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智慧的赏赐

我儿啊,你若领受我的言语,
珍藏我的命令,
留心听智慧,
专心求聪明;
你若呼求明理,
扬声求聪明,
寻找她,如寻找银子,
搜寻她,如搜寻宝藏,
你就懂得敬畏耶和华,
得以认识 神。
因为耶和华赏赐智慧,
知识和聪明都由他口而出。
他为正直人珍藏健全的知识,
给行为纯正的人作盾牌,
为要保护公正的路,
庇护虔诚人的道。
那时,你就明白公义、公平、
正直,和一切完善的道路。
10 因为智慧要进入你的心,
知识要使你内心欢愉。
11 智谋要庇护你,
聪明必保护你,
12 救你脱离恶人的道,
脱离言谈乖谬的人。
13 他们离弃正直的路,
行走黑暗的道,
14 喜欢作恶,
喜爱恶人的错谬。
15 他们的路歪曲,
他们偏离中道。
16 智慧要救你远离陌生女子,
远离那油嘴滑舌的外邦女子。
17 她离弃年轻时的配偶,
忘了自己神圣的盟约。
18 她的家陷入死亡,
她的路偏向阴魂。
19 凡到她那里去的,不得回转,
也得不到生命的路。
20 智慧使你行善人的道,
守义人的路。
21 正直人必在地上居住,
完全人必在其上存留;
22 惟恶人要从地上剪除,
奸诈人要被拔出。

The Value of Wisdom

My son, if you receive my words,
And (A)treasure my commands within you,
So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
And apply your heart to understanding;
Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
And lift up your voice for understanding,
(B)If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
(C)Then you will understand the fear of the Lord,
And find the knowledge of God.
(D)For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
(E)He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
He guards the paths of justice,
And (F)preserves the way of His saints.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.

10 When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
11 Discretion will preserve you;
(G)Understanding will keep you,
12 To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
13 From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To (H)walk in the ways of darkness;
14 (I)Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
15 (J)Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;
16 To deliver you from (K)the immoral woman,
(L)From the seductress who flatters with her words,
17 Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
18 For (M)her house [a]leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
19 None who go to her return,
Nor do they [b]regain the paths of life—
20 So you may walk in the way of goodness,
And keep to the paths of righteousness.
21 For the upright will dwell in the (N)land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
22 But the wicked will be [c]cut off from the [d]earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.

Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 2:18 sinks
  2. Proverbs 2:19 Lit. reach
  3. Proverbs 2:22 destroyed
  4. Proverbs 2:22 land