箴言 23
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
不可贪吃，当求智慧
23 你与官长一起坐席吃饭的时候，
要特别留意在你面前的是谁。
2 你若是个贪吃的人，
就当把刀子放在喉咙上。
3 不可贪恋他的美食，
因为那是骗人的食物。
4 不要劳碌求富，
你要明智地放下这企图。
5 你的眼睛注视在钱财上，钱财却不见了，
因为钱财必长起翅膀，
如鹰飞往天上。
6 不可吃吝啬人的饭，
也不可贪恋他的美食。
7 因为他心里怎样计算，他的为人就是怎样；
他虽然对你说：“请吃，请喝！”
他的心里却没有你。
8 你所吃的那一点食物，必要吐出来，
你道谢的美言，也都白费了。
9 不要说话给愚昧人听，
因为他必藐视你明慧的言语。
10 你不可迁移古时的地界；
也不可侵占孤儿的田地。
11 因为他们的救赎主大有能力，
他必向你为他们的案件伸冤。
12 你要专心领受教训，
留心听知识的言语。
13 要管教孩童，不可姑息，
你虽然用杖打他，他也不会死；
14 你要用杖打他，
就可以救他的灵魂免下阴间。
15 我儿，如果你的心有智慧，
我的心也就欢喜；
16 你的嘴唇说正直话的时候，
我的内心就欢乐。
17 你的心不要嫉妒罪人，
只要时常敬畏耶和华。
18 因为万事必有结局，
你的盼望也不会断绝。
19 我儿，你要听，要有智慧，
要引导你的心走在正路上。
20 酗酒的人，不可与他们来往；
暴食的人，不要与他们为友。
21 因为酗酒暴食的人必致穷乏；
贪睡的人必穿破衣。
22 你要听从生你的父亲；
也不可因为母亲老了，就藐视她。
23 你要买真理，不可出卖；
要得智慧、教训和哲理。
24 义人的父亲必大有快乐；
生下智慧的儿子的，必因儿子欢喜。
25 要使你的父母欢喜，
使生下你的快乐。
26 我儿，把你的心给我；
你的眼目要关注我的道路。
27 因为妓女是深坑，
淫妇是狭窄的井。
28 她像强盗一样埋伏，
使人间增添很多奸诈的人。
29 谁有祸患？谁有愁苦？
谁有纷争？谁有怨言？
谁无故受伤？
谁的眼睛赤红？
30 就是那些沉湎于酒，
常去品尝调和了的酒的人。
31 你不要看酒怎样发红，
在杯中怎样闪烁诱人，
喝下去怎样舒畅，
32 最后它却像咬你的蛇、
像刺你的毒蛇。
33 你的眼睛必看见怪异的事，
你的心必说乖谬的话。
34 你必好象躺在海中，
又好象躺在桅杆顶上。
35 你必说：“人打我，我不痛；
人鞭打我，我不晓得；
我甚么时候清醒？
我还要再去寻酒。”
Proverbs 23
Lexham English Bible
23 When you sit to eat with a ruler,
you shall surely observe what is before you,
2 and you shall put a knife to your throat
if you have a big appetite.[a]
3 Do not desire his delicacies,
for[b] it is food of deception.
4 Do not tire in order to become rich;
out of your understanding, may you desist.
5 Your eyes will alight[c] on it, but there is nothing to it,
for suddenly it will make for itself wings
like an eagle and it will be exhausted in the heavens.
6 Do not eat the bread of the stingy,[d]
and do not desire his delicacies.
7 For, like hair in his throat,[e] so it is.[f]
“Eat and drink!” he will say to you,
but his heart will not be with you.
8 Your morsel you have eaten, you will vomit it up,
and you will waste your pleasant words.
9 In the ears of a fool do not speak,
for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
10 Do not remove an ancient boundary marker,
and on the fields of orphans do not encroach;
11 For their redeemer is strong,
he himself will plead their cause against you.
12 Apply your heart[g] to instruction,
and your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13 Do not withhold discipline from a child,
if you will beat him with the rod, he will not die.
14 As for you, with the rod you shall beat him,
and his life[h] you will save from Sheol.[i]
15 My child, if your heart[j] is wise,
my heart will be glad—even me!
16 And my insides[k] will rejoice
when your lips speak what is upright.
17 May your heart[l] not envy the sinners,
but live in fear of Yahweh all day.[m]
18 Surely[n] there is a future,
and your hope will not be cut off.
19 You, my child, hear and be wise,
and direct your heart[o] on the road.
20 Do not be among drinkers of wine,
among gluttonous eaters of their meat.[p]
21 For the drunkard and gluttonous, they will become poor,
and with rags, drowsiness will clothe them.
22 Listen to your father—he who gave you life,[q]
and do not despise your mother when[r] she is old.
23 Buy truth and do not sell it,
wisdom and instruction and understanding.
24 The father of the righteous will surely rejoice;
he who bears a wise person will be happy with him.
25 May your father and your mother be glad,
and may she who bore you rejoice.
26 My child, may you give your heart[s] to me,
and may your eyes delight in my ways.
27 For a deep pit is a prostitute,[t]
and a narrow well is an adulteress.[u]
28 She is also like a robber lying in wait,
and the faithless among mankind she increases.
29 To whom is woe? To whom is sorrow? To whom are quarrels? To whom is complaint?
To whom are wounds without cause? To whom is redness of the eyes?
30 To those who linger over wine,
to those who come to try mixed wine.
31 Do not look at wine when it is red,
when it sparkles[v] on the cup,
going down smoothly.
32 In the end,[w] it will bite like a serpent,
and it will sting like an adder.
33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and your heart[x] will speak perverse things.
34 And you will be like him who lies down in the heart of the sea,
and like him who lies down on top of a mast.
35 “They struck me; I was not hurt. They beat me; I did not know it.
When I will awake, I will continue; I will seek it again.”
Footnotes
- Proverbs 23:2 Literally “lord/master of life”
- Proverbs 23:3 Hebrew “and”
- Proverbs 23:5 Literally “cause to fly”
- Proverbs 23:6 Literally “stingy of eye”
- Proverbs 23:7 Literally “soul,” or “inner self”
- Proverbs 23:7 Or “is he”
- Proverbs 23:12 Or “mind”
- Proverbs 23:14 Or “soul,” or “inner self”
- Proverbs 23:14 A term for the place where the dead reside, i.e., the Underworld
- Proverbs 23:15 Or “mind”
- Proverbs 23:16 Literally “kidneys”
- Proverbs 23:17 Or “mind”
- Proverbs 23:17 Literally “all the day”
- Proverbs 23:18 Literally “For if”
- Proverbs 23:19 Or “mind”
- Proverbs 23:20 Literally “meat for them”
- Proverbs 23:22 Literally “caused you to be born”
- Proverbs 23:22 Or “for, because”
- Proverbs 23:26 Or “mind”
- Proverbs 23:27 Or “whore”
- Proverbs 23:27 Literally “a foreign woman”
- Proverbs 23:31 Literally “gives its eye”
- Proverbs 23:32 Literally “end him”
- Proverbs 23:33 Or “mind”
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