Proverbs 2
1 My son, if you accept my sayings, And lay up my commands with you,
我兒，你若接受我的話，把我的誡命存在心中，
2 To cause your ear to attend to wisdom, You incline your heart to understanding,
側耳細聽智慧，專心尋求睿智；
3 For if you call for intelligence, [And] give forth your voice for intelligence,
你若呼求明哲，揚聲召尋睿智；
4 If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hid treasures,
你若尋求她如尋求銀子，搜索她如搜索寶藏，
5 Then you understand the fear of YHWH, And you find the knowledge of God.
你必能領悟什麼是敬畏上主，也能明白什麼是認識天主。
6 For YHWH gives wisdom, Knowledge and understanding from His mouth.
因為，恩賜智慧的是上主，知識和睿智都出自他的口。
7 Even to lay up substance for the upright, A shield for those walking uprightly.
他給正直人保留了救援，又是行止成全者的護盾。
8 To keep the paths of judgment, And He preserves the way of His saints.
他護守正直人的行徑，他保衛虔誠者的道路；
9 Then you understand righteousness, And judgment, and uprightness—every good path.
這樣，你必能明瞭仁義和公平，明瞭正直和一切向善的道路。
10 For wisdom comes into your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
如果智慧進入了你的心，智識成了你的喜樂，
11 Thoughtfulness watches over you, Understanding keeps you,
慎思就必監護你，睿智也必防守你，
12 To deliver you from an evil way, From any speaking contrary things,
使你遠離邪道，遠離言詞荒謬的人：
13 Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,
即那些離棄正道，走上黑暗之途，
14 Who are rejoicing to do evil, They delight in [the] contrariness of the wicked,
喜愛行惡，在邪惡中喜樂的人。
15 Whose paths [are] crooked, Indeed, they are perverted in their ways.
他們的道路彎曲不直，他們的行徑邪僻不正。
16 To deliver you from the strange woman, From the stranger who has made her sayings smooth,
智慧將救你脫離淫婦，脫離甘言蜜語的娼妓。
17 Who is forsaking the guide of her youth, And has forgotten the covenant of her God.
她離棄了少年時的良友，忘記了她的天主的盟約；
18 For her house has inclined to death, And her paths to Rephaim.
為此，她的家屬趨向死亡，她的行徑通往黃泉；
19 None going in to her return, Nor do they reach the paths of life.
凡行近她的人，沒有一個返回，再不會走上生路。
20 That you go in the way of the good, And keep the paths of the righteous.
為此，你應走善人的道路，持守義人的行徑，
21 For the upright inhabit the earth, And the perfect are left in it,
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。
22 And the wicked are cut off from the earth, And treacherous dealers plucked out of it!
但是，作惡的人必由地上剷除，違法的人必由其中拔除。
