Proverbs 23
1 When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
なんぢ侯たる者とともに坐して食ふときは 愼みて汝の前にある者の誰なるかを思へ
2 And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
汝もし食を嗜む者ならば汝の喉に刀をあてよ
3 Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
その珍饈を貪り食ふこと勿れ これ迷惑の食物なればなり
4 Labour not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
富を得んと思煩らふこと勿れ 自己の明哲を恃むこと勿れ
5 Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
なんぢ虚しきに歸すべき者に目をとむるか 富はかならず自ら翅を生じて鷲のごとく天に飛さらん
6 Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
惡目をする者の糧をくらふことなく その珍饈をむさぼりねがふことなかれ
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
そはその心に思ふごとくその人となりも亦しかればなり 彼なんぢに食へ飮めといふこといへどもその心は汝に眞実ならず
8 The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
汝つひにその食へる物を吐出すにいたり 且その出し懇懃の言もむなしくならん
9 Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
愚なる者の耳に語ること勿れ 彼なんぢが言の示す明哲を藐めん
10 Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
古き地界を移すことなかれ 孤子の畑を侵すことなかれ
11 For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
そはかれが贖者は強し 必ず汝に對らひて之が訴をのべん
12 Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
汝の心を教に用ゐ 汝の耳を知識の言に傾けよ
13 Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
子を懲すことを爲ざるなかれ 鞭をもて彼を打とも死ることあらじ
もし鞭をもて彼をうたばその霊魂を陰府より救ふことをえん (Sheol h7585)
15 My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
わが子よもし汝のこころ智からば我が心もまた歓び
16 Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
もし汝の口唇ただしき事をいはば我が腎腸も喜ぶべし
17 Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
なんぢ心に罪人をうらやむ勿れ ただ終日ヱホバを畏れよ
18 For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
そは必ず應報ありて汝の望は廃らざればなり
19 Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
わが子よ汝ききて智慧をえ かつ汝の心を道にかたぶけよ
20 Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
酒にふけり肉をたしむものと交ること勿れ
21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
それ酒にふける者と肉を嗜む者とは貧しくなり 睡眠を貪る者は敞れたる衣をきるにいたらん
22 Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
汝を生る父にきけ 汝の老たる母を軽んずる勿れ
23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
眞理を買へ これを售るなかれ 智慧と誡命と知識とまた然あれ
24 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
義き者の父は大によろこび 智慧ある子を生る者はこれがために樂しまん
25 Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
汝の父母を樂しませ 汝を生る者を喜ばせよ
26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
わが子よ汝の心を我にあたへ 汝の目にわが途を樂しめ
27 For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
それ妓婦は深き抗のごとく 淫婦は狭き井のごとし
28 She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
彼は盗賊のごとく人を窺ひ かつ世の人の中に悖れる者を増なり
29 Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
禍害ある者は誰ぞ 憂愁ある者は誰ぞ 争端をなす者は誰ぞ 煩慮ある者は誰ぞ 故なくして傷をうくる者は誰ぞ 赤目ある者は誰ぞ
30 They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
是すなはち酒に夜をふかすもの 往て混和せたる酒を味ふる者なり
31 Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
洒はあかく盃の中に泡だち滑かにくだる 汝これを見るなかれ
32 At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
是は終に蛇のごとく噬み蝮の如く刺すべし
33 your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
また汝の目は怪しきものを見 なんぢの心は諕言をいはん
34 Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
汝は海のなかに偃すもののごとく帆桅の上に偃すもののごとし
35 They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
汝いはん人われを撃ども我いたまず 我を拷けども我おぼえず 我さめなばまた酒を求めんと
