箴言 Proverbs

27:1	[hgb]	不要为明日自夸，因为一日要生何事，你尚且不能知道。
	[bbe]	Do not make a noise about tomorrow, for you are not certain what a day's outcome may be.
27:2	[hgb]	要别人夸奖你，不可用口自夸。等外人称赞你，不可用嘴自称。
	[bbe]	Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.
27:3	[hgb]	石头重，沙土沉，愚妄人的恼怒，比这两样更重。
	[bbe]	A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.
27:4	[hgb]	忿怒为残忍，怒气为狂澜，惟有嫉妒，谁能敌得住呢？
	[bbe]	Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
27:5	[hgb]	当面的责备，强如背地的爱情。
	[bbe]	Better is open protest than love kept secret.
27:6	[hgb]	朋友加的伤痕，出于忠诚，仇敌连连亲嘴，却是多余。
	[bbe]	The wounds of a friend are given in good faith, but the kisses of a hater are false.
27:7	[hgb]	人吃饱了，厌恶蜂房的蜜。人饥饿了，一切苦物都觉甘甜。
	[bbe]	The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.
27:8	[hgb]	人离本处飘流，好像雀鸟离窝游飞。
	[bbe]	Like a bird wandering from the place of her eggs is a man wandering from his station.
27:9	[hgb]	膏油与香料，使人心喜悦。朋友诚实的劝教，也是如此甘美。
	[bbe]	Oil and perfume make glad the heart, and the wise suggestion of a friend is sweet to the soul.
27:10	[hgb]	你的朋友，和父亲的朋友，你都不可离弃。你遭难的日子，不要上弟兄的家去。相近的邻舍，强如远方的弟兄。
	[bbe]	Do not give up your friend and your father's friend; and do not go into your brother's house in the day of your trouble: better is a neighbour who is near than a brother far off.
27:11	[hgb]	我儿，你要作智慧人，好叫我的心欢喜，使我可以回答那讥诮我的人。
	[bbe]	My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
27:12	[hgb]	通达人见祸藏躲。愚蒙人前往受害。
	[bbe]	The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.
27:13	[hgb]	谁为生人作保，就拿谁的衣服。谁为外女作保，谁就承当。
	[bbe]	Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.
27:14	[hgb]	清晨起来，大声给朋友祝福的，就算是咒诅他。
	[bbe]	He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.
27:15	[hgb]	大雨之日连连滴漏，和争吵的妇人一样。
	[bbe]	Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
27:16	[hgb]	想拦阻她的，便是拦阻风，也是右手抓油。
	[bbe]	He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
27:17	[hgb]	铁磨铁，磨出刃来。朋友相感，（原文作磨朋友的脸）也是如此。
	[bbe]	Iron makes iron sharp; so a man makes sharp his friend.
27:18	[hgb]	看守无花果树的，必吃树上的果子。敬奉主人的，必得尊荣。
	[bbe]	Whoever keeps a fig-tree will have its fruit; and the servant waiting on his master will be honoured.
27:19	[hgb]	水中照脸，彼此相符。人与人，心也相对。
	[bbe]	Like face looking at face in water, so are the hearts of men to one another.
27:20	[hgb]	阴间和灭亡，永不满足。人的眼目，也是如此。
	[bbe]	The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.
27:21	[hgb]	鼎为炼银，炉为炼金，人的称赞也试炼人。
	[bbe]	The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.
27:22	[hgb]	你虽用杵，将愚妄人与打碎的麦子一同捣在臼中，他的愚妄还是离不了他。
	[bbe]	Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.
27:23	[hgb]	你要详细知道你羊群的景况。留心料理你的牛群。
	[bbe]	Take care to have knowledge about the condition of your flocks, looking well after your herds;
27:24	[hgb]	因为赀财不能永有。冠冕岂能存到万代。
	[bbe]	For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
27:25	[hgb]	干草割去，嫩草发现，山上的菜蔬，也被收敛。
	[bbe]	The grass comes up and the young grass is seen, and the mountain plants are got in.
27:26	[hgb]	羊羔之毛，是为你作衣服。山羊是为作田地的价值。
	[bbe]	The lambs are for your clothing, and the he-goats make the value of a field:
27:27	[hgb]	并有母山羊奶够你吃，也够你的家眷吃，且够养你的婢女。
	[bbe]	There will be goats' milk enough for your food, and for the support of your servant-girls.