| | 1 | 以色列王大卫儿子所罗门的箴言。
The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
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| | 2 | 要使人晓得智慧和训诲。分辨通达的言语。
for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight;
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| | 3 | 使人处事，领受智慧，仁义，公平，正直的训诲。
for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair;
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| | 4 | 使愚人灵明，使少年人有知识和谋略。
for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young--
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| | 5 | 使智慧人听见，增长学问。使聪明人得着智谋。
let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance--
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| | 6 | 使人明白箴言和譬喻，懂得智慧人的言词和谜语。
for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.
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| | 7 | 敬畏耶和华是知识的开端。愚妄人藐视智慧和训诲。
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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| | 8 | 我儿，要听你父亲的训诲，不可离弃你母亲的法则。（或作指教）
Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
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| | 9 | 因为这要作你头上的华冠，你项上的金链。
They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
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| | 10 | 我儿，恶人若引诱你，你不可随从。
My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them.
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| | 11 | 他们若说，你与我们同去，我们要埋伏流人之血，要蹲伏害无罪之人。
If they say, "Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul;
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| | 12 | 我们好像阴间，把他们活活吞下。他们如同下坑的人，被我们囫囵吞了。
let's swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;
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| | 13 | 我们必得各样宝物，将所掳来的装满房屋。
we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;
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| | 14 | 你与我们大家同分。我们共用一个囊袋。
throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse"--
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| | 15 | 我儿，不要与他们同行一道。禁止你脚走他们的路。
my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;
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| | 16 | 因为他们的脚奔跑行恶，他们急速流人的血。
for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood.
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| | 17 | 好像飞鸟，网罗设在眼前仍不躲避。
How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds!
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| | 18 | 这些人埋伏，是为自流己血。蹲伏是为自害己命。
These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves!
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| | 19 | 凡贪恋财利的，所行之路，都是如此。这贪恋之心，乃夺去得财者之命。
Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it.
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| | 20 | 智慧在街市上呼喊，在宽阔处发声。
Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares;
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| | 21 | 在热闹街头喊叫，在城门口，在城中发出言语。
at the head of the noisy streets she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech:
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| | 22 | 说你们愚昧人喜爱愚昧，亵慢人喜欢亵慢，愚顽人恨恶知识，要到几时呢？
"How long will you simple ones love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
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| | 23 | 你们当因我的责备回转。我要将我的灵浇灌你们，将我的话指示你们。
If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you.
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| | 24 | 我呼唤你们不肯听从。我伸手，无人理会。
But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand,
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| | 25 | 反轻弃我一切的劝戒，不肯受我的责备。
since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke,
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| | 26 | 你们遭灾难，我就发笑惊恐临到你们，我必嗤笑。
I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you--
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| | 27 | 惊恐临到你们，好像狂风，灾难来到，如同暴风。急难痛苦临到你们身上。
when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you.
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| | 28 | 那时，你们必呼求我，我却不答应，恳切的寻找我，却寻不见。
"Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me.
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| | 29 | 因为你们恨恶知识，不喜爱敬畏耶和华，
Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD,
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| | 30 | 不听我的劝戒，藐视我一切的责备，
since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke,
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| | 31 | 所以必吃自结的果子，充满自设的计谋。
they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.
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| | 32 | 愚昧人背道，必杀己身，愚顽人安逸，必害己命。
For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them;
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| | 33 | 惟有听从我的，必安然居住，得享安静，不怕灾祸。
but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm."
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