像躺在海中，或像卧在桅杆上。
	[bbe]	Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
23:35	[hgb]	你必说，人打我，我却未受伤，人鞭打我，我竟不觉得，我几时清醒，我仍去寻酒。
	[bbe]	They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.