< 箴言 知恵の泉 8 >
1 知恵は呼ばわらないのか、悟りは声をあげないのか。
It is as if wisdom, with great understanding [of many things], is calling [PRS] out [to people].
2 これは道のほとりの高い所の頂、また、ちまたの中に立ち、
Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.
3 町の入口にあるもろもろの門のかたわら、正門の入口で呼ばわって言う、
[Wisdom also stands] at the city gates and shouts loudly,
4 「人々よ、わたしはあなたがたに呼ばわり、声をあげて人の子らを呼ぶ。
“I am calling to everyone! I am shouting loudly to all people!
5 思慮のない者よ、悟りを得よ、愚かな者よ、知恵を得よ。
You people who do not know how to do things that are smart to do, get sound judgment; you foolish people, get good understanding!
6 聞け、わたしは高貴な事を語り、わがくちびるは正しい事を語り出す。
Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.
7 わが口は真実を述べ、わがくちびるは悪しき事を憎む。
I speak what is true; I detest speaking [MTY] what is false/deceptive.
8 わが口の言葉はみな正しい、そのうちに偽りと、よこしまはない。
Everything that I say is honest; there is nothing that I say that deceives [people].
9 これはみな、さとき者の明らかにするところ、知識を得る者の正しとするところである。
My words are clear to those who have good sense; those who are wise know that what I say is right.
10 あなたがたは銀を受けるよりも、わたしの教を受けよ、精金よりも、むしろ知識を得よ。
[If someone offers you the kind of teaching I give] or offers you silver, choose my teaching. [If he offers to show you how to be wise] or offers you gold, choose to know how to be wise,
11 知恵は宝石にまさり、あなたがたの望むすべての物は、これと比べるにたりない。
because wisdom is more valuable than jewels. Nothing that you desire [is as valuable] as being wise.
12 知恵であるわたしは悟りをすみかとし、知識と慎みとをもつ。
I, wisdom, and understanding of what is smart to do, cannot be separated. We are like two people who live in the same house. I know how to be wise and how to make smart decisions.
13 主を恐れるとは悪を憎むことである。わたしは高ぶりと、おごりと、悪しき道と、偽りの言葉とを憎む。
[All the people] who revere Yahweh hate evil. I, wisdom, hate [people who are] proud and [people] who think they are more important [than others]. I hate [people who] behave in an evil way and those who say things to deceive [others].
14 計りごとと、確かな知恵とは、わたしにある、わたしには悟りがあり、わたしには力がある。
I give [people] good advice and I enable them to do things that are wise. I understand how things really are, and I am strong.
15 わたしによって、王たる者は世を治め、君たる者は正しい定めを立てる。
When kings are wise, they rule [well]; and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just/fair.
16 わたしによって、主たる者は支配し、つかさたる者は地を治める。
Rulers govern their people with the help of me, wisdom, and those who have authority decide things fairly/just with my help.
17 わたしは、わたしを愛する者を愛する、わたしをせつに求める者は、わたしに出会う。
I, [wisdom], love [all] those who love me, and [all] those who truly seek me [will] find me.
18 富と誉とはわたしにあり、すぐれた宝と繁栄もまたそうである。
I enable [people] to become rich and to be honored; [I enable them to have] wealth that will last and to be successful.
19 わたしの実は金よりも精金よりも良く、わたしの産物は精銀にまさる。
What I can give people is more valuable than fine/pure gold and the best silver.
I always do what is righteous and just/fair.
21 わたしを愛する者に宝を得させ、またその倉を満ちさせる。
I give wealth to those who love me; I fill their houses with valuable things.
22 主が昔そのわざをなし始められるとき、そのわざの初めとして、わたしを造られた。
Yahweh created me, [wisdom], when he began [to create the world]; he created me [to do my work] before he created anything else.
23 いにしえ、地のなかった時、初めに、わたしは立てられた。
He appointed me long ago, before he created the earth.
24 まだ海もなく、また大いなる水の泉もなかった時、わたしはすでに生れ、
I was born before the oceans were [created], when there were no springs from which water flowed.
25 山もまだ定められず、丘もまだなかった時、わたしはすでに生れた。
I was born before the hills and mountains were formed;
26 すなわち神がまだ地をも野をも、地のちりのもとをも造られなかった時である。
[I, wisdom], was born before Yahweh made the earth, before he made the fields and the soil on the earth.
27 彼が天を造り、海のおもてに、大空を張られたとき、わたしはそこにあった。
I was there when Yahweh put the sky in place, when he marked the place [in the distance] where the sky and the oceans [seem to] come together.
28 彼が上に空を堅く立たせ、淵の泉をつよく定め、
I was there when Yahweh put the clouds above [the earth] and when he caused the water that is inside the earth to be secure.
29 海にその限界をたて、水にその岸を越えないようにし、また地の基を定められたとき、
I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas, so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries, and when he put down the foundations which support the earth.
30 わたしは、そのかたわらにあって、名匠となり、日々に喜び、常にその前に楽しみ、
I was at the side of Yahweh, the master worker (OR, as though I was his child). I caused him to be happy every day, and I was always rejoicing when I was with him.
I was delighted with the world that he created; I was happy with the people whom he created, too.
32 それゆえ、子供らよ、今わたしの言うことを聞け、わたしの道を守る者はさいわいである。
So, [you people who are like] my sons, listen to me. [I am] pleased with [all] those who obey my teachings.
33 教訓を聞いて、知恵を得よ、これを捨ててはならない。
Listen [carefully] to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
34 わたしの言うことを聞き、日々わたしの門のかたわらでうかがい、わたしの戸口の柱のわきで待つ人はさいわいである。
[I am] pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting [for me to come out].
35 それは、わたしを得る者は命を得、主から恵みを得るからである。
Those who find me will have [a long] life, and Yahweh [will] be pleased with them.
36 わたしを失う者は自分の命をそこなう、すべてわたしを憎む者は死を愛する者である」。
But those who stray away from me [just] harm themselves. All those who hate me, [it is as though] [IRO] they are loving death.”