箴言 23
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
不可貪吃，當求智慧
23 你與官長一起坐席吃飯的時候，
要特別留意在你面前的是誰。
2 你若是個貪吃的人，
就當把刀子放在喉嚨上。
3 不可貪戀他的美食，
因為那是騙人的食物。
4 不要勞碌求富，
你要明智地放下這企圖。
5 你的眼睛注視在錢財上，錢財卻不見了，
因為錢財必長起翅膀，
如鷹飛往天上。
6 不可吃吝嗇人的飯，
也不可貪戀他的美食。
7 因為他心裡怎樣計算，他的為人就是怎樣；
他雖然對你說：“請吃，請喝！”
他的心裡卻沒有你。
8 你所吃的那一點食物，必要吐出來，
你道謝的美言，也都白費了。
9 不要說話給愚昧人聽，
因為他必藐視你明慧的言語。
10 你不可遷移古時的地界；
也不可侵佔孤兒的田地。
11 因為他們的救贖主大有能力，
他必向你為他們的案件伸冤。
12 你要專心領受教訓，
留心聽知識的言語。
13 要管教孩童，不可姑息，
你雖然用杖打他，他也不會死；
14 你要用杖打他，
就可以救他的靈魂免下陰間。
15 我兒，如果你的心有智慧，
我的心也就歡喜；
16 你的嘴唇說正直話的時候，
我的內心就歡樂。
17 你的心不要嫉妒罪人，
只要時常敬畏耶和華。
18 因為萬事必有結局，
你的盼望也不會斷絕。
19 我兒，你要聽，要有智慧，
要引導你的心走在正路上。
20 酗酒的人，不可與他們來往；
暴食的人，不要與他們為友。
21 因為酗酒暴食的人必致窮乏；
貪睡的人必穿破衣。
22 你要聽從生你的父親；
也不可因為母親老了，就藐視她。
23 你要買真理，不可出賣；
要得智慧、教訓和哲理。
24 義人的父親必大有快樂；
生下智慧的兒子的，必因兒子歡喜。
25 要使你的父母歡喜，
使生下你的快樂。
26 我兒，把你的心給我；
你的眼目要關注我的道路。
27 因為妓女是深坑，
淫婦是狹窄的井。
28 她像強盜一樣埋伏，
使人間增添很多奸詐的人。
29 誰有禍患？誰有愁苦？
誰有紛爭？誰有怨言？
誰無故受傷？
誰的眼睛赤紅？
30 就是那些沉湎於酒，
常去品嘗調和了的酒的人。
31 你不要看酒怎樣發紅，
在杯中怎樣閃爍誘人，
喝下去怎樣舒暢，
32 最後它卻像咬你的蛇、
像刺你的毒蛇。
33 你的眼睛必看見怪異的事，
你的心必說乖謬的話。
34 你必好像躺在海中，
又好像躺在桅杆頂上。
35 你必說：“人打我，我不痛；
人鞭打我，我不曉得；
我甚麼時候清醒？
我還要再去尋酒。”
Proverbs 23
1599 Geneva Bible
23 1 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, [a]consider diligently what is before thee,
2 [b]And put thy knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to the appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainty meats: [c]for it is a deceivable meat.
4 Travail not too much to be rich: but cease from thy [d]wisdom.
5 Wilt thou cast thine eyes upon it, which is nothing? for riches taketh her to her wings, as an Eagle, and flieth into the heaven.
6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an [e]evil eye, neither desire his dainty meats.
7 For as though he thought it in his heart: so will he say unto thee, Eat and drink: but his heart is not with thee.
8 Thou shalt vomit thy [f]morsel that thou hast eaten, and thou shalt lose thy sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 (A)Remove not the ancient bounds, and enter not into the fields of the fatherless.
11 For he that redeemeth them, is mighty: he will (B)defend their cause against thee.
12 Apply thine heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 (C)Withhold not correction from the child: if thou smite him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt smite him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from [g]hell.
15 My son, if thine heart be wise, mine heart shall rejoice, and I also,
16 And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak righteous things.
17 (D)Let not thine heart be envious against sinners: but let it be in the fear of the Lord continually.
18 For surely there is an end, [h]and thy hope shall not be cut off.
19 O thou my son, hear, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the [i]way.
20 Keep not company with [j]drunkards, nor with [k]gluttons.
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall be poor, and the sleeper shall be clothed with rags.
22 Obey thy father that hath begotten thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy [l]the truth, but sell it not: likewise wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child, shall have joy of him.
25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
26 My son, give me [m]thine heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.
27 (E)For a whore is as a deep ditch, and a strange woman is as a narrow pit.
28 (F)Also she lieth in wait as for a prey, [n]and she increaseth the transgressors among men.
29 To whom is woe? to whom is sorrow? to whom is strife? to whom is murmuring? to whom are wounds without cause? and to whom is the redness of the eyes?
30 Even to them that tarry long at the wine, to them that go, [o]and seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine, when it is red, and when it showeth his color in the cup, or goeth down pleasantly.
32 In the end thereof it will bite like a serpent, and hurt like a cockatrice.
33 Thine [p]eyes shall look upon strange women, and thine heart shall speak lewd things.
34 And thou shalt be as one that sleepeth in the midst of the [q]sea, and as he that sleepeth in the top of the mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, but I was not sick: they have beaten me, but I knew not, when I awoke: therefore will I [r]seek it yet still.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:1 Eat with sobriety.
- Proverbs 23:2 Bridle thine appetite, as it were by force and violence.
- Proverbs 23:3 For ofttimes the rich when they bid their inferiors to their tables, it is not for the love they bear them, but for their own secret purposes.
- Proverbs 23:4 Bestow not the gifts that God hath given thee, to get worldly riches.
- Proverbs 23:6 That is, covetous, as contrary a good eye is taken for liberal, as Prov. 22:9.
- Proverbs 23:8 He will not cease till he hath done thee some harm, and his flattering words shall come to no use.
- Proverbs 23:14 That is, from destruction.
- Proverbs 23:18 The prosperity of the wicked shall not continue.
- Proverbs 23:19 In the observation of God’s commandments.
- Proverbs 23:20 Hebrew, wine-bibbers.
- Proverbs 23:20 Hebrew, devourers of flesh.
- Proverbs 23:23 Spare no cost for truth’s sake, neither depart from it for any gain.
- Proverbs 23:26 Give thyself wholly to wisdom.
- Proverbs 23:28 She seduceth many and causeth them to offend God.
- Proverbs 23:30 Which by art make wine stronger and more pleasant.
- Proverbs 23:33 That is, drunkenness shall bring thee to whoredom.
- Proverbs 23:34 In such great danger shalt thou be.
- Proverbs 23:35 Though drunkenness make them more insensible than beasts, yet can they not refrain.
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