箴言 1

¹以色列王大衛兒子所羅門的箴言：These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,

²要使人曉得智慧和訓誨，分辨通達的言語，for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

³使人處事領受智慧、仁義、公平、正直的訓誨，and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

⁴使愚人靈明，使少年人有知識和謀略，To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

⁵使智慧人聽見，增長學問，使聰明人得著智謀，let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel

⁶使人明白箴言和譬喻，懂得智慧人的言詞和謎語。by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

⁷敬畏耶和華是知識的開端；愚妄人藐視智慧和訓誨。The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

⁸我兒，要聽你父親的訓誨，不可離棄你母親的法則（或譯：指教）；Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

⁹因為這要作你頭上的華冠，你項上的金鍊。For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

¹⁰我兒，惡人若引誘你，你不可隨從。My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

¹¹他們若說：你與我們同去，我們要埋伏流人之血，要蹲伏害無罪之人；If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

¹²我們好像陰間，把他們活活吞下；他們如同下坑的人，被我們囫圇吞了；let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

¹³我們必得各樣寶物，將所擄來的，裝滿房屋；We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

¹⁴你與我們大家同分，我們共用一個囊袋；Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

¹⁵我兒，不要與他們同行一道，禁止你腳走他們的路。my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

¹⁶因為，他們的腳奔跑行惡；他們急速流人的血，For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

¹⁷好像飛鳥，網羅設在眼前仍不躲避。How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

¹⁸這些人埋伏，是為自流己血；蹲伏，是為自害己命。But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.

¹⁹凡貪戀財利的，所行之路都是如此；這貪戀之心乃奪去得財者之命。Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.

²⁰智慧在街市上呼喊，在寬闊處發聲，Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

²¹在熱鬧街頭喊叫，在城門口，在城中發出言語，in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

²²說：你們愚昧人喜愛愚昧，褻慢人喜歡褻慢，愚頑人恨惡知識，要到幾時呢？“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

²³你們當因我的責備回轉；我要將我的靈澆灌你們，將我的話指示你們。If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.

²⁴我呼喚，你們不肯聽從；我伸手，無人理會；Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

²⁵反輕棄我一切的勸戒，不肯受我的責備。because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

²⁶你們遭災難，我就發笑；驚恐臨到你們，我必嗤笑。in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

²⁷驚恐臨到你們，好像狂風；災難來到，如同暴風；急難痛苦臨到你們身上。when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

²⁸那時，你們必呼求我，我卻不答應，懇切地尋找我，卻尋不見。Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

²⁹因為，你們恨惡知識，不喜愛敬畏耶和華，For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

³⁰不聽我的勸戒，藐視我一切的責備，They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

³¹所以必吃自結的果子，充滿自設的計謀。So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

³²愚昧人背道，必殺己身；愚頑人安逸，必害己命。For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

³³惟有聽從我的，必安然居住，得享安靜，不怕災禍。But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”