Proverbs 23
Christian Standard Bible
23 When you sit down to dine with a ruler,
consider carefully what[a] is before you,
2 and put a knife to your throat
if you have a big[b] appetite;
3 don’t desire his choice food,(A)
for that food is deceptive.
4 Don’t wear yourself out to get rich;(B)
because you know better, stop!
5 As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,(C)
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.
6 Don’t eat a stingy person’s bread,[c](D)
and don’t desire his choice food,(E)
7 for it’s like someone calculating inwardly.[d](F)
“Eat and drink,” he says to you,
but his heart is not with you.(G)
8 You will vomit the little you’ve eaten
and waste your pleasant words.
10 Don’t move an ancient boundary marker,(I)
and don’t encroach on the fields of the fatherless,
11 for their Redeemer is strong,(J)
and he will champion their cause against you.(K)
12 Apply yourself to discipline
and listen to words of knowledge.
13 Don’t withhold discipline from a youth;
if you punish him with a rod, he will not die.(L)
14 Punish him with a rod,
and you will rescue his life from Sheol.(M)
15 My son, if your heart is wise,
my heart will indeed rejoice.(N)
16 My innermost being will celebrate
when your lips say what is right.(O)
17 Don’t let your heart envy sinners;(P)
instead, always fear the Lord.(Q)
18 For then you will have a future,
and your hope will not be dashed.(R)
19 Listen, my son, and be wise;
keep your mind on the right course.
20 Don’t associate with those who drink too much wine(S)
or with those who gorge themselves on meat.(T)
21 For the drunkard and the glutton will become poor,
and grogginess will clothe them in rags.(U)
22 Listen to your father who gave you life,
and don’t despise your mother when[f] she is old.(V)
23 Buy—and do not sell—truth,
wisdom, instruction, and understanding.(W)
24 The father of a righteous son will rejoice greatly,
and one who fathers a wise son will delight in him.(X)
25 Let your father and mother have joy,(Y)
and let her who gave birth to you rejoice.
26 My son, give me your heart,
and let your eyes observe my ways.
27 For a prostitute is a deep pit,(Z)
and a wayward woman is a narrow well;
28 indeed, she sets an ambush like a robber(AA)
and increases the number of unfaithful people.
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow?
Who has conflicts? Who has complaints?
Who has wounds for no reason?(AB)
Who has red eyes?
30 Those who linger over wine;
those who go looking for mixed wine.(AC)
31 Don’t gaze at wine because it is red,(AD)
because it gleams in the cup
and goes down smoothly.(AE)
32 In the end it bites like a snake
and stings like a viper.
33 Your eyes will see strange things,
and you will say absurd things.[g](AF)
34 You’ll be like someone sleeping out at sea
or lying down on the top of a ship’s mast.
35 “They struck me, but[h] I feel no pain!
They beat me, but I didn’t know it!(AG)
When will I wake up?
I’ll look for another drink.”(AH)
Footnotes
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
King James Version
23 When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
2 And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
7 For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
12 Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
15 My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
18 For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
22 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and 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 thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
28 She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
29 Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
32 At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
34 Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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