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* 箴言的价值
* 箴1:1 以色列王大卫儿子所罗门的箴言：
* 箴言的价值
* 箴1:1 以色列王大卫儿子所罗门的箴言：
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*The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
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* 箴1:2 要使人晓得智慧和训诲，分辨通达的言语，
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*To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
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* 箴1:3 使人处事领受智慧、仁义、公平、正直的训诲，
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*To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
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* 箴1:4 使愚人灵明，使少年人有知识和谋略，
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*To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
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* 箴1:5 使智慧人听见，增长学问，使聪明人得着智谋，
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*A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
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* 箴1:6 使人明白箴言和譬喻，懂得智慧人的言词和谜语。
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*To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
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* 给年青人的忠告
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* 箴1:7 敬畏耶和华是知识的开端；愚妄人藐视智慧和训诲。
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*The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
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* 箴1:8 我儿，要听你父亲的训诲，不可离弃你母亲的法则（或作：指教）；
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*My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
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* 箴1:9 因为这要作你头上的华冠，你项上的金链。
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*For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
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* 箴1:10 我儿，恶人若引诱你，你不可随从。
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*My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
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* 箴1:11 他们若说：你与我们同去，我们要埋伏流人之血，要蹲伏害无罪之人；
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*If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
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* 箴1:12 我们好像阴间，把他们活活吞下；他们如同下坑的人，被我们囫囵吞了；
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*Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
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* 箴1:13 我们必得各样宝物，将所掳来的，装满房屋；
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*We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
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* 箴1:14 你与我们大家同分，我们共用一个囊袋；
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*Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
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* 箴1:15 我儿，不要与他们同行一道，禁止你脚走他们的路。
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*My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
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* 箴1:16 因为，他们的脚奔跑行恶；他们急速流人的血，
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*For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
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* 箴1:17 好像飞鸟，网罗设在眼前仍不躲避。
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*Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
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* 箴1:18 这些人埋伏，是为自流己血；蹲伏，是为自害己命。
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*And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
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* 箴1:19 凡贪恋财利的，所行之路都是如此；这贪恋之心乃夺去得财者之命。
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*So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
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* 智慧呼唤人
* 箴1:20 智慧在街市上呼喊，在宽阔处发声，
* 箴1:20 智慧在街市上呼喊，在宽阔处发声，
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*Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
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* 箴1:21 在热闹街头喊叫，在城门口，在城中发出言语，
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*She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
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* 箴1:22 说：你们愚昧人喜爱愚昧，亵慢人喜欢亵慢，愚顽人恨恶知识，要到几时呢？
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*How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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* 箴1:23 你们当因我的责备回转；我要将我的灵浇灌你们，将我的话指示你们。
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*Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you.
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* 箴1:24 我呼唤，你们不肯听从；我伸手，无人理会；
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*Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
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* 箴1:25 反轻弃我一切的劝戒，不肯受我的责备。
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*But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
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* 箴1:26 你们遭灾难，我就发笑；惊恐临到你们，我必嗤笑。
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*I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
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* 箴1:27 惊恐临到你们，好像狂风；灾难来到，如同暴风；急难痛苦临到你们身上。
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*When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
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* 箴1:28 那时，你们必呼求我，我却不答应，恳切的寻找我，却寻不见。
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*Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
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* 箴1:29 因为，你们恨恶知识，不喜爱敬畏耶和华，
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*For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
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* 箴1:30 不听我的劝戒，藐视我一切的责备，
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*They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
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* 箴1:31 所以必吃自结的果子，充满自设的计谋。
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*Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
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* 箴1:32 愚昧人背道，必杀己身；愚顽人安逸，必害己命。
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*For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
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* 箴1:33 惟有听从我的，必安然居住，得享安静，不怕灾祸。
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*But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.