< Proverbs 24 >

1 Be not envious of evil men, And desire not 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 destruction doth their heart meditate, And perverseness do their lips speak.
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 By wisdom is a house builded, And by understanding it establisheth itself.
家は智慧によりて建られ 明哲によりて堅くせられ
4 And by knowledge the inner parts are filled, [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 Mighty [is] the wise 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 by plans thou makest for thyself war, And deliverance [is] in a multitude of counsellors.
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, In the gate he openeth not his mouth.
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 Whoso is devising to do evil, Him they call 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 an abomination to man [is] a scorner.
愚なる者の謀るところは罪なり 嘲笑者は人に憎まる
10 Thou hast shewed thyself weak in a day of adversity, Straitened is thy power,
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 those slipping to the slaughter — thou keepest back.
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 thou sayest, 'Lo, we knew not this.' Is not the Ponderer of hearts He who understandeth? And the Keeper of thy soul He who knoweth? And He hath 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 Eat my son, honey that [is] good, And the honeycomb — sweet to thy 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 thy soul, If thou hast found that there is a posterity And thy 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 Lay not 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 seven [times] doth the righteous fall and rise, 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 In the falling of thine enemy rejoice not, And in his stumbling let not thy heart be joyful,
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 Jehovah see, and [it be] evil in His eyes, And He hath turned from off him His anger.
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 Fret not thyself at evil doers, Be not 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 Jehovah, my son, and the king, With changers mix not up thyself,
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 suddenly doth their calamity rise, And the ruin of them both — who knoweth!
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 also are for the wise: — To discern faces in judgment is not good.
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 Whoso is saying to the wicked, 'Thou [art] 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 to those reproving it is pleasant, And on them cometh a good blessing.
これを譴る者は恩をえん また福祉これにきたるべし
26 Lips he kisseth who is returning straightforward words.
ほどよき應答をなす者は口唇に接吻するなり
27 Prepare in an out-place thy work, And make it ready in the field — go afterwards, Then thou hast built thy 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 Be not a witness for nought against thy neighbour, Or thou hast enticed with thy 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 Say not, '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 Near the field of a slothful man I passed by, 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 lo, it hath gone up — all of it — thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath 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 — I do 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 thy poverty hath come [as] a traveller, And thy 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

< Proverbs 24 >