箴言 知恵の泉 26
1 誉が愚かな者にふさわしくないのは、夏に雪が降り、刈入れの時に雨が降るようなものだ。
Just [like] [SIM] [it is not appropriate for] snow [to fall] in summer time, or rain [to fall] at harvest time, it is not appropriate to praise/honor foolish people.
2 いわれのないのろいは、飛びまわるすずめや、飛びかけるつばめのようなもので、止まらない。
Like [SIM] birds that fly by [and do not alight/land on anything], if someone curses you, it cannot hurt you if you (do not deserve them/have not done to him what is wrong).
3 馬のためにはむちがあり、ろばのためにはくつわがあり、愚かな者の背のためにはつえがある。
It is necessary to whip a horse and to put a bridle on a donkey [to force them to go where we want them to go], and similarly [SIM] [it is often necessary to strike] foolish people with a stick [to cause them to do what is right].
4 愚かな者にその愚かさにしたがって答をするな、自分も彼と同じようにならないためだ。
If a foolish person asks a foolish question, [do not answer him], because [if you answer his question], you are just as foolish as he is.
5 愚かな者にその愚かさにしたがって答をせよ、彼が自分の目に自らを知恵ある者と見ないためだ。
If you give a foolish answer to someone who asks a foolish question, he will realize that he is (not very wise/foolish).
6 愚かな者に託して事を言い送る者は、自分の足を切り去り、身に害をうける。
Anyone who asks a foolish person to take a message to someone [is himself doing something as foolish as] cutting off his own feet or drinking poison.
7 あしなえの足は用がない、愚かな者の口には箴言もそれにひとしい。
A lame man cannot use his legs, and similarly [SIM] [it is useless for] a foolish person to speak [MTY] (proverbs/wise sayings).
8 誉を愚かな者に与えるのは、石を石投げにつなぐようだ。
Tying a stone in a sling [so that it cannot be thrown at a target] is [as foolish as] [SIM] honoring a foolish person.
9 愚かな者の口に箴言があるのは、酔った者が、とげのあるつえを手で振り上げるようだ。
If a drunk person waves some thorns/brambles with his hand, [he is not able to accomplish anything useful by doing that] (OR, [he does not feel it when a thorn sticks in his hand]); similarly, if foolish people speak [MTY] proverbs, [they do not help anyone who hears them].
10 通りがかりの愚か者や、酔った者を雇う者は、すべての人を傷つける射手のようだ。
A man who shoots arrows [to try] to wound everybody who is near [is foolish]; similarly, anyone who hires a foolish person [who passes by is very foolish].
11 犬が帰って来てその吐いた物を食べるように、愚かな者はその愚かさをくり返す。
A foolish person will foolishly do something stupid a second time; it is [like] [SIM] a dog returning to [eat] what it has vomited.
12 自分の目に自らを知恵ある者とする人を、あなたは見るか、彼よりもかえって愚かな人に望みがある。
[God] can help/bless foolish people more easily than he can help/bless people who are not wise [RHQ], but think that they are wise.
13 なまけ者は、「道にししがいる、ちまたにししがいる」という。
Lazy people [just stay inside their houses and do nothing]; [they keep] saying “[I think] there is a lion in the street!”
14 戸がちょうつがいによって回るように、なまけ者はその寝床で寝返りをする。
A door [continually] swings back and forth on its hinges [and does not go anywhere]; similarly [SIM], lazy people [just continually turn over] in their beds [and never do anything].
15 なまけ者は手を皿に入れても、それを口に持ってゆくことをいとう。
Some people are extremely lazy; they put their hand in a dish [to get some food] but do not [even] lift the food up to their mouths.
16 なまけ者は自分の目に、良く答えることのできる七人の者よりも、自らを知恵ありとする。
Lazy people think that they are wiser than seven/several people who can answer [others’ questions] with good sense.
17 自分に関係のない争いにたずさわる者は、通りすぎる犬の耳をとらえる者のようだ。
Anyone who (meddles/involves himself) in a quarrel that does not concern him is [as foolish as] [SIM] someone who tries to grab a passing dog by its ears.
Crazy people who shoot burning arrows to kill people
19 隣り人を欺いて、「わたしはただ戯れにした」という者は、燃え木または矢、または死を、投げつける気違いのようだ。
are as foolish as those who deceive someone else and [then] say, “I was only joking.”
20 たきぎがなければ火は消え、人のよしあしを言う者がなければ争いはやむ。
If there is no [more] firewood [to put on the fire], the fire will go out; similarly [SIM], if there are no people who (gossip/tell people things that are not true), quarreling will end.
21 おき火に炭をつぎ、火にたきぎをくべるように、争いを好む人は争いの火をおこす。
[Putting] charcoal on burning coals or [putting] wood on a fire [causes the fire to keep burning]; similarly, people who like to quarrel cause people to keep arguing.
22 人のよしあしをいう者の言葉はおいしい食物のようで、腹の奥にしみこむ。
People [enjoy listening to what gossips say about others just like] [SIM] they enjoy tasty food; they [enjoy listening to what gossips tell them like] they enjoy swallowing tasty food.
23 くちびるはなめらかであっても、心の悪いのは上ぐすりをかけた土の器のようだ。
People who say nice things when they are thinking about doing evil things are like a nice glaze/covering on a [cheap] clay pot.
24 憎む者はくちびるをもって自ら飾るけれども、心のうちには偽りをいだく。
Those who hate someone and are saying [MTY] something very different from what they are thinking are hypocrites; they are only planning [to harm that person].
25 彼が声をやわらげて語っても、信じてはならない。その心に七つの憎むべきものがあるからだ。
When they say nice things, do not believe them, because in their inner beings are many things that [Yahweh] hates.
26 たとい偽りをもってその憎しみをかくしても、彼の悪は会衆の中に現れる。
They try to deceive people to cause them to think that they do not hate [that person], but in a public meeting, the people will find out the evil things [that they have done].
27 穴を掘る者は自らその中に陥る、石をまろばしあげる者の上に、その石はまろびかえる。
Those who dig a deep pit [for other people to fall into] will fall into it themselves; rocks will roll down on those who start to cause rocks to roll down [to crush someone].
28 偽りの舌は自分が傷つけた者を憎み、へつらう口は滅びをきたらせる。
Those [MTY] who tell lies to others [really] hate them, and those who deceive [others] ruin them.
