Proverbs 23
1 When thou sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently him who is before thee,
なんぢ侯たる者とともに坐して食ふときは 愼みて汝の前にある者の誰なるかを思へ
2 and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite.
汝もし食を嗜む者ならば汝の喉に刀をあてよ
3 Be not desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
その珍饈を貧り食ふこと勿れ これ迷惑の食物なればなり
4 Weary not thyself to be rich. Out of thine own wisdom, cease.
富を得んと思煩らふこと勿れ 自己の明哲を恃むこと勿れ
5 Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
なんぢ虚しきに歸すべき者に目をとむるか 富はかならず自ら翅を生じて鷲のごとく天に飛さらん
6 Eat thou not the bread of an evil eye, nor desire thou his dainties.
惡目をする者の糧をくらふことなく その珍饈をむさぼりねがふことなかれ
7 For as he thinks within himself, so is he. Eat and drink, he says to thee, but his heart is not with thee.
そはその心に思ふごとくその人となりも亦しかればなり 彼なんぢに食へ飮めといふこといへどもその心は汝に眞實ならず
8 The morsel which thou have eaten thou shall vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
汝つひにその食へる物を吐出すにいたり 且その出しし懇懃の言もむなしくならん
9 Speak not in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
愚なる者の耳に語ること勿れ 彼なんぢが言の示す明哲を藐めん
10 Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,
古き地界を移すことなかれ 孤子の畑を侵すことなかれ
11 for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.
そはかれが贖者は強し 必ず汝に對らひて之が訴をのべん
12 Apply thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
汝の心を敎に用ゐ 汝の耳を知識の言に傾けよ
13 Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
子を懲すことを爲ざるなかれ 鞭をもて彼を打とも死ることあらじ
もし鞭をもて彼をうたばその霊魂を陰府より救ふことをえん (Sheol h7585)
15 My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine.
わが子よもし汝のこころ智からば我が心もまた歓び
16 Yea, my heart will rejoice when thy lips speak right things.
もし汝の口唇ただしき事をいはば我が腎腸も喜ぶべし
17 Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long.
なんぢ心に罪人をうらやむ勿れ ただ終日ヱホバを畏れよ
18 For surely there is a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
そは必ず應報ありて汝の望は廢らざればなり
19 Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
わが子よ 汝ききて智慧をえ かつ汝の心を道にかたぶけよ
20 Be not among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of flesh.
酒にふけり肉をたしむものと交ること勿れ
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
それ酒にふける者と肉を嗜む者とは貧しくなり 睡眠を貧る者は敞れたる衣をきるにいたらん
22 Hearken to thy father who begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
汝を生る父にきけ 汝の老たる母を軽んずる勿れ
23 Buy the truth, and do not sell it, yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
眞理を買へ これを售るなかれ 智慧と誡命と知識とまた然あれ
24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him.
義き者の父は大によろこび 智慧ある子を生る者はこれがために樂しまん
25 Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.
汝の父母を樂しませ 汝を生る者を喜ばせよ
26 My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.
わが子よ汝の心を我にあたへ 汝の目にわが途を樂しめ
27 For a harlot is a deep ditch, and an interloping woman is a narrow pit.
それ妓婦は深き坑のごとく 淫婦は狭き井のごとし
28 Yea, she lies in wait as a robber, and increases the treacherous among men.
彼は盗賊のごとく人を窺ひ かつ世の人の中に悖れる者を増なり
29 Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
禍害ある者は誰ぞ 憂愁ある者は誰ぞ 爭端をなす者は誰ぞ 煩慮ある者は誰ぞ 故なくして傷をうくる者は誰ぞ 赤目ある者は誰ぞ
30 Those who tarry long at the wine. Those who go to seek out mixed wine.
是すなはち酒に夜をふかすもの 往て混和せたる酒を味ふる者なり
31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
酒はあかく盃の中に泡だち滑かにくだる 汝これを見るなかれ
32 At the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
是は終に蛇のごとく噬み蝮の如く刺すべし
33 Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
また汝の目は怪しきものを見 なんぢの心は諕言をいはん
34 Yea, thou shall be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies upon the top of a mast.
汝は海のなかに偃すもののごとく帆桅の上に偃すもののごとし
35 They have stricken me, thou shall say, and I was not hurt. They have beaten me, and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
汝いはん人われを撃ども我いたまず 我を拷けども我おぼえず 我さめなばまた酒を求めんと
