| 箴言 | Proverbs |
|---|
| 1我儿，你若接受我的话，把我的诫命存在心中， | 1My son, if you heed my words and value my commands, |
| 2侧耳细听智慧，专心寻求睿智； | 2with your ear attentive to wisdom and your heart obedient to understanding; |
| 3你若呼求明哲，扬声召寻睿智； | 3if you call for perception and raise your voice for insight; |
| 4你若寻求她如寻求银子，搜索她如搜索宝藏， | 4if you seek it as silver and search for it more than any treasure |
| 5你必能领悟什么是敬畏上主，也能明白什么是认识天主。 | 5then you will understand the fear of Yahweh, and you will find the knowledge of God. |
| 6因为，恩赐智慧的是上主，知识和睿智都出自他的口。 | 6For Yahweh gives wisdom and from his mouth come knowledge and insight. |
| 7他给正直人保留了救援，又是行止成全者的护盾。 | 7He reserves his help for the upright and is a shield for those who walk in integrity; |
| 8他护守正直人的行径，他保卫虔诚者的道路； | 8he guards the ways of the just and protects the steps of his faithful. |
| 9这样，你必能明了仁义和公平，明了正直和一切向善的道路。 | 9Then you will understand justice, discernment and integrity - all that leads you to happiness. |
| 10如果智慧进入了你的心，智识成了你的喜乐， | 10Wisdom will abide in your heart and knowledge will comfort your inner self. |
| 11慎思就必监护你，睿智也必防守你， | 11Foresight will guide you and understanding will protect you. |
| 12使你远离邪道，远离言词荒谬的人： | 12It will guard you from evil, from people of misleading speech, |
| 13即那些离弃正道，走上黑暗之途， | 13from those who have abandoned the ways of honesty to walk the roads of darkness; |
| 14喜爱行恶，在邪恶中喜乐的人。 | 14they rejoice in evildoing, they revel in perversions; |
| 15他们的道路弯曲不直，他们的行径邪僻不正。 | 15their paths are crooked and their ways devious. |
| 16智慧将救你脱离淫妇，脱离甘言蜜语的娼妓。 | 16Wisdom keeps you from the alien woman, from the stranger with her smooth words, |
| 17她离弃了少年时的良友，忘记了她的天主的盟约； | 17who deserts the partner of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. |
| 18为此，她的家属趋向死亡，她的行径通往黄泉； | 18For her house inclines towards death, her paths towards the grave. |
| 19凡行近她的人，没有一个返回，再不会走上生路。 | 19Those who go to her never return, they do not regain the paths of life. |
| 20为此，你应走善人的道路，持守义人的行径， | 20So you will walk along the way of the good, and keep to the paths of the virtuous. |
| 21因为只有正直的人才能住在地上，只有成全的人方得在那里居留。 | 21For the honest will inherit the land; the people of integrity will live on it. |
| 22但是，作恶的人必由地上铲除，违法的人必由其中拔除。 | 22The evildoers instead will be cut off from the land. The wicked will be rooted out of it. |
