< Proverbs 2 >

1 My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my mitzvot ·instructions· within you;
我兒，你若領受我的言語， 存記我的命令，
2 So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
側耳聽智慧， 專心求聰明，
3 Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
呼求明哲， 揚聲求聰明，
4 If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
尋找它，如尋找銀子， 搜求它，如搜求隱藏的珍寶，
5 then you will understand the fear of Adonai, and find the knowledge of God.
你就明白敬畏耶和華， 得以認識上帝。
6 For Adonai gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
因為，耶和華賜人智慧； 知識和聰明都由他口而出。
7 He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
他給正直人存留真智慧， 給行為純正的人作盾牌，
8 that he may guard the paths of mishpat ·justice·, and preserve the way of his saints.
為要保守公平人的路， 護庇虔敬人的道。
9 Then you will understand righteousness and mishpat ·justice·, equity and every good path.
你也必明白仁義、公平、 正直、一切的善道。
10 For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
智慧必入你心； 你的靈要以知識為美。
11 Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
謀略必護衛你； 聰明必保守你，
12 to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
要救你脫離惡道， 脫離說乖謬話的人。
13 who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
那等人捨棄正直的路， 行走黑暗的道，
14 who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
歡喜作惡， 喜愛惡人的乖僻，
15 who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
在他們的道中彎曲， 在他們的路上偏僻。
16 To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
智慧要救你脫離淫婦， 就是那油嘴滑舌的外女。
17 who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant ·binding contract between two or more parties· of her God:
她離棄幼年的配偶， 忘了上帝的盟約。
18 for her house leads down to death, her paths to the departed spirits.
她的家陷入死地； 她的路偏向陰間。 (questioned)
19 None who go to her teshuvah ·completely return· again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
凡到她那裏去的，不得轉回， 也得不着生命的路。
20 that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the upright.
智慧必使你行善人的道， 守義人的路。
21 For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
正直人必在世上居住； 完全人必在地上存留。
22 But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be rooted out of it.
惟有惡人必然剪除； 奸詐的，必然拔出。

< Proverbs 2 >