箴言 23	Proverbs 23
箴言 23:1 ^ 你若與官長坐席、要留意在你面前的是誰。	Proverbs 23:1 ^ When you take your seat at the feast with a ruler, give thought with care to what is before you;
箴言 23:2 ^ 你若是貪食的、就當拿刀放在喉嚨上。	Proverbs 23:2 ^ And put a knife to your throat, if you have a strong desire for food.
箴言 23:3 ^ 不可貪戀他的美食、因為是哄人的食物。	Proverbs 23:3 ^ Have no desire for his delicate food, for it is the bread of deceit.
箴言 23:4 ^ 不要勞碌求富、休仗自己的聰明。	Proverbs 23:4 ^ Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.
箴言 23:5 ^ 你豈要定睛在虛無的錢財上麼．因錢財必長翅膀、如鷹向天飛去。	Proverbs 23:5 ^ Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
箴言 23:6 ^ 不要喫惡眼人的飯、也不要貪他的美味．	Proverbs 23:6 ^ Do not take the food of him who has an evil eye, or have any desire for his delicate meat:
箴言 23:7 ^ 因為他心怎樣思量、他為人就是怎樣．他雖對你說、請喫、請喝、他的心卻與你相背。	Proverbs 23:7 ^ For as the thoughts of his heart are, so is he: Take food and drink, he says to you; but his heart is not with you.
箴言 23:8 ^ 你所喫的那點食物、必吐出來．你所說的甘美言語、也必落空。	Proverbs 23:8 ^ The food which you have taken will come up again, and your pleasing words will be wasted.
箴言 23:9 ^ 你不要說話給愚昧人聽．因他必藐視你智慧的言語。	Proverbs 23:9 ^ Say nothing in the hearing of a foolish man, for he will put no value on the wisdom of your words.
箴言 23:10 ^ 不可挪移古時的地界．也不可侵入孤兒的田地。	Proverbs 23:10 ^ Do not let the landmark of the widow be moved, and do not go into the fields of those who have no father;
箴言 23:11 ^ 因他們的救贖主、大有能力．他必向你為他們辨屈。	Proverbs 23:11 ^ For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.
箴言 23:12 ^ 你要留心領受訓誨。側耳聽從知識的言語。	Proverbs 23:12 ^ Give your heart to teaching, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
箴言 23:13 ^ 不可不管教孩童、你用杖打他、他必不至於死。	Proverbs 23:13 ^ Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.
箴言 23:14 ^ 你要用杖打他、就可以救他的靈魂免下陰間。	Proverbs 23:14 ^ Give him blows with the rod, and keep his soul safe from the underworld.
箴言 23:15 ^ 我兒、你心若存智慧、我的心也甚歡喜。	Proverbs 23:15 ^ My son, if your heart becomes wise, I, even I, will be glad in heart;
箴言 23:16 ^ 你的嘴若說正直話、我的心腸也必快樂。	Proverbs 23:16 ^ And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.
箴言 23:17 ^ 你心中不要嫉妒罪人．只要終日敬畏耶和華。	Proverbs 23:17 ^ Have no envy of sinners in your heart, but keep in the fear of the Lord all through the day;
箴言 23:18 ^ 因為至終必有善報．你的指望也不至斷絕。	Proverbs 23:18 ^ For without doubt there is a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
箴言 23:19 ^ 我兒、你當聽、當存智慧、好在正道上引導你的心。	Proverbs 23:19 ^ Give ear, my son, and be wise, guiding your heart in the right way.
箴言 23:20 ^ 好飲酒的、好喫肉的、不要與他們來往。	Proverbs 23:20 ^ Do not be among those who give themselves to wine-drinking, or among those who make themselves full with meat:
箴言 23:21 ^ 因為好酒貪食的、必致貧窮．好睡覺的、必穿破爛衣服。	Proverbs 23:21 ^ For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.
箴言 23:22 ^ 你要聽從生你的父親．你母親老了、也不可藐視他。	Proverbs 23:22 ^ Give ear to your father whose child you are, and do not keep honour from your mother when she is old.
箴言 23:23 ^ 你當買真理．就是智慧、訓誨、和聰明、也都不可賣。	Proverbs 23:23 ^ Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
箴言 23:24 ^ 義人的父親、必大得快樂．人生智慧的兒子、必因他歡喜。	Proverbs 23:24 ^ The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.
箴言 23:25 ^ 你要使父母歡喜．使生你的快樂。	Proverbs 23:25 ^ Let your father and your mother be glad, let her who gave you birth have joy.
箴言 23:26 ^ 我兒、要將你的心歸我．你的眼目、也要喜悅我的道路。	Proverbs 23:26 ^ My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes take delight in my ways.
箴言 23:27 ^ 妓女是深坑．外女是窄阱．	Proverbs 23:27 ^ For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.
箴言 23:28 ^ 他埋伏好像強盜、他使人中多有奸詐的。	Proverbs 23:28 ^ Yes, she is waiting secretly like a beast for its food, and deceit by her is increased among men.
箴言 23:29 ^ 誰有禍患、誰有憂愁、誰有爭鬥、誰有哀歎、〔或作怨言〕誰無故受傷、誰眼目紅赤、	Proverbs 23:29 ^ Who says, Oh! who says, Ah! who has violent arguments, who has grief, who has wounds without cause, whose eyes are dark?
箴言 23:30 ^ 就是那流連飲酒、常去尋找調和酒的人。	Proverbs 23:30 ^ Those who are seated late over the wine: those who go looking for mixed wine.
箴言 23:31 ^ 酒發紅、在杯中閃爍、你不可觀看、雖然下咽舒暢、終久是咬你如蛇、刺你如毒蛇。	Proverbs 23:31 ^ Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:
箴言 23:32 ^ 見上節	Proverbs 23:32 ^ In the end, its bite is like that of a snake, its wound like the wound of a poison-snake.
箴言 23:33 ^ 你眼必看見異怪的事。〔異怪的事或作淫婦〕你心必發出乖謬的話．	Proverbs 23:33 ^ Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.
箴言 23:34 ^ 你必像躺在海中、或像臥在桅杆上．	Proverbs 23:34 ^ Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.
箴言 23:35 ^ 你必說、人打我我卻未受傷、人鞭打我我竟不覺得、我幾時清醒、我仍去尋酒。	Proverbs 23:35 ^ They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.