箴言 2
1 我兒，你若接受我的話，把我的誡命存在心中，
My son, listen to what I say, and [consider my instructions to be as valuable as] [MET] a treasure.
2 側耳細聽智慧，專心尋求睿智；
Pay attention to wisdom and try hard to understand it.
3 你若呼求明哲，揚聲召尋睿智；
Call out [to God] to get insight; plead with him to help you to understand more [of what he wants you to know].
4 你若尋求她如尋求銀子，搜索她如搜索寶藏，
Search [eagerly] for wisdom, like you would search for silver, like you would search for a treasure that someone has hidden.
5 你必能領悟什麼是敬畏上主，也能明白什麼是認識天主。
If you do that, you will understand how to revere Yahweh, and you will succeed in knowing God.
6 因為，恩賜智慧的是上主，知識和睿智都出自他的口。
Yahweh is the one who gives us wisdom. He is the one who tells us things that we need to know and understand.
7 他給正直人保留了救援，又是行止成全者的護盾。
He gives good advice to those who conduct their lives as they should. He protects [MET] those who do what is right.
8 他護守正直人的行徑，他保衛虔誠者的道路；
He guards those who act justly/fairly [toward others], and he watches over those who are faithful/loyal [to him].
9 這樣，你必能明瞭仁義和公平，明瞭正直和一切向善的道路。
[If you ask God for wisdom], you will understand what is right and just [DOU] [to do], and [you will know] the right way to conduct your life,
10 如果智慧進入了你的心，智識成了你的喜樂，
because you will be wise in your inner being; and knowing [what God wants you to know] will cause you to be joyful.
11 慎思就必監護你，睿智也必防守你，
If you know [PRS] how to choose what is right to do and if you understand [what God wants] you to do, God will protect you and guard you and keep you safe.
12 使你遠離邪道，遠離言詞荒謬的人：
If you are wise [PRS], you will not do what evil people do, and you will not [believe what] deceitful people say.
13 即那些離棄正道，走上黑暗之途，
Deceitful people have stopped acting fairly/justly [toward others] and (walk on dark and evil paths/do what evil people do) [MET].
14 喜愛行惡，在邪惡中喜樂的人。
They enjoy doing what is wrong; they like to do what is evil and to deceive [people].
15 他們的道路彎曲不直，他們的行徑邪僻不正。
They (walk on crooked paths/always deceive others) and are always dishonest.
16 智慧將救你脫離淫婦，脫離甘言蜜語的娼妓。
If you are wise [PRS], you will [also] be saved from (immoral women/prostitutes); you will not pay attention when adulterous women try to (seduce/entice you by what they say.)
17 她離棄了少年時的良友，忘記了她的天主的盟約；
Those women have left the husbands whom they married when they were young; they have disregarded the solemn promise they made to God [not to commit adultery].
18 為此，她的家屬趨向死亡，她的行徑通往黃泉；
If you go into houses of women who are like that, you will die [when you are still young]; the road [to their houses] leads to hell. (questioned)
19 凡行近她的人，沒有一個返回，再不會走上生路。
No man who (visits/sleeps with) a woman like that will again [live harmoniously with his family]. He will never have a [happy] life again.
20 為此，你應走善人的道路，持守義人的行徑，
If [you are wise], you should behave like good men behave. You should (stay on the paths that righteous [people] walk on/do what godly people do) [MET],
21 因為只有正直的人纔能住在地上，只有成全的人方得在那裏居留。
because only godly people will live in this land [and receive God’s blessings]; [only] those who have not done wrong will stay here [for a long time].
22 但是，作惡的人必由地上剷除，違法的人必由其中拔除。
Wicked [people] will be expelled from this land, and [people] who are not trustworthy will be thrown {God will throw them} out of it.
