Proverbs 8
1 Doesn’t wisdom cry out? Doesn’t understanding raise her voice?
智慧は呼はらざるか 聰明は聲を出さざるか
2 On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
彼は路のほとりの高處また街衢のなかに立ち
3 Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the entry doors, she cries aloud:
邑のもろもろの門 邑の口および門々の入口にて呼はりいふ
4 “I call to you men! I send my voice to the sons of mankind.
人々よわれ汝をよび 我が聲をもて人の子等をよぶ
5 You simple, understand prudence! You fools, be of an understanding heart!
拙き者よなんぢら聰明に明かなれ 愚なる者よ汝ら明かなる心を得よ
6 Hear, for I will speak excellent things. The opening of my lips is for right things.
汝きけ われ善事をかたらん わが口唇をひらきて正事をいださん
7 For my mouth speaks truth. Wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
我が口は眞實を述べ わが口唇はあしき事を憎むなり
8 All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
わが口の言はみな義し そのうちに虚偽と奸邪とあることなし
9 They are all plain to him who understands, right to those who find knowledge.
是みな智者の明かにするところ 知識をうる者の正とするところなり
10 Receive my instruction rather than silver, knowledge rather than choice gold.
なんぢら銀をうくるよりは我が敎をうけよ 精金よりもむしろ知識をえよ
11 For wisdom is better than rubies. All the things that may be desired can’t be compared to it.
それ智慧は眞珠に愈れり 凡の寳も之に比ぶるに足らず
12 “I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling. Find out knowledge and discretion.
われ智慧は聰明をすみかとし 知識と謹愼にいたる
13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
ヱホバを畏るるとは惡を憎むことなり 我は傲慢と驕奢 惡道と虚偽の口とを憎む
14 Counsel and sound knowledge are mine. I have understanding and power.
謀略と聰明は我にあり 我は了知なり 我は能力あり
15 By me kings reign, and princes decree justice.
我に由て王者は政をなし 君たる者は義しき律をたて
16 By me princes rule, nobles, and all the righteous rulers of the earth.
我によりて主たる者および牧伯たちなど凡て地の審判人は世ををさむ
17 I love those who love me. Those who seek me diligently will find me.
われを愛する者は我これを愛す 我を切に求むるものは我に遇ん
18 With me are riches, honour, enduring wealth, and prosperity.
富と榮とは我にあり 貴き寳と公義とも亦然り
19 My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
わが果は金よりも精金よりも愈り わが利は精銀よりもよし
20 I walk in the way of righteousness, in the middle of the paths of justice,
我は義しき道にあゆみ 公平なる路徑のなかを行む
21 that I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
これ我を愛する者に貨財をえさせ 又その庫を充しめん爲なり
22 “The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his work, before his deeds of old.
ヱホバいにしへ其御わざをなしそめたまへる前に その道の始として我をつくりたまひき
23 I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth existed.
永遠より元始より地の有ざりし前より我は立られ
24 When there were no depths, I was born, when there were no springs abounding with water.
いまだ海洋あらず いまだ大なるみづの泉あらざりしとき我すでに生れ
25 Before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was born;
山いまださだめられず 陵いまだ有ざりし前に我すでに生れたり
26 while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
即ち神いまだ地をも野をも地の塵の根元をも造り給はざりし時なり
27 When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle on the surface of the deep,
かれ天をつくり海の面に穹蒼を張たまひしとき我かしこに在りき
28 when he established the clouds above, when the springs of the deep became strong,
彼うへに雲氣をかたく定め 淵の泉をつよくならしめ
29 when he gave to the sea its boundary, that the waters should not violate his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
海にその限界をたて 水をしてその岸を踰えざらしめ また地の基を定めたまへるとき
30 then I was the craftsman by his side. I was a delight day by day, always rejoicing before him,
我はその傍にありて創造者となり 日々に欣び恒にその前に樂み
31 rejoicing in his whole world. My delight was with the sons of men.
その地にて樂み又世の人を喜べり
32 “Now therefore, my sons, listen to me, for blessed are those who keep my ways.
されば小子等よ いま我にきけ わが道をまもる者は福ひなり
33 Hear instruction, and be wise. Don’t refuse it.
敎をききて智慧をえよ 之を棄ることなかれ
34 Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at my door posts.
凡そ我にきき 日々わが門の傍にまち わが戸口の柱のわきにたつ人は福ひなり
35 For whoever finds me finds life, and will obtain favour from the LORD.
そは我を得る者は生命をえ ヱホバより恩寵を獲ればなり
36 But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.”
我を失ふものは自己の生命を害ふ すべて我を惡むものは死を愛するなり
