箴言 知恵の泉 7
1 我子よわが言をまもり我が誡命を汝の心にたくはへよ
My son, keep my words, and lay up my precepts with thee. Son,
2 我が誠命をまもりで生命をえよ 我法を守ること汝の眸子を守るが如くせよ
Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
3 これを汝の指にむすび これを汝の心の碑に銘せ
Bind it upon thy fingers, write it upon the tables of thy heart.
4 なんぢ智慧にむかひて汝はわが姉妹なりといひ 明理にむかひて汝はわが友なりといへ
Say to wisdom: Thou art my sister: and call prudence thy friend,
5 さらば汝をまもりて淫婦にまよはざらしめ 言をもて媚る娼妓にとほざからしめん
That she may keep thee from the woman that is not thine, and from the stranger who sweeteneth her words.
6 われ我室の牖により檑子よりのぞきて
For I look out of the window of my house through the lattice,
7 拙き者のうち幼弱者のうちに一人の智慧なき者あるを観たり
And I see little ones, I behold a foolish young man,
8 彼衢をすぎ婦の門にちかづき其家の路にゆき
Who passeth through the street by the corner, and goeth nigh the way of her house.
9 黄昏に半宵に夜半に黒暗の中にあるけり
In the dark, when it grows late, in the darkness and obscurity of the night,
10 時に娼妓の衣を着たる狡らなる婦かれにあふ
And behold a woman meeteth him in harlot’s attire prepared to deceive souls; talkative and wandering,
11 この婦は譁しくしてつつしみなく 其足は家に止らず
Not bearing to be quiet, not able to abide still at home,
12 あるときは衢にあり 或時はひろばにあり すみずみにたちて人をうかがふ
Now abroad, now in the streets, now lying in wait near the corners.
13 この婦かれをひきて接吻し恥しらぬ面をもていひけるは
And catching the young man, she kisseth him, and with an impudent face, flattereth, saying:
14 われ酬恩祭を献げ今日すでにわが誓願を償せり
I vowed victims for prosperity, this day I have paid my vows.
15 これによりて我なんぢを迎へんとていで 汝の面をたづねて汝に逢へり
Therefore I am come out to meet thee, desirous to see thee, and I have found thee.
16 わが榻には美しき褥およびエジプトの文枲をしき
I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.
17 沒薬蘆薈桂皮をもて我が榻にそそげり
I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.
18 來れわれら詰朝まで情をつくし愛をかよはして相なぐさめん
Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.
19 そは夫は家にあらず遠く旅立して
For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.
20 手に金嚢をとれり 望月ならでは家に歸らじと
He took with him a bag of money: he mill return home the day of the full moon.
21 多の婉言をもて惑し口唇の諂媚をもて誘へ
She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.
22 わかき人ただちにこれに隨へり あたかも牛の宰地にゆくが如く 愚なる者の桎梏をかけらるる爲にゆくが如し
Immediately he followeth her as an ox led to be a victim, and as a lamb playing the wanton, and not knowing that he is drawn like a fool to bonds,
23 遂には矢その肝を刺さん 烏の速かに羅にいりてその生命を喪ふに至るを知ざるがごとし
Till the arrow pierce his liver: as if a bird should make haste to the snare, and knoweth not that his life is in danger.
24 小子等よいま我にきけ 我が口の言に耳を傾けよ
Now therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.
25 なんぢの心を淫婦の道にかたむくること勿れ またこれが徑に迷ふこと勿れ
Let not thy mind be drawn away in her ways: neither be thou deceived with her paths.
26 そは彼は多の人を傷つけて仆せり 彼に殺されたる者ぞ多かる
For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.
