Proverbs 24
1 Do not be envious of evil men, And do not desire to be with them.
なんぢ惡き人を羨むことなかれ 又これと偕に居らんことを願ふなかれ
2 For their heart meditates [on] destruction, And their lips speak perverseness.
そはその心に暴虐をはかり その口唇に人を害ふことをいへばなり
3 A house is built by wisdom, And it establishes itself by understanding.
家は智慧によりて建られ 明哲によりて堅くせられ
4 And the inner parts are filled by knowledge, [With] all precious and pleasant wealth.
また室は知識によりて各種の貴く美しき寳にて充されん
5 The wise [is] mighty in strength, And a man of knowledge is strengthening power,
智慧ある者は強し 知識ある人は力をます
6 For you make war for yourself by plans, And deliverance [is] in a multitude of counselors.
汝よき謀計をもて戰闘をなせ 勝利は議者の多きによる
7 Wisdom [is] high for a fool, he does not open his mouth in the gate.
智慧は高くして愚なる者の及ぶところにあらず 愚なる者は門にて口を啓くことをえず
8 Whoever is devising to do evil, They call him a master of wicked thoughts.
惡をなさんと謀る者を邪曲なる者と稱ふ
9 The thought of folly [is] sin, And a scorner [is] an abomination to man.
愚なる者の謀るところは罪なり 嘲笑者は人に憎まる
10 You have showed yourself weak in a day of adversity, Your power is restricted,
汝もし患難の日に氣を挫かば汝の力は弱し
11 If [from] delivering those taken to death, And you take back those slipping to the slaughter.
なんぢ死地に曳れゆく者を拯へ 滅亡によろめきゆく者をすくはざる勿れ
12 When you say, “Behold, we did not know this.” Is the Ponderer of hearts not He who understands? And the Keeper of your soul He who knows? And He has rendered to man according to his work.
汝われら之を知らずといふとも心をはかる者これを暁らざらんや 汝の霊魂をまもる者これを知ざらんや 彼はおのおのの行爲によりて人に報ゆべし
13 My son, eat honey that [is] good, And the honeycomb [is] sweet to your palate.
わが子よ蜜を食へ 是は美ものなり また蜂のすの滴瀝を食へ 是はなんぢの口に甘し
14 So [is] the knowledge of wisdom to your soul, If you have found that there is a posterity And your hope is not cut off.
智慧の汝の霊魂におけるも是の如しと知れ これを得ばかならず報いありて汝の望すたれじ
15 Do not lay wait, O wicked one, At the habitation of the righteous. Do not spoil his resting place.
惡者よ義者の家を窺ふことなかれ その安居所を攻ること勿れ
16 For the righteous fall and rise seven [times], And the wicked stumble in evil.
そは義者は七次たふるるともまた起く されど惡者は禍災によりて亡ぶ
17 Do not rejoice in the falling of your enemy, And do not let your heart be joyful in his stumbling,
汝の仇たふるるとき樂しむこと勿れ 彼の亡ぶるときこころに喜ぶことなかれ
18 Lest YHWH see, and [it be] evil in His eyes, And He has turned His anger from off him.
恐くはヱホバこれを見て惡しとし その震怒を彼より離れしめたまはん
19 Do not fret yourself at evildoers, do not be envious at the wicked,
なんぢ惡者を怒ることなかれ 邪曲なる者を羨むなかれ
20 For there is not a posterity to the evil, The lamp of the wicked is extinguished.
それ惡者には後の善賚なし 邪曲なる者の燈火は滅されん
21 Fear YHWH, my son, and the king, Do not mix yourself up with changers,
わが子よヱホバと王とを畏れよ 叛逆者に交ること勿れ
22 For their calamity rises suddenly, And the ruin of them both—who knows!
斯るものらの災禍は速におこる この兩者の滅亡はたれか知えんや
23 These are also for the wise: [It] is not good to discern faces in judgment.
是等もまた智慧ある者の箴言なり 偏り鞫するは善らず
24 Whoever is saying to the wicked, “You [are] righteous,” Peoples execrate him—nations abhor him.
罪人に告て汝は義しといふものをは衆人これを詛ひ諸民これを惡まん
25 And it is pleasant to those reproving, And a good blessing comes on them.
これを譴る者は恩をえん また福祉これにきたるべし
26 He who is returning straightforward words kisses lips.
ほどよき應答をなす者は口唇に接吻するなり
27 Prepare your work in an out-place, And make it ready in the field—go afterward, Then you have built your house.
外にて汝の工をととのへ田圃にてこれを自己のためにそなへ 然るのち汝の家を建よ
28 Do not be a witness against your neighbor for nothing, Or you have enticed with your lips.
故なく汝の鄰に敵して證することなかれ 汝なんぞ口唇をもて欺くべけんや
29 Do not say, “As he did to me, so I do to him, I render to each according to his work.”
彼の我に爲しし如く我も亦かれになすべし われ人の爲ししところに循ひてこれに報いんといふこと勿れ
30 I passed by near the field of a slothful man, And near the vineyard of a man lacking heart.
われ曾て惰人の田圃と智慧なき人の葡萄園とをすぎて見しに
31 And behold, it has gone up—all of it—thorns! Nettles have covered its face, And its stone wall has been broken down.
荊棘あまねく生え薊その地面を掩ひ その石垣くづれゐたり
32 And I see—I set my heart, I have seen—I have received instruction,
我これをみて心をとどめ これを觀て敎をえたり
33 A little sleep—a little slumber—A little folding of the hands to lie down.
しばらく臥し 暫らく睡り 手を叉きて又しばらく休む
34 And your poverty has come [as] a traveler, And your want as an armed man!
さらば汝の貧窮は盗人のごとく汝の缺乏は兵士の如くきたるべし
