箴言 知恵の泉 6
1 我子よ汝もし朋友のために保證をなし 他人のために汝の手を拍ば
My son, if thou art become surety for thy neighbour, if thou hast struck thy hands for a stranger —
2 汝その口の言によりてわなにかかり その口の言によりてとらへらるるなり
Thou art snared by the words of thy mouth, thou art caught by the words of thy mouth —
3 我子よ汝友の手に陷りしならば斯して自ら救へ すなはち往て自ら謙だり只管なんぢの友に求め
Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, seeing thou art come into the hand of thy neighbour; go, humble thyself, and urge thy neighbour.
4 汝の目をして睡らしむることなく 汝の眼瞼をして閉しむること勿れ
Give not sleep to thine eyes, nor slumber to thine eyelids.
5 かりうどの手より鹿ののがるるごとく 鳥とる者の手より鳥ののがるる如くして みづからを救へ
Deliver thyself as a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, and as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
6 惰者よ蟻にゆき其爲すところを觀て智慧をえよ
Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise;
7 蟻は首領なく有司なく君主なけれども
Which having no chief, overseer, or ruler,
8 夏のうちに食をそなへ 収穫のときに糧を斂む
Provideth her bread in the summer, and gatherest her food in the harvest.
9 惰者よ汝いづれの時まで臥息むや いづれの時まで睡りて起ざるや
How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep?
10 しばらく臥ししばらく睡り 手を叉きてまた片時やすむ
'Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep' —
11 さらば汝の貧窮は盗人の如くきたり汝の缺乏は兵士の如くきたるべし
So shall thy poverty come as a runner, and thy want as an armed man.
12 邪曲なる人あしき人は虚偽の言をもて事を行ふ
A base person, a man of iniquity, is he that walketh with a froward mouth;
13 彼は眼をもて眴せし 脚をもてしらせ 指をもて示す
That winketh with his eyes, that scrapeth with his feet, that pointeth with his fingers;
14 その心に虚偽をたもち 常に惡をはかり 爭端を起す
Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth evil continually; he soweth discord.
15 この故にその禍害にはかに來り 援助なくして立刻に敗らるべし
Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; on a sudden shall he be broken, and that without remedy.
16 ヱホバの憎みたまふもの六あり 否その心に嫌ひたまふもの七あり
There are six things which the LORD hateth, yea, seven which are an abomination unto Him:
17 即ち驕る目いつはりをいふ舌 つみなき人の血を流す手
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood;
18 惡き謀計をめぐらす心 すみやかに惡に趨る足
A heart that deviseth wicked thoughts, feet that are swift in running to evil;
19 詐僞をのぶる證人 および兄弟のうちに爭端をおこす者なり
A false witness that breatheth out lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
20 我子よ汝の父の誡命を守り 汝の母の法を棄る勿れ
My son, keep the commandment of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
21 常にこれを汝の心にむす び之をなんぢの頸に佩よ
Bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck.
22 これは汝のゆくとき汝をみちびき 汝の寝るとき汝をまもり 汝の寤るとき汝とかたらん
When thou walkest, it shall lead thee, when thou liest down, it shall watch over thee; and when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee.
23 それ誡命は燈火なり 法は光なり 敎訓の懲治は生命の道なり
For the commandment is a lamp, and the teaching is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life;
24 これは汝をまもりて惡き婦よりまぬかれしめ 汝をたもちて淫婦の舌の諂媚にまどはされざらしめん
To keep thee from the evil woman, from the smoothness of the alien tongue.
25 その艶美を心に戀ふことなかれ その眼瞼に捕へらるること勿れ
Lust not after her beauty in thy heart; neither let her captivate thee with her eyelids.
26 それ娼妓のために人はただ僅に一撮の糧をのこすのみにいたる 又淫婦は人の尊き生命を求むるなり
For on account of a harlot a man is brought to a loaf of bread, but the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.
27 人は火を懐に抱きてその衣を焚れざらんや
Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned?
28 人は熱火を踏て其足を焚れざらんや
Or can one walk upon hot coals, and his feet not be scorched?
29 その隣の妻と姦淫をおこなふ者もかくあるべし 凡て之に捫る者は罪なしとせられず
So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever toucheth her shall not go unpunished.
30 竊む者もし饑しときに其饑を充さん爲にぬすめるならば人これを藐ぜじ
Men do not despise a thief, if he steal to satisfy his soul when he is hungry;
31 もし捕へられなばその七倍を償ひ其家の所有をことごとく出さざるべからず
But if he be found, he must restore sevenfold, he must give all the substance of his house.
32 婦と姦淫をおこなふ者は智慧なきなり 之を行ふ者はおのれの霊魂を亡し
He that committeth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding; he doeth it that would destroy his own soul.
33 傷と陵辱とをうけて其恥を雪ぐこと能はず
Wounds and dishonour shall he get, and his reproach shall not be wiped away.
34 妒忌その夫をして忿怒をもやさしむればその怨を報ゆるときかならず寛さじ
For jealousy is the rage of a man, and he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
35 いかなる贖物をも顧みず 衆多の饋物をなすともやはらがざるべし
He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.
