Proverbs 23
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1When thou shalt sit to eat with a prince, consider diligently what is set before thy face.
1你若與官長坐席， 要留意在你面前的是誰。
2And put a knife to thy throat, if it be so that thou have thy soul in thy own power.
2你若是貪食的， 就當拿刀放在喉嚨上。
3Be not desirous of his meats, in which is the bread of deceit.
3不可貪戀他的美食， 因為是哄人的食物。
4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy prudence.
4不要勞碌求富， 休仗自己的聰明。
5Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.
5你豈要定睛在虛無的 錢財 上嗎？ 因 錢財 必長翅膀，如鷹向天飛去。
6Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
6不要吃惡眼人的飯， 也不要貪他的美味；
7Because like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.
7因為他心怎樣思量， 他為人就是怎樣。 他雖對你說，請吃，請喝， 他的心卻與你相背。
8The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.
8你所吃的那點食物必吐出來； 你所說的甘美言語也必落空。
9Speak not in the ears of fools: because they will despise the instruction of thy speech.
9你不要說話給愚昧人聽， 因他必藐視你智慧的言語。
10Touch not the bounds of little ones: and enter not into the field of the fatherless:
10不可挪移古時的地界， 也不可侵入孤兒的田地；
11For their near kinsman is strong: and he will judge their cause against thee.
11因他們的救贖主大有能力， 他必向你為他們辨屈。
12Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.
12你要留心領受訓誨， 側耳聽從知識的言語。
13Withhold not correction from a child: for if thou strike him with the rod, he shall not die.
13不可不管教孩童； 你用杖打他，他必不至於死。
14Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and deliver his soul from hell.
14你要用杖打他， 就可以救他的靈魂免下陰間。
15My son, if thy mind be wise, my heart shall rejoice with thee:
15我兒，你心若存智慧， 我的心也甚歡喜。
16And my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips shall speak what is right.
16你的嘴若說正直話， 我的心腸也必快樂。
17Let not thy heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long:
17你心中不要嫉妒罪人， 只要終日敬畏耶和華；
18Because thou shalt have hope in the latter end, and thy expectation shall not be taken away.
18因為至終必有善報， 你的指望也不致斷絕。
19Hear thou, my son, and be wise: and guide thy mind in the way.
19我兒，你當聽，當存智慧， 好在正道上引導你的心。
20Be not in the feasts of great drinkers, nor in their revellings, who contribute flesh to eat:
20好飲酒的，好吃肉的， 不要與他們來往；
21Because they that give themselves to drinking, and that club together shall be consumed; and drowsiness shall be clothed with rags.
21因為好酒貪食的，必致貧窮； 好睡覺的，必穿破爛衣服。
22Hearken to thy father, that beget thee: and despise not thy mother when she is old.
22你要聽從生你的父親； 你母親老了，也不可藐視她。
23Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
23你當買真理； 就是智慧、訓誨，和聰明也都不可賣。
24The father of the just rejoiceth greatly: he that hath begotten a wise son, shall have joy in him.
24義人的父親必大得快樂； 人生智慧的兒子，必因他歡喜。
25Let thy father, and thy mother be joyful, and let her rejoice that bore thee.
25你要使父母歡喜， 使生你的快樂。
26My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.
26我兒，要將你的心歸我； 你的眼目也要喜悅我的道路。
27For a harlot is a deep ditch: and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
27妓女是深坑； 外女是窄阱。
28She lieth in wait in the way as a robber, and him whom she shall see unwary, she will kill.
28她埋伏好像強盜； 她使人中多有奸詐的。
29Who hath woe? whose father hath woe? who hath contentions? who falls into pits? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
29誰有禍患？誰有憂愁？ 誰有爭鬥？誰有哀歎？ 誰無故受傷？誰眼目紅赤？
30Surely they that pass their time in wine, and study to drink of their cups.
30就是那流連飲酒、 常去尋找調和酒的人。
31Look not upon the wine when it is yellow, when the colour thereof shineth in the glass: it goeth in pleasantly,
31酒發紅，在杯中閃爍， 你不可觀看， 雖然 下咽舒暢， 終久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。
32But in the end, it will bite like a snake, and will spread abroad poison like a basilisk.
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33Thy eyes shall behold strange women, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
33你眼必看見異怪的事； 你心必發出乖謬的話。
34And thou shalt be as one sleeping in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot fast asleep, when the stern is lost.
34你必像躺在海中， 或像臥在桅杆上。
35And thou shalt say: They have beaten me, but I was not sensible of pain: they drew me, and I felt not: when shall I awake, and find wine again?
35你必 說：人打我，我卻未受傷； 人鞭打我，我竟不覺得。 我幾時清醒，我仍去尋酒。
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