< 箴言 知恵の泉 2 >

1 我が子よ汝もし我が言をうけ 我誡命を汝のこころに蔵め
My son, if thou receivest my words, and layest up my commandments with thee,
2 斯て汝の耳を智慧に傾け汝の心をさとりにむけ
so that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom [and] thou apply thy heart to understanding;
3 もし知識を呼求め聡明をえんと汝の聲をあげ
yea, if thou criest after discernment [and] liftest up thy voice to understanding;
4 銀の如くこれを探り 秘れたる寳の如くこれを尋ねば
if thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hidden treasures:
5 汝ヱホバを畏るることを暁り 神を知ることを得べし
then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, and find the knowledge of God.
6 そはヱホバは智慧をあたへ 知識と聡明とそのロより出づればなり
For Jehovah giveth wisdom; out of his mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.
7 かれは義人のために聡明をたくはへ 直く行む者の盾となる
He layeth up sound wisdom for the upright; [he] is a shield to them that walk in integrity;
8 そは公平の途をたもち その聖徒の途すぢを守りたまへばなり
guarding the paths of just judgment and keeping the way of his godly ones.
9 斯て汝はつひに公義と公平と正直と一切の善道を暁らん
Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgment and equity: every good path.
10 すなはち智慧なんぢの心にいり 知識なんぢの霊魂に樂しからん
When wisdom entereth into thy heart and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul,
11 謹愼なんぢを守り 聡明なんぢをたもちて
discretion shall keep thee, understanding shall preserve thee:
12 惡き途よりずくひ虚偽をかたる者より救はん
To deliver thee from the way of evil, from the man that speaketh froward things;
13 彼等は直き途をはなれて幽暗き路に行み
[from those] who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
14 惡を行ふを樂しみ 惡者のいつはりを悦び
who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of evil;
15 その途はまがり その行爲は邪曲なり
whose paths are crooked, and who are perverted in their course:
16 聡明はまた汝を妓女より救ひ 言をもて諂ふ婦より救はん
To deliver thee from the strange woman, from the stranger who flattereth with her words;
17 彼はわかき時の侶をすて その神に契約せしことを忘るるなり
who forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the covenant of her God;
18 その家は死に下り その途は陰府に赴く
— for her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the dead;
19 凡てかれにゆく者は歸らず また生命の途に達らざるなり
none that go unto her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
20 聡明汝をたもちてよき途に行ませ 義人の途を守らしめん
— that thou mayest walk in the way of the good, and keep the paths of the righteous.
21 そは義人は地にながらへをり 完全者は地に止らん
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it;
22 されど惡者は地より亡され悸逆者は地より抜さらるべし
but the wicked shall be cut off from the land, and the unfaithful shall be plucked up out of it.

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