Proverbs 7
1 My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
我子よわが言をまもり我が誡命を汝の心にたくはへよ
2 Keep my commandments and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.
我が誡命をまもりで生命をえよ 我法を守ること汝の眸子を守るが如くせよ
3 Bind them upon thy fingers; write them upon the table of thine heart.
これを汝の指にむすび これを汝の心の碑に銘せ
4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding [thy] kinswoman:
なんぢ智慧にむかひて汝はわが姉妹なりといひ 明理にむかひて汝はわが友なりといへ
5 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.
さらば汝をまもりて淫婦にまよはざらしめ 言をもて媚る娼妓にとほざからしめん
6 For at the window of my house I looked forth through my lattice;
われ我室の牖により檑子よりのぞきて
7 And I beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding,
拙き者のうち幼弱者のうちに一人の智慧なき者あるを觀たり
8 Passing through the street near her corner, and he went the way to her house;
彼衢をすぎ婦の門にちかづき其家の路にゆき
9 In the twilight, in the evening of the day, in the blackness of night and the darkness.
黄昏に半宵に夜半に黑暗の中にあるけり
10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot, and wily of heart.
時に娼妓の衣を着たる狡らなる婦かれにあふ
11 She is clamorous, and wilful; her feet abide not in her house:
この婦は譁しくしてつつしみなく 其足は家に止らず
12 Now she is in the streets, now in the broad places, and lieth in wait at every corner.
あるときは衢にあり 或時はひろばにあり すみずみにたちて人をうかがふ
13 So she caught him, and kissed him, [and] with an impudent face she said unto him:
この婦かれをひきて接吻し恥しらぬ面をもていひけるは
14 Sacrifices of peace offerings are with me; this day have I paid my vows.
われ酬恩祭を献げ今日すでにわが誓願を償せり
15 Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
これによりて我なんぢを迎へんとていで 汝の面をたづねて汝に逢へり
16 I have spread my couch with carpets of tapestry, with striped cloths of the yarn of Egypt.
わが榻には美しき褥およびエジプトの文枲をしき
17 I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
沒藥蘆薈桂皮をもて我が榻にそそげり
18 Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; let us solace ourselves with loves.
來れわれら詰朝まで情をつくし愛をかよはして相なぐさめん
19 For the goodman is not at home, he is gone a long journey:
そは夫は家にあらず遠く旅立して
20 He hath taken a bag of money with him; he will come home at the full moon.
手に金嚢をとれり 望月ならでは家に歸らじと
21 With her much fair speech she causeth him to yield, with the flattering of her lips she forceth him away.
多の婉言をもて惑し口唇の諂媚をもて誘へば
22 He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as fetters to the correction of the fool;
わかき人ただちにこれに隨へり あだかも牛の宰地にゆくが如く 愚なる者の桎梏をかけらるる爲にゆくが如し
23 Till an arrow strike through his liver; as a bird hasteth to the snare, and knoweth not that it is for his life.
遂には矢その肝を刺さん 鳥の速かに羅にいりてその生命を喪ふに至るを知ざるがごとし
24 Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
小子等よいま我にきけ 我が口の言に耳を傾けよ
25 Let not thine heart decline to her ways, go not astray in her paths.
なんぢの心を淫婦の道にかたむくること勿れ またこれが徑に迷ふこと勿れ
26 For she hath cast down many wounded: yea, all her slain are a mighty host.
そは彼は多の人を傷つけて仆せり 彼に殺されたる者ぞ多かる
