< Proverbs 2 >

1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
我が子よ汝もし我が言をうけ 我が誡命を汝のこころに蔵め
2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
斯て汝の耳を智慧に傾け汝の心をさとりにむけ
3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
もし知識を呼求め聰明をえんと汝の聲をあげ
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
銀の如くこれを探り 秘れたる寳の如くこれを尋ねば
5 then you will understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.
汝ヱホバを畏るることを暁り 神を知ることを得べし
6 For the LORD gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
そはヱホバは智慧をあたへ 知識と聰明とその口より出づればなり
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
かれは義人のために聰明をたくはへ 直く行む者の盾となる
8 that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his faithful ones.
そは公平の途をたもち その聖徒の途すぢを守りたまへばなり
9 Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
斯て汝はつひに公義と公平と正直と一切の善道を暁らん
10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
すなはち智慧なんぢの心にいり 知識なんぢの霊魂に樂しからん
11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
謹愼なんぢを守り 聰明なんぢをたもちて
12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
惡き途よりすくひ虚偽をかたる者より救はん
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
彼等は直き途をはなれて幽暗き路に行み
14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
惡を行ふを樂しみ 惡者のいつはりを悦び
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
その途はまがり その行爲は邪曲なり
16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
聰明はまた汝を妓女より救ひ 言をもて諂ふ婦より救はん
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
彼はわかき時の侶をすて その神に契約せしことを忘るるなり
18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
その家は死に下り その途は陰府に赴く
19 None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
凡てかれにゆく者は歸らず また生命の途に達らざるなり
20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
聰明汝をたもちてよき途に行ませ 義人の途を守らしめん
21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
そは義人は地にながらへをり 完全者は地に止らん
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be uprooted out of it.
されど惡者は地より亡され悖逆者は地より抜さらるべし

< Proverbs 2 >