Proverbs 24
1 Do not envy evil people; do not desire to associate with them,
悪を行う人をうらやんではならない、また彼らと共におることを願ってはならない。
2 because they are [constantly] thinking about acting violently, and whenever they speak [MTY], they talk about (causing trouble/hurting someone).
彼らはその心に強奪を計り、そのくちびるに人をそこなうことを語るからである。
3 People make good houses (OR, families) by doing what is wise, and they make their houses (OR, families) strong by [heeding] good advice.
家は知恵によって建てられ、悟りによって堅くせられ、
4 By using good sense, [they are able to buy] valuable and beautiful things and put them in the rooms of their houses.
また、へやは知識によってさまざまの尊く、麗しい宝で満たされる。
5 Being wise is better than being strong/powerful; those who know [many things can accomplish more] than those who are [very] strong.
知恵ある者は強い人よりも強く、知識ある人は力ある人よりも強い。
6 Leaders can fight battles if they have wise advisors, and they win those battles if they have many good advisors.
良い指揮によって戦いをすることができ、勝利は多くの議する者がいるからである。
7 Foolish people cannot understand wise sayings/talk; at public meetings they are not [able to] say anything [that is useful].
知恵は高くて愚かな者の及ぶところではない、愚かな者は門で口を開くことができない。
8 Those who are [always] planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.
悪を行うことを計る者を人はいたずら者ととなえる。
9 It is sinful to plan to do foolish things, and people hate those who make fun of [everything that is good].
愚かな者の計るところは罪であり、あざける者は人に憎まれる。
10 If you [act as though] you are helpless when you have troubles, you are [truly very] weak.
もしあなたが悩みの日に気をくじくならば、あなたの力は弱い。
11 [If it is unjustly decided] that someone must be executed, [try hard to] rescue them [DOU].
死地にひかれゆく者を助け出せ、滅びによろめきゆく者を救え。
12 If you say, “I did not know anything about it, [so (it is not my concern/I did not try to help him)],” remember that God knows what we have done, and he knows what we were thinking [IDM, RHQ], and he will certainly [RHQ] repay us as we deserve for what we have done or for not doing what we should have done.
あなたが、われわれはこれを知らなかったといっても、心をはかる者はそれを悟らないであろうか。あなたの魂を守る者はそれを知らないであろうか。彼はおのおのの行いにより、人に報いないであろうか。
13 My child/son, eat honey, because it is good [for you]; the honey that drips from honeycombs tastes [very] sweet.
わが子よ、蜜を食べよ、これは良いものである、また、蜂の巣のしたたりはあなたの口に甘い。
14 Similarly, being wise is good for your soul; if you become wise, you will be [happy in] the future, and [God] will certainly [do for you what you are] confidently expecting him to do [LIT].
知恵もあなたの魂にはそのようであることを知れ。それを得るならば、かならず報いがあって、あなたの望みは、すたらない。
15 Do not be like wicked people who [hide and] wait to break into the houses of righteous/good [people] and rob/steal things.
悪しき者がするように、正しい者の家をうかがってはならない、その住む所に乱暴をしてはならない。
16 [Even if] good people fall down seven/many times, they [always] stand/get up again, but when a disaster happens to wicked [people], it ruins/destroys them.
正しい者は七たび倒れても、また起きあがる、しかし、悪しき者は災によって滅びる。
17 Do not be happy when something bad happens to one of your enemies; do not rejoice when he stumbles and falls,
あなたのあだが倒れるとき楽しんではならない、彼のつまずくとき心に喜んではならない。
18 because Yahweh will know what you are thinking, and he will not like it, and [as a result] he will not punish that enemy of yours.
主はそれを見て悪いこととし、その怒りを彼から転じられる。
19 Do not become angry/upset about those who do what is evil, and do not [SYN] envy them,
悪を行う者のゆえに心を悩ましてはならない、よこしまな者をうらやんではならない。
20 because [nothing good] will happen to wicked people; they are [like] a lamp that will soon be extinguished [MET].
悪しき者には後の良い報いはない、よこしまな者のともしびは消される。
21 My child/son, revere Yahweh and [also] honor the king, and do not associate with people who want to rebel against either of them,
わが子よ、主と王とを恐れよ、そのいずれにも不従順であってはならない。
22 because those people will suddenly experience disasters; and no one knows [RHQ] what great disasters that God or the king can cause to happen to them.
その災はたちまち起るからである。この二つの者からくる滅びをだれが知り得ようか。
23 Here are more things that wise [people] have said: It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly [IDM].
これらもまた知恵ある者の箴言である。片寄ったさばきをするのは、よくない。
24 If they say to people who are guilty, “You (are innocent/have not done something that is wrong),” [even] people in other nations will curse and despise them,
悪しき者に向かって、「あなたは正しい」という者を、人々はのろい、諸民は憎む。
25 but if judges say that guilty people must be punished, things will go well for those judges, and (they will receive blessings/God will bless them).
悪しき者をせめる者は恵みを得る、また幸福が与えられる。
26 Those who answer others honestly show that they are truly their friends [IDM].
正しい答をする者は、くちびるに、口づけするのである。
27 First, do the work [that needs to be done] outside [your house], and prepare your fields, [and then plant things], and after you finish doing that, build your house.
外で、あなたの仕事を整え、畑で、すべての物をおのれのために備え、その後あなたの家を建てるがよい。
28 [In the courtroom] do not testify against someone when you have no reason to do that, and do not [try to] deceive [people] by what you say [MTY].
ゆえなく隣り人に敵して、証言をしてはならない、くちびるをもって欺いてはならない。
29 Do not say, “I will do to him what he did to me; I will pay him back for [the bad things that] he did to me.”
「彼がわたしにしたように、わたしも彼にしよう、わたしは人がしたところにしたがって、その人に報いよう」と言ってはならない。
30 One day I walked by the vineyards of a lazy man, a man who did not have good sense.
わたしはなまけ者の畑のそばと、知恵のない人のぶどう畑のそばを通ってみたが、
31 I was surprised to see that the fields were full of all kinds of thorny bushes, and the stone wall [around the garden] had (collapsed/fallen down).
いばらが一面に生え、あざみがその地面をおおい、その石がきはくずれていた。
32 When I saw that, I thought about it, and I learned this:
わたしはこれをみて心をとどめ、これを見て教訓を得た。
33 [If you spend a lot of time] sleeping and napping and folding your hands while you rest,
「しばらく眠り、しばらくまどろみ、手をこまぬいて、またしばらく休む」。
34 [soon] you will become poor; [it will be as though] [PRS, SIM] a bandit who had a weapon in his hand [attacked you and stole all that you had].
それゆえ、貧しさは盗びとのように、あなたに来、乏しさは、つわもののように、あなたに来る。
