旧约--箴言(Proverbs)--第 1 章
1:1 以色列王大卫儿子所罗门的箴言。
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
1:2 要使人晓得智慧和训诲。分辨通达的言语。
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
1:3 使人处世，领受智慧，仁义，公平，正直的训诲。
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
1:4 使愚人灵明，使少年人有知识和谋略。
To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
1:5 使智慧人听见，增长学问。使聪明人得着智谋。
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
1:6 使人明白箴言和譬喻，懂得智慧人的言词和谜语。
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
1:7 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 instruction.
1:8 我儿，要听你父亲的训诲，不可离弃你母亲的法则。（或作指教）
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
1:9 因为这要作为你头上的华冠，项上的金链。
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
1:10 我儿，恶人若引诱你，你不可随从。
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
1:11 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 with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
1:12 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 up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
1:13 我们必得各样宝物，将所掳来的装满房屋。
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
1:14 你与我们大家同分。我们共用一各囊袋。
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
1:15 我儿，不要与他们同行一道。禁止你脚走他们的路。
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
1:16 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 make haste to shed blood.
1:17 好像飞鸟，网罗设在眼前仍不躲避。
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
1:18 这些人埋伏，是为自流己血。蹲伏是为自害己命。
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
1:19 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。
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
1:20 智慧在街市上呼喊，在宽阔处发声。
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
1:21 在热闹街头喊叫，在城门口，在城中发出言语。
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
1:22 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, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
1:23 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。
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
1:24 我呼唤你们不肯听从。我伸手，无人理会。
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
1:25 反轻弃我一切的劝戒，不肯受我的责备。
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
1:26 你们遭灾难，我就发笑惊恐临到你们，我必嗤笑。
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
1:27 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 fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
1:28 那时，你们必呼求我，我却不答应，恳切的寻梢我，却寻不见。
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
1:29 因为你们恨恶知识，不喜爱敬畏耶和华，
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
1:30 不听我的劝戒，藐视我一切的责备，
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
1:31 所以必吃自结的果子，充满自设的计谋。
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
1:32 愚昧人背道，必杀己身，愚顽人安逸，必害己命。
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
1:33 惟有听从我的，必安然居住，得享安静，不怕灾祸。
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.