箴言 4
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
宜听训诲
4 众子啊，要听父亲的教训，留心得知聪明。 2 因我所给你们的是好教训，不可离弃我的法则[a]。 3 我在父亲面前为孝子，在母亲眼中为独一的娇儿。 4 父亲教训我说：“你心要存记我的言语，遵守我的命令，便得存活。 5 要得智慧，要得聪明，不可忘记，也不可偏离我口中的言语。 6 不可离弃智慧，智慧就护卫你；要爱她，她就保守你。 7 智慧为首，所以要得智慧，在你一切所得之内必得聪明[b]。 8 高举智慧，她就使你高升；怀抱智慧，她就使你尊荣。 9 她必将华冠加在你头上，把荣冕交给你。”
10 我儿，你要听受我的言语，就必延年益寿。 11 我已指教你走智慧的道，引导你行正直的路。 12 你行走，脚步必不致狭窄；你奔跑，也不致跌倒。 13 要持定训诲，不可放松；必当谨守，因为它是你的生命。 14 不可行恶人的路，不要走坏人的道。 15 要躲避，不可经过，要转身而去。 16 这等人若不行恶，不得睡觉；不使人跌倒，睡卧不安。 17 因为他们以奸恶吃饼，以强暴喝酒。 18 但义人的路好像黎明的光，越照越明，直到日午。 19 恶人的道好像幽暗，自己不知因什么跌倒。
20 我儿，要留心听我的言辞，侧耳听我的话语， 21 都不可离你的眼目，要存记在你心中。 22 因为得着它的就得了生命，又得了医全体的良药。 23 你要保守你心，胜过保守一切[c]，因为一生的果效是由心发出。 24 你要除掉邪僻的口，弃绝乖谬的嘴。 25 你的眼目要向前正看，你的眼睛[d]当向前直观。 26 要修平你脚下的路，坚定你一切的道， 27 不可偏向左右，要使你的脚离开邪恶。
Proverbs 4
English Standard Version
A Father's Wise Instruction
4 (A)Hear, O sons, a father's instruction,
and be attentive, that you may (B)gain[a] insight,
2 for I give you good (C)precepts;
do not forsake my teaching.
3 When I was a son with my father,
(D)tender, (E)the only one in the sight of my mother,
4 he (F)taught me and said to me,
(G)“Let your heart hold fast my words;
(H)keep my commandments, and live.
5 (I)Get wisdom; get (J)insight;
do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
6 Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
(K)love her, and she will guard you.
7 (L)The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
and whatever you get, get (M)insight.
8 Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
she will (N)honor you (O)if you embrace her.
9 She will place on your head (P)a graceful garland;
she will bestow on you a beautiful crown.”
10 (Q)Hear, (R)my son, and accept my words,
that (S)the years of your life may be many.
11 I have (T)taught you the way of wisdom;
I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
12 When you walk, (U)your step will not be hampered,
and (V)if you run, you will not stumble.
13 (W)Keep hold of instruction; do not let go;
guard her, for she is your (X)life.
14 (Y)Do not enter the path of the wicked,
and do not walk in the way of the evil.
15 Avoid it; do not go on it;
turn away from it and pass on.
16 For they (Z)cannot sleep unless they have done wrong;
they are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble.
17 For they eat the bread of wickedness
(AA)and drink the wine of violence.
18 But (AB)the path of the righteous is like (AC)the light of dawn,
which shines (AD)brighter and brighter until (AE)full day.
19 (AF)The way of the wicked is like deep (AG)darkness;
they do not know over what they (AH)stumble.
20 (AI)My son, be attentive to my words;
incline your ear to my sayings.
21 (AJ)Let them not escape from your sight;
(AK)keep them within your heart.
22 For they are (AL)life to those who find them,
and healing to all their[b] flesh.
23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
for (AM)from it flow (AN)the springs of life.
24 Put away from you (AO)crooked speech,
and put (AP)devious talk far from you.
25 (AQ)Let your eyes look directly forward,
and your gaze be straight before you.
26 (AR)Ponder[c] the path of your feet;
(AS)then all your ways will be sure.
27 (AT)Do not swerve to the right or to the left;
turn your foot away from evil.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 4:1 Hebrew know
- Proverbs 4:22 Hebrew his
- Proverbs 4:26 Or Make level
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