箴言 1

¹以色列王大卫儿子所罗门的箴言：These are the proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel,

²要使人晓得智慧和训诲，分辨通达的言语，for gaining wisdom and discipline, for comprehending words of insight,

³使人处事领受智慧、仁义、公平、正直的训诲，and for receiving instruction in wise living and in righteousness, justice, and equity.

⁴使愚人灵明，使少年人有知识和谋略，To impart prudence to the simple and knowledge and discretion to the young,

⁵使智慧人听见，增长学问，使聪明人得着智谋，let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel

⁶使人明白箴言和譬喻，懂得智慧人的言词和谜语。by understanding the proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

⁷敬畏耶和华是知识的开端；愚妄人藐视智慧和训诲。The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.

⁸我儿，要听你父亲的训诲，不可离弃你母亲的法则（或译：指教）；Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction, and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.

⁹因为这要作你头上的华冠，你项上的金链。For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

¹⁰我儿，恶人若引诱你，你不可随从。My son, if sinners entice you, do not yield to them.

¹¹他们若说：你与我们同去，我们要埋伏流人之血，要蹲伏害无罪之人；If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,

¹²我们好像阴间，把他们活活吞下；他们如同下坑的人，被我们囫囵吞了；let us swallow them alive like Sheol, and whole like those descending into the Pit.

¹³我们必得各样宝物，将所掳来的，装满房屋；We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.

¹⁴你与我们大家同分，我们共用一个囊袋；Throw in your lot with us; let us all share one purse”—

¹⁵我儿，不要与他们同行一道，禁止你脚走他们的路。my son, do not walk the road with them or set foot upon their path.

¹⁶因为，他们的脚奔跑行恶；他们急速流人的血，For their feet run to evil, and they are swift to shed blood.

¹⁷好像飞鸟，网罗设在眼前仍不躲避。How futile it is to spread the net where any bird can see it!

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

¹⁹凡贪恋财利的，所行之路都是如此；这贪恋之心乃夺去得财者之命。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，在宽阔处发声，Wisdom calls out in the street, she lifts her voice in the square;

²¹在热闹街头喊叫，在城门口，在城中发出言语，in the main concourse she cries aloud, at the city gates she makes her speech:

²²说：你们愚昧人喜爱愚昧，亵慢人喜欢亵慢，愚顽人恨恶知识，要到几时呢？“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

²³你们当因我的责备回转；我要将我的灵浇灌你们，将我的话指示你们。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我呼唤，你们不肯听从；我伸手，无人理会；Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,

²⁵反轻弃我一切的劝戒，不肯受我的责备。because you neglected all my counsel, and wanted none of my correction,

²⁶你们遭灾难，我就发笑；惊恐临到你们，我必嗤笑。in turn I will mock your calamity; I will sneer when terror strikes you,

²⁷惊恐临到你们，好像狂风；灾难来到，如同暴风；急难痛苦临到你们身上。when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.

²⁸那时，你们必呼求我，我却不答应，恳切地寻找我，却寻不见。Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.

²⁹因为，你们恨恶知识，不喜爱敬畏耶和华，For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.

³⁰不听我的劝戒，藐视我一切的责备，They accepted none of my counsel; they despised all my reproof.

³¹所以必吃自结的果子，充满自设的计谋。So they will eat the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

³²愚昧人背道，必杀己身；愚顽人安逸，必害己命。For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.

³³惟有听从我的，必安然居住，得享安静，不怕灾祸。But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”