Proverbs 22
1 A [good] name is rather to be chosen than great riches; loving favour rather than silver and gold.
嘉名は大なる富にまさり恩寵は銀また金よりも佳し
2 The rich and poor meet together; Jehovah is the maker of them all.
富者と貧者と偕に世にをる 凡て之を造りし者はヱホバなり
3 A prudent [man] seeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.
賢者は災禍を見てみづから避け 拙者はすすみて罰をうく
4 The reward of humility [and] the fear of Jehovah is riches, and honour, and life.
謙遜とヱホバを畏るる事との報は富と尊貴と生命となり
5 Thorns [and] snares are in the way of the perverse: he that keepeth his soul holdeth himself far from them.
悖れる者の途には荊棘と罟とあり 霊魂を守る者は遠くこれを離れん
6 Train up the child according to the tenor of his way, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
子をその道に從ひて敎へよ 然ばその老たる時も之を離れじ
7 The rich ruleth over the poor; and the borrower is servant to the lender.
富者は貧者を治め借者は貸人の僕となる
8 He that soweth unrighteousness shall reap iniquity, and the rod of his wrath shall have an end.
惡を播くものは禍害を穡り その怒の杖は廢るべし
9 He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed, for he giveth of his bread to the poor.
人を見て惠む者はまた惠まる 此はその糧を貧者に與ふればなり
10 Cast out the scorner, and contention will depart, and strife and ignominy shall cease.
嘲笑者を逐へば爭論も亦さり 且闘諍も恥辱もやむ
11 He that loveth pureness of heart, upon whose lips is grace, the king is his friend.
心の潔きを愛する者はその口唇に憐憫をもてり 王その友とならん
12 The eyes of Jehovah preserve knowledge; but he overthroweth the words of the unfaithful.
ヱホバの目は知識ある者を守る 彼は悖れる者の言を敗りたまふ
13 The sluggard saith, There is a lion without, I shall be killed in the streets!
惰者はいふ獅そとにあり われ衢にて殺されんと
14 The mouth of strange women is a deep ditch: he with whom Jehovah is displeased shall fall therein.
妓婦の口は深き坑なり ヱホバに憎まるる者これに陷らん
15 Folly is bound in the heart of a child; the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
痴なること子の心の中に繋がる 懲治の鞭これを逐いだす
16 He that oppresseth the poor, it is to enrich him; he that giveth to the rich, [bringeth] only to want.
貧者を虐げて自らを富さんとする者と富者に與ふる者とは遂にかならず貧しくなる
17 Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thy heart unto my knowledge.
汝の耳を傾ぶけて智慧ある者の言をきき且なんぢの心をわが知識に用ゐよ
18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee: they shall be together fitted on thy lips.
之を汝の腹にたもちて 盡くなんぢの口唇にそなはらしめば樂しかるべし
19 That thy confidence may be in Jehovah, I have made [them] known to thee this day, even to thee.
汝をしてヱホバに倚賴ましめんが爲にわれ今日これを汝に敎ふ
20 Have not I written to thee excellent things, in counsels and knowledge,
われ勸言と知識とをふくみたる勝れし言を汝の爲に録ししにあらずや
21 that I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest carry back words of truth to them that send thee?
これ汝をして眞の言の確實なることを暁らしめ 且なんぢを遣しし者に眞の言を持歸らしめん爲なり
22 Rob not the poor, because he is poor, neither oppress the afflicted in the gate;
弱き者を弱きがために掠むることなかれ 艱難者を門にて壓つくること勿れ
23 for Jehovah will plead their cause, and despoil the soul of those that despoil them.
そはヱホバその訴を糺し且かれらを害ふものの生命をそこなはん
24 Make no friendship with an angry man, and go not with a furious man;
怒る者と交ること勿れ 憤ほる人とともに往ことなかれ
25 lest thou learn his paths, and get a snare to thy soul.
恐くは汝その道に效ひてみづから罟に陷らん
26 Be not of them that strike hands, of them that are sureties for debts:
なんぢ人と手をうつ者となることなかれ 人の負債の保證をなすこと勿れ
27 if thou hast nothing to pay, why should he take away thy bed from under thee?
汝もし償ふべきものあらずば人なんぢの下なる臥牀までも奪ひ取ん 是豈よからんや
28 Remove not the ancient landmark which thy fathers have set.
なんぢの先祖がたてし古き地界を移すこと勿れ
29 Hast thou seen a man diligent in his work? He shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before the mean.
汝その業に巧なる人を見るか 斯る人は王の前に立ん かならず賤者の前にたたじ
