Proverbs 24
1 Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;
なんぢ惡き人を羨むことなかれ 又これと偕に居らんことを願ふなかれ
2 for their hearts plot violence and their lips talk about mischief.
そはその心に暴虐をはかり その口唇に人を害ふことをいへばなり
3 Through wisdom a house is built; by understanding it is established;
家は智慧によりて建られ 明哲によりて堅くせられ
4 by knowledge the rooms are filled with all rare and beautiful treasure.
また室は知識によりて各種の貴く美しき寳にて充されん
5 A wise man has great power. A knowledgeable man increases strength,
智慧ある者は強し 知識ある人は力をます
6 for by wise guidance you wage your war, and victory is in many advisors.
汝よき謀計をもて戦闘をなせ 勝利は議者の多きによる
7 Wisdom is too high for a fool. He doesn’t open his mouth in the gate.
智慧は高くして愚なる者の及ぶところにあらず 愚なる者は門にて口を啓くことをえず
8 One who plots to do evil will be called a schemer.
惡をなさんと謀る者を邪曲なる者と稱ふ
9 The schemes of folly are sin. The mocker is detested by men.
愚なる者の謀るところは罪なり 嘲笑者は人に憎まる
10 If you falter in the time of trouble, your strength is small.
汝もし患難の日に氣を挫かば汝の力は弱し
11 Rescue those who are being led away to death! Indeed, hold back those who are staggering to the slaughter!
なんぢ死地に曳れゆく者を拯へ 滅亡によろめきゆく者をすくはざる勿れ
12 If you say, “Behold, we didn’t know this,” doesn’t he who weighs the hearts consider it? He who keeps your soul, doesn’t he know it? Shall he not render to every man according to his work?
汝われら之を知らずといふとも心をはかる者これを暁らざらんや 汝の霊魂をまもる者これを知ざらんや 彼は聲のおのおのの行爲によりて人に報ゆべし
13 My son, eat honey, for it is good, the droppings of the honeycomb, which are sweet to your taste;
わが子よ蜜を食へ 是は美ものなり また蜂のすの滴瀝を食へ 是はなんぢの口に甘し
14 so you shall know wisdom to be to your soul. If you have found it, then there will be a reward: Your hope will not be cut off.
智慧の汝の霊魂におけるも是の如しと知れ これを得ばかならず報いありて汝の望すたれじ
15 Don’t lay in wait, wicked man, against the habitation of the righteous. Don’t destroy his resting place;
惡者よ義者の家を窺ふことなかれ その安居所を攻ること勿れ
16 for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again, but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.
そは義者は七次たふるるともまた起く されど惡者は禍災によりて亡ぶ
17 Don’t rejoice when your enemy falls. Don’t let your heart be glad when he is overthrown,
汝の仇たふるるとき樂しむこと勿れ 彼の亡ぶるときこころに喜ぶことなかれ
18 lest Yahweh see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
恐くはヱホバこれを見て惡しとし その震怒を彼より離れしめたまはん
19 Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;
なんぢ惡者を怒ることなかれ 邪曲なる者を羨むなかれ
20 for there will be no reward to the evil man. The lamp of the wicked will be snuffed out.
それ惡者には後の善賚なし 邪曲なる爲の燈火は滅されん
21 My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious,
わが子よヱホバと王とを畏れよ 叛逆者に交ること勿れ
22 for their calamity will rise suddenly. Who knows what destruction may come from them both?
斯るものらの災渦は速におこる この兩者の滅亡はたれか知えんや
23 These also are sayings of the wise: To show partiality in judgment is not good.
是等もまた智慧ある者の箴言なり 偏り鞫するは善らず
24 He who says to the wicked, “You are righteous,” peoples will curse him, and nations will abhor him—
罪人に告て汝は義しといふものをは衆人これを詛ひ諸民これを惡まん
25 but it will go well with those who convict the guilty, and a rich blessing will come on them.
これを譴る者は恩をえん また福祉これにきたるべし
26 An honest answer is like a kiss on the lips.
ほどよき應答をなす者は口唇に接吻するなり
27 Prepare your work outside, and get your fields ready. Afterwards, build your house.
外にて汝の工をととのへ田圃にてこれを自己のためにそなへ 然るのち汝の家を建よ
28 Don’t be a witness against your neighbor without cause. Don’t deceive with your lips.
故なく汝の鄰に敵して證することなかれ 汝なんぞ口唇をもて欺くべけんや
29 Don’t say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will repay the man according to his work.”
彼の我に爲しし如く我も亦かれになすべし われ人の爲ししところに循ひてこれに報いんといふこと勿れ
30 I went by the field of the sluggard, by the vineyard of the man void of understanding.
われ曾て惰人の田圃と智慧なき人の葡萄園とをすぎて見しに
31 Behold, it was all grown over with thorns. Its surface was covered with nettles, and its stone wall was broken down.
荊棘あまねく生え薊その地面を掩ひ その石垣くづれゐたり
32 Then I saw, and considered well. I saw, and received instruction:
我これをみて心をとどめこれを観て教をえたり
33 a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep,
しばらく臥し 暫らく睡り 手を叉きて又しばらく休む
34 so your poverty will come as a robber and your want as an armed man.
さらば汝の貧窮は盗人のごとく汝の欠乏は兵士の如くきたるべし
