第23章
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* 第 23 章
* 箴23:1 你若与官长坐席，要留意在你面前的是谁。
* 箴23:1 你若与官长坐席，要留意在你面前的是谁。
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*When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
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* 箴23:2 你若是贪食的，就当拿刀放在喉咙上。
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*And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
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* 箴23:3 不可贪恋他的美食，因为是哄人的食物。
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*Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
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* 箴23:4 不要劳碌求富，休仗自己的聪明。
§8
*Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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* 箴23:5 你岂要定睛在虚无的钱财上吗？因钱财必长翅膀，如鹰向天飞去。
§10
*Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
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* 箴23:6 不要吃恶眼人的饭，也不要贪他的美味；
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*Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
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* 箴23:7 因为他心怎样思量，他为人就是怎样。他虽对你说，请吃，请喝，他的心却与你相背。
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*For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
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* 箴23:8 你所吃的那点食物必吐出来；你所说的甘美言语也必落空。
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*The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
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* 箴23:9 你不要说话给愚昧人听，因他必藐视你智慧的言语。
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*Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
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* 箴23:10 不可挪移古时的地界，也不可侵入孤儿的田地；
§20
*Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
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* 箴23:11 因他们的救赎主大有能力，他必向你为他们辨屈。
§22
*For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
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* 箴23:12 你要留心领受训诲，侧耳听从知识的言语。
§24
*Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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* 箴23:13 不可不管教孩童；你用杖打他，他必不至于死。
§26
*Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
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* 箴23:14 你要用杖打他，就可以救他的灵魂免下阴间。
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*Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
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* 箴23:15 我儿，你心若存智慧，我的心也甚欢喜。
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*My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
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* 箴23:16 你的嘴若说正直话，我的心肠也必快乐。
§32
*Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
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* 箴23:17 你心中不要嫉妒罪人，只要终日敬畏耶和华；
§34
*Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
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* 箴23:18 因为至终必有善报，你的指望也不至断绝。
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*For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.
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* 箴23:19 我儿，你当听，当存智慧，好在正道上引导你的心。
§38
*Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
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* 箴23:20 好饮酒的，好吃肉的，不要与他们来往；
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*Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
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* 箴23:21 因为好酒贪食的，必至贫穷；好睡觉的，必穿破烂衣服。
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*For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
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* 箴23:22 你要听从生你的父亲；你母亲老了，也不可藐视他。
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*Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
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* 箴23:23 你当买真理；就是智慧、训诲，和聪明，也都不可卖。
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*Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
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* 箴23:24 义人的父亲必大得快乐；人生智慧的儿子，必因他欢喜。
§48
*The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
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* 箴23:25 你要使父母欢喜，使生你的快乐。
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*Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
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* 箴23:26 我儿，要将你的心归我；你的眼目也要喜悦我的道路。
§52
*My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
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* 箴23:27 妓女是深坑；外女是窄阱。
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*For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
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* 箴23:28 她埋伏好像强盗；她使人中多有奸诈的。
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*She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men.
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* 箴23:29 谁有祸患？谁有忧愁？谁有争斗？谁有哀叹（或作：怨言）？谁无故受伤？谁眼目红赤？
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*Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
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* 箴23:30 就是那流连饮酒、常去寻找调和酒的人。
§60
*They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
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* 箴23:31 酒发红，在杯中闪烁，你不可观看，虽然下咽舒畅，终久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。
§62
*Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
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* 箴23:32 －
§64
*At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
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* 箴23:33 你眼必看见异怪的事（异怪的事或作：淫妇）；你心必发出乖谬的话。
§66
*Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
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* 箴23:34 你必像躺在海中，或像卧在桅杆上。
§68
*Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
§69
* 箴23:35 你必说：人打我，我却未受伤；人鞭打我，我竟不觉得。我几时清醒，我仍去寻酒。
§70
*They have stricken me, shalt thou 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.