【箴言篇】第八章 << 上一章下一章 >>

8:1 智慧不是在呼唤，明智不是在发出她的呼声吗﹖
Does not Wisdom call, and Understanding raise her voice?

8:2 她站在高岗上，站在通衢大道上，
On the top of the heights along the road, at the crossroads she takes her stand;

8:3 她在城门口，在城入口处大声喊说：
By the gates at the approaches of the city, in the entryways she cries aloud:

8:4 人呀!我在向你们呼唤，我在对人子发出呼声：
"To you, O men, I call; my appeal is to the children of men.

8:5 幼稚的人，你们应学习机智；愚昧的人，你们应学习聪明。
You simple ones, gain resource, you fools, gain sense.

8:6 你们且听，因为我要讲论卓绝的事，开口述说正直的事。
"Give heed! for noble things I speak; honesty opens my lips.

8:7 的确，我的口只畅谈真理，我厌恶虚诈的唇舌。
Yes, the truth my mouth recounts, but the wickedness my lips abhor.

8:8 凡我口述的，无不正直，毫无歪曲或乖辟。
Sincere are all the words of my mouth, no one of them is wily or crooked;

8:9 我的话为明白的人是诚实的，为有智识的人是正确的。
All of them are plain to the man of intelligence, and right to those who attain knowledge.

8:10 你们应听取我的教训，而不要银子；应汲取智识，而不取纯金；
Receive my instruction in preference to silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.

8:11 因为智慧胜过任何珍珠，任何可贪恋的事都不能与她伦比。
(For Wisdom is better than corals, and no choice possessions can compare with her.)

8:12 我──智慧──与机智同居，拥有知识和见识。
"I, Wisdom, dwell with experience, and judicious knowledge I attain.

8:13 敬畏上主，就是憎恨邪恶傲慢骄横，邪恶的行径和欺诈的口舌，我都憎恶。
(The fear of the LORD is to hate evil;) Pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth I hate.

8:14 机谋才智，属我所有；聪明勇敢，亦属于我。
Mine are counsel and advice; Mine is strength; I am understanding.

8:15 借着我，君王执政，元首秉公行义；
By me kings reign, and lawgivers establish justice;

8:16 借着我，统治者统治，王侯治理邦土。
By me princes govern, and nobles; all the rulers of earth.

8:17 我爱那爱我的人；凡寻求我的，必找着我。
"Those who love me I also love, and those who seek me find me.

8:18 富贵荣誉，恒产正义，都属我有。
With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.

8:19 我的果实，胜过黄金纯金；我的出产，比净银还要宝贵。
My fruit is better than gold, yes, than pure gold, and my revenue than choice silver.

8:20 我走在正义的路上，走在公平的路上，
On the way of duty I walk, along the paths of justice,

8:21 使爱我者获得产业，充满他们的宝库。
Granting wealth to those who love me, and filling their treasuries.

8:22 上主自始即拿我作他行动的起始，作他作为的开端：
"The LORD begot me, the first-born of his ways, the forerunner of his prodigies of long ago;

8:23 大地还没有形成以前，远自太古，从无始我已被立；
From of old I was poured forth, at the first, before the earth.

8:24 深渊还没有存在，水泉还没有涌出以前，我已受生；
When there were no depths I was brought forth, when there were no fountains or springs of water;

8:25 山岳还没有奠定，丘陵还没有存在以前，我已受生。
Before the mountains were settled into place, before the hills, I was brought forth;

8:26 那时，上主还没有创造大地、原野、和世上土壤的原质；
While as yet the earth and the fields were not made, nor the first clods of the world.

8:27 当他建立高天时，我已在场；当他在深渊之上划出穹苍时，
"When he established the heavens I was there, when he marked out the vault over the face of the deep;

8:28 当他上使穹苍稳立，下使渊源固定时，
When he made firm the skies above, when he fixed fast the foundations of the earth;

8:29 当他为沧海划定界限，令水不要越境，给大地奠定基础时，
When he set for the sea its limit, so that the waters should not transgress his command;

8:30 我已在他身旁，充作技师。那时，我天天是他的喜悦，不断在他前欢跃，
Then was I beside him as his craftsman, and I was his delight day by day, Playing before him all the while,

8:31 欢跃于尘寰之间，乐与世人共处。
playing on the surface of his earth; and I found delight in the sons of men.

8:32 那么，我儿，你们且听我：遵循我道路的人是有福的。
"So now, O children, listen to me;

8:33 你们该听从教训，做一智慧人，不要把她拋弃。
instruction and wisdom do not reject! Happy the man who obeys me, and happy those who keep my ways,

8:34 凡听从我言，天天在我门前守候，在我门框旁侍立的人，是有福的。
Happy the man watching daily at my gates, waiting at my doorposts;

8:35 因为谁找到我，便是找到生命，他必由上主获得恩宠。
For he who finds me finds life, and wins favor from the LORD;

8:36 但是那得罪我的，等于伤害自己；凡憎恨我的，即是爱死亡。
But he who misses me harms himself; all who hate me love death."

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