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箴言 4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
箴言 4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
父親的教誨
4 孩子們啊，
你們要聽從父親的教誨，
留心學習，以便領悟，
2 因為我給你們的訓誨是美好的，
不可背棄我的教導。
3 我年幼時在父親身邊，
是母親唯一的寵兒。
4 父親教導我說：
「要牢記我的話，
遵守我的誡命，就必存活。
5 你要尋求智慧和悟性，
不要忘記或違背我的吩咐。
6 不可離棄智慧，智慧必護佑你；
你要熱愛智慧，智慧必看顧你。
7 智慧至上，要尋求智慧，
要不惜一切，求得悟性。
8 高舉智慧，她必使你受尊崇；
擁抱智慧，她必使你得尊榮。
9 她必為你戴上華冠，
加上榮冕。」
10 孩子啊，你要聽從我的教導，
就必延年益壽。
11 我已經指示你走智慧之道，
引導你行正確的路。
12 你行走，必不受妨礙；
你奔跑，絕不會跌倒。
13 你要持守教誨，不要鬆懈；
要守護好，因為那是你的生命。
14 不要涉足惡人的道，
不要行走壞人的路；
15 要避開，不可踏足，
要繞道而行。
16 因為他們不作惡就無法入睡，
不絆倒人就無法安眠；
17 他們吃的是邪惡餅，
喝的是殘暴酒。
18 義人的道路好像黎明的曙光，
越照越亮，直到大放光明。
19 惡人的道路一片幽暗，
他們不知被何物絆倒。
20 孩子啊，你要聆聽我的吩咐，
側耳聽我的訓言；
21 不要讓它們離開你的視線，
要牢記在心。
22 因為得到它們就得到生命，
全身也必康健。
23 要一絲不苟地守護你的心，
因為生命之泉從心中湧出。
24 不講欺詐之言，
不說荒謬的話。
25 眼睛要正視前方，
雙目要向前直看。
26 要鋪平腳下的路，
使所行之道穩妥。
27 不可偏右偏左，
要遠離惡事。
Proverbs 4
Contemporary English Version
Proverbs 4
Contemporary English Version
Advice to Young People
4 My child, listen closely
to my teachings
and learn common sense.
2 My advice is useful,
so don't turn away.
3 When I was still very young
and my mother's favorite child,
my father 4 said to me:
“If you follow my teachings
and keep them in mind,
you will live.
5 Be wise and learn good sense;
remember my teachings
and do what I say.
6 “If you love Wisdom
and don't reject her,
she will watch over you.
7 The best thing about Wisdom
is Wisdom herself;
good sense is more important
than anything else.
8 If you value Wisdom
and hold tightly to her,
great honors will be yours.
9 It will be like wearing
a glorious crown
of beautiful flowers.”
The Right Way and the Wrong Way
10 My child, if you listen
and obey my teachings,
you will live a long time.
11 I have shown you the way
that makes sense;
I have guided you
along the right path.
12 Your road won't be blocked,
and you won't stumble
when you run.
13 Hold firmly to my teaching
and never let go.
It will mean life for you.
14 Don't follow the bad example
of cruel and evil people.
15 Turn aside and keep going.
Stay away from them.
16 They can't sleep or rest
until they do wrong or harm
some innocent victim.
17 Their food and drink
are cruelty and wickedness.
18 The lifestyle of good people
is like sunlight at dawn
that keeps getting brighter
until broad daylight.
19 The lifestyle of the wicked
is like total darkness,
and they will never know
what makes them stumble.
20 My child, listen carefully
to everything I say.
21 Don't forget a single word,
but think about it all.
22 Knowing these teachings
will mean true life
and good health for you.
23 Carefully guard your thoughts
because they are the source
of true life.
24 Never tell lies or be deceitful
in what you say.
25 Keep looking straight ahead,
without turning aside.
26 (A) Know where you are headed,
and you will stay
on solid ground.
27 Don't make a mistake by turning
to the right or the left.
Mishle 4
Orthodox Jewish Bible
Mishle 4
Orthodox Jewish Bible
4 Hear, ye banim, the musar (instruction, discipline) of an av, and attend to know binah (understanding).
2 For I give you lekach tov (good doctrine, good instruction), forsake ye not my torah.
3 For I was ben to avi, tender and yachid (an only child) before immi.
4 He taught me also, and said unto me, Let thine lev retain my words; be shomer over my mitzvot, and live.
5 Acquire chochmah, acquire binah (understanding); forget it not; neither turn from the words of my peh (mouth).
6 Forsake her not, and she shall be shomer over thee; love her, and she shall protect thee.
7 Chochmah is the principal thing; therefore get chochmah, and with all thy getting get binah (understanding).
8 Exalt her, and she shall promote thee; she shall honor thee with kavod, when thou dost embrace her.
9 She shall give to thine head a garland of chen; an ateret (crown) of tiferet (glory) shall she present to thee.
10 Hear, O beni (my son), and receive my sayings; and thy shnot chayyim shall be many.
11 I have taught thee in the derech chochmah; I have led thee in ma’aglei yosher (right paths).
12 When thou goest, thy steps shall not be hindered; and when thou runnest, lo tikashel (thou shalt not stumble).
13 Take firm hold of musar; let her not go; guard her; for she is thy chayyim.
14 Enter not into the orach resha’im, and go not on the derech ra’im (road of the wicked).
15 Avoid it, travel al (not) on it, turn from it, and pass on.
16 For they sleep not, unless they have done evil; and their sheynah (sleep) is robbed, unless they cause some to fall.
17 For they eat the lechem of resha, and drink the yayin of chamasim (violences).
18 But the orach tzaddikim (path of the righteous) is as the bright light, that shineth brighter and brighter unto the full day.
19 The derech resha’im is as deep darkness; they know not at what they stumble.
20 Beni (my son), attend to my words; incline thine ozen unto my sayings.
21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; be shomer over them within thine lev.
22 For they are chayyim unto those that find them, and health to all their basar.
23 Set watch over and guard thy lev with all diligence; for out of it are the totze’ot chayyim (issues, wellsprings of life cf Mk 7:20-23).
24 Put away from thee a deceitful peh (mouth), and perverse sfatayim (lips) put far from thee.
25 Let thine eynayim look straight forward, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee.
26 Ponder the ma’agal (path) of thy raglayim, and let all thy drakhim be firm.
27 Turn not to the right hand nor to the left; remove thy regel from rah [T.N. Everyone in life has two paths to choose from just as Moshiach Tzidkeinu spoke of two gates, a wide one crowded with traffic and leading to destruction, and another one found by few but leading to life and redemption‖Mt 7:13-14].
Proverbs 4
New International Version
Proverbs 4
New International Version
Get Wisdom at Any Cost
4 Listen, my sons,(A) to a father’s instruction;(B)
pay attention and gain understanding.(C)
2 I give you sound learning,
so do not forsake my teaching.
3 For I too was a son to my father,
still tender, and cherished by my mother.
4 Then he taught me, and he said to me,
“Take hold(D) of my words with all your heart;
keep my commands, and you will live.(E)
5 Get wisdom,(F) get understanding;
do not forget my words or turn away from them.
6 Do not forsake wisdom, and she will protect you;(G)
love her, and she will watch over you.(H)
7 The beginning of wisdom is this: Get[a] wisdom.
Though it cost all(I) you have,[b] get understanding.(J)
8 Cherish her, and she will exalt you;
embrace her, and she will honor you.(K)
9 She will give you a garland to grace your head
and present you with a glorious crown.(L)”
10 Listen, my son,(M) accept what I say,
and the years of your life will be many.(N)
11 I instruct(O) you in the way of wisdom
and lead you along straight paths.(P)
12 When you walk, your steps will not be hampered;
when you run, you will not stumble.(Q)
13 Hold on to instruction, do not let it go;
guard it well, for it is your life.(R)
14 Do not set foot on the path of the wicked
or walk in the way of evildoers.(S)
15 Avoid it, do not travel on it;
turn from it and go on your way.
16 For they cannot rest until they do evil;(T)
they are robbed of sleep till they make someone stumble.
17 They eat the bread of wickedness
and drink the wine of violence.(U)
18 The path of the righteous(V) is like the morning sun,(W)
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.(X)
19 But the way of the wicked is like deep darkness;(Y)
they do not know what makes them stumble.(Z)
20 My son,(AA) pay attention to what I say;
turn your ear to my words.(AB)
21 Do not let them out of your sight,(AC)
keep them within your heart;
22 for they are life to those who find them
and health to one’s whole body.(AD)
23 Above all else, guard(AE) your heart,
for everything you do flows from it.(AF)
24 Keep your mouth free of perversity;
keep corrupt talk far from your lips.
25 Let your eyes(AG) look straight ahead;
fix your gaze directly before you.
26 Give careful thought to the[c] paths for your feet(AH)
and be steadfast in all your ways.
27 Do not turn to the right or the left;(AI)
keep your foot from evil.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:7 Or Wisdom is supreme; therefore get
- Proverbs 4:7 Or wisdom. / Whatever else you get
- Proverbs 4:26 Or Make level
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