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1:1 以色列王大衛兒子所羅門的箴言: The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:
1:2 要使人曉得智慧和訓誨,分辨通達的言語, for attaining wisdom and discipline; for understanding words of insight; 1:3 使人處事領受智慧、仁義、公平、正直的訓誨, for acquiring a disciplined and prudent life, doing what is right and just and fair; 1:4 使愚人靈明,使少年人有知識和謀略, for giving prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the young-- 1:5 使智慧人聽見,增長學問,使聰明人得著智謀, let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance-- 1:6 使人明白箴言和譬喻,懂得智慧人的言詞和謎語。 for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise. 1:7 敬畏耶和華是知識的開端;愚妄人藐視智慧和訓誨。 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools 1:7 The Hebrew words rendered ((fool)) in Proverbs, and often elsewhere in the Old Testament, denote one who is morally deficient. despise wisdom and discipline. 1:8 我兒,要聽你父親的訓誨,不可離棄你母親的法則〔或譯:指教〕; Listen, my son, to your father's instruction and do not forsake your mother's teaching. 1:9 因為這要作你頭上的華冠,你項上的金鍊。 They will be a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. 1:10 我兒,惡人若引誘你,你不可隨從。 My son, if sinners entice you, do not give in to them. 1:11 他們若說:你與我們同去,我們要埋伏流人之血,要蹲伏害無罪之人; If they say, <<Come along with us; let's lie in wait for someone's blood, let's waylay some harmless soul; 1:12 我們好像陰間,把他們活活吞下;他們如同下坑的人,被我們囫圇吞了; let's swallow them alive, like the grave, 1:12 Hebrew ((Sheol)) and whole, like those who go down to the pit; 1:13 我們必得各樣寶物,將所擄來的,裝滿房屋; we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder; 1:14 你與我們大家同分,我們共用一個囊袋; throw in your lot with us, and we will share a common purse>>-- 1:15 我兒,不要與他們同行一道,禁止你腳走他們的路。 my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths; 1:16 因為,他們的腳奔跑行惡;他們急速流人的血, for their feet rush into sin, they are swift to shed blood. 1:17 好像飛鳥,網羅設在眼前仍不躲避。 How useless to spread a net in full view of all the birds! 1:18 這些人埋伏,是為自流己血;蹲伏,是為自害己命。 These men lie in wait for their own blood; they waylay only themselves! 1:19 凡貪戀財利的,所行之路都是如此;這貪戀之心乃奪去得財者之命。 Such is the end of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the lives of those who get it. 1:20 智慧在街市上呼喊,在寬闊處發聲, Wisdom calls aloud in the street, she raises her voice in the public squares; 1:21 在熱鬧街頭喊叫,在城門口,在城中發出言語, at the head of the noisy streets 1:21 Hebrew; Septuagint ((/ on the tops of the walls)) she cries out, in the gateways of the city she makes her speech: 1:22 說:你們愚昧人喜愛愚昧,褻慢人喜歡褻慢,愚頑人恨惡知識,要到幾時呢? <<How long will you simple ones 1:22 The Hebrew word rendered ((simple)) in Proverbs generally denotes one without moral direction and inclined to evil. love your simple ways? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge? 1:23 你們當因我的責備回轉;我要將我的靈澆灌你們,將我的話指示你們。 If you had responded to my rebuke, I would have poured out my heart to you and made my thoughts known to you. 1:24 我呼喚,你們不肯聽從;我伸手,無人理會; But since you rejected me when I called and no one gave heed when I stretched out my hand, 1:25 反輕棄我一切的勸戒,不肯受我的責備。 since you ignored all my advice and would not accept my rebuke, 1:26 你們遭災難,我就發笑;驚恐臨到你們,我必嗤笑。 I in turn will laugh at your disaster; I will mock when calamity overtakes you-- 1:27 驚恐臨到你們,好像狂風;災難來到,如同暴風;急難痛苦臨到你們身上。 when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when disaster sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when distress and trouble overwhelm you. 1:28 那時,你們必呼求我,我卻不答應,懇切地尋找我,卻尋不見。 <<Then they will call to me but I will not answer; they will look for me but will not find me. 1:29 因為,你們恨惡知識,不喜愛敬畏耶和華, Since they hated knowledge and did not choose to fear the LORD, 1:30 不聽我的勸戒,藐視我一切的責備, since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, 1:31 所以必吃自結的果子,充滿自設的計謀。 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes. 1:32 愚昧人背道,必殺己身;愚頑人安逸,必害己命。 For the waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them; 1:33 惟有聽從我的,必安然居住,得享安靜,不怕災禍。 but whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm.>> This is Alex Markley's PHPScripture v1.2.0, displaying a copy of Chinese Union Version Bible in XOOPS. 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始, 聖經文字部分由CCIM(網路基督使團)網站下載. 如欲修改經文請洽聖經公會. 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉(02月04日)
二月四日 「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處。」以賽亞書五八章14節 熟習航空的人告訴我們:他們初習的時候,常是逆風駕駛。逆風會把飛機抬得高些。這個祕訣,他們是從甚麼地方學來的呢?他們從鳥類那裏學來的。如果一隻鳥兒正飛著玩,牠就隨風而飛。如果遇見了危險,牠就立刻轉過身來,面向風飛;這樣,牠可以飛得高些。 人生的逆境,是神給你的逆風,它們能抬你到最高級的一屬天的生活去。這就是「耶和華要使你乘駕地的高處」的方法。讓我們作一個帶響弦的風箏,在神的風中越飄越高,同時發出最好聽的音樂——讚美——來以悅神耳。 你有沒有經歷過:夏日空氣熱悶的時候,有時竟連氣也會透不過來。但在西方的天邊,出現了一朵雲,接踵而至。暴風雨掩蓋了這世界給這世界帶來了無窮的舒適,空氣也澄清了,氣象為之一新,世界是改觀了。 人生也完全一樣的道理。當暴風雨來臨的時候,環境可能起了惡劣的變化,但它能發生澄清的作用,充滿了新的氣象,好像天堂的一角也被帶到地上來了。 ─選 障礙應該使我們歡唱。風之能發生曼妙的聲響,並不在海洋上暢行無阻的時候,而是在艱難地吹過層層枝葉交織的松樹林間,或是吹到「愛奧良」琴的弦上,起了阻抗作用的時候。在上面這些場合,風才發出有力和美麗的音韻。釋放你的靈魂,讓它橫掃生命的障礙,穿過痛苦的可佈森林,小至微細的磨折和煩惱,那麼你的靈魂,也會唱出它的歌聲了。 ─選 像一隻停飛的小鳥, 棲息在細細的樹梢, 歌唱時抖抖下垂, 我有翅膀,不必煩惱。
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(02月04日)
February 4 "I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth." (Isa. 58:14.) THOSE who fly through the air in airships tell us that one of the first rules they learn is to turn their ship toward the wind, and fly against it. The wind lifts the ship up to higher heights. Where did they learn that? They learned it from the birds. If a bird is flying for pleasure, it goes with the wind. But if the bird meets danger, it turns right around and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher; and it flies away towards the very sun. Sufferings are God's winds, His contrary winds, sometimes His strong winds. They are God's hurricanes, but, they take human life and lift it to higher levels and toward God's heavens. You have seen in the summer time a day when the atmosphere was so oppressive that you could hardly breathe? But a cloud appeared on the western horizon and that cloud grew larger and threw out rich blessing for the world. The storm rose, lightning flashed and thunder pealed. The storm covered the world, and the atmosphere was cleansed; new life was in the air, and the world was changed. Human life is worked out according to exactly the same principle. When the storm breaks the atmosphere is changed, clarified, filled with new life; and a part of heaven is brought down to earth. ─Selected. Obstacles ought to set us singing. The wind finds voice, not when rushing across the open sea, but when hindered by the outstretched arms of the pine trees, or broken by the fine strings of an Aeolian harp. Then it has songs of power and beauty. Set your freed soul sweeping across the obstacles of life, through grim forests of pain, against even the tiny hindrances and frets that love uses, and it, too, will find its singing voice. ─Selected. "Be like a bird that, halting in its flight, Rests on a bough too slight. And feeling it give way beneath him sings, Knowing he hath wings."
■ 永活之泉(02月04日)
二月四日 愛慕神 「夜間,我心中羨慕您。」以賽亞書廿六章9節 甚麼人是人在地上所能看見、能尋得、最重要、最偉大、最榮耀的東西呢?只有神自己。甚麼是人每天所需要而能作到的,又最重要、最美好、最榮耀的事呢?除了尋求、認識、愛慕,並讚美這位榮耀的神之外,再也沒有別的了。神是那麼的榮耀,但那些將自己獻給神、為神而活、讓祂的榮耀在心裡工作,而成為他的生命的人,也是極其榮耀的。 弟兄們!你有沒有學習每天去作那第一的、最偉大的事呢?沒有一件事比尋求這位神,並學習碰見祂、敬拜祂,為祂和祂的榮耀而活著,是更偉大的。每一個基督徒,真的看見了這一個,當藉著交通降服跟從神,並且以神為他生活的主要目的,在那時候,也就是他在基督徒生命的道路上更長進了。 請花時間來尋求這究竟是不是一個真理,是不是一個最高的智慧,是基督徒應該為著神而活的。─在生活中對神有正確的認識並用全心來愛祂。相信這不僅是非常的實在,而且神自己也極盼望,你能這樣與祂同活,祂願意答應你的禱告,使你能經歷這一個。 請自今天起從聖經中拿出一些話,用安靜的心,來對神說:「神阿,您是我的神,我要切切地尋求您,我渴想您;我的心切慕您。我要緊緊跟隨您。」(詩六十三1)「我一心尋您。」(詩一一2) 以極深的崇敬和像小孩一樣的盼望,重複這些話,直到這些話的精意和能力,進入你的心;並且等候神,直到你嘗著了與祂這樣相交的福份。當你這樣保持下去的時候,你就要學習存敬畏的心活在神面前,並盼望整天都繼續在這種情形裡。 「我曾耐性等候耶和華,他垂聽我的呼求。」(詩四十1)
■ 中文屬天日子(02月04日)
二月四日 人格支配力量的尊嚴 「原來基督的愛激勵我們。」哥林多後書五章14節 保羅說,他被基督的愛操縱著,箝制著,好像被箝在老虎箝裡一般。我們中沒有多的人知道被神的愛握住;都是被我們的經驗握住了。有一件事握住了保羅,直到他的眼界見不著別的東西,那就是神的愛。「基督的愛激勵我們」──當你聽見某男某女心中有這樣的音調,你絕不能錯認的,你準知道神的靈在那人裡面是進行裕如,毫無阻窒的。 當我們重生於神的靈,神就在我們裡面作見證,那見證的音調,理當是這樣。但是聖靈的洗禮,卻能永遠把這忘卻了,而我們會開始覺得耶穌說「你們可以給我作見證。」這句話的意思,不是見證耶穌所作的──那是一種初步的見證──卻是「給我作見證。」我們給祂作見證,就是把一切發生在我們身上的事情,當作發生在祂的身上。無論是稱讚或譴責,是逼迫,或欽仰,沒有人像這樣替耶穌基督忍受這些事,除非他受過耶穌基督人格的激勵。這是該當留意的,也是基督徒工人最難明白的。保羅說他被基督的愛握住;那是因為他行其所行的緣故。無論人批評他放蕩或拘謹,他卻不介意;他只為一件事活著,那就是勸人注意神的審判和基督的愛。像這樣徜徉於基督的愛中是生活成功的祕訣,將永留神的權能和聖潔的印象,不計自身的聖潔與否。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(02月04日)
二月四日 「我就常與你們同在,直到世界的末了。」馬太福音廿八章20節 主基督不是仍然釘在十字架上的主,祂乃是我們又真又活的神。 有一天,在派斯頓潘靠近愛丁堡的地方,我舉目往這曾為戰場的地方看了很久。有一回當戰事正危險之即,一方的首領因受傷而倒了下來。當他的部下看到他不支倒地,他們幾乎立刻夾腿逃離戰場。他們握著手榴彈的手雖然強壯,但卻不停地抖,突然之間,他們竟寸步難行。還好這個年老的首領強打精神,用他的手肘把自己撐起來說:「我沒死,我的孩子們,我在觀看我的同胞盡他們的責任。」 同樣情況,我們的救主在復活之後,也這麼對我們說。儘管我們無法看到祂,但是祂曾說:「我就常與你們同在,直到世界的末了。」注意,祂用「常」這個字來強調祂的同在,是不斷且恆常的。祂沒有用「將會與你們同在」,卻保證我們與祂的同在是繼續、永恆的。 不多時,我們將勝過一切衝突; 不多時,我們將贏得所有戰鬥; 然後,我們要揮舞我們勝利的雙手, 高唱不朽的詩歌, 我們歡樂之歌的歌詞將是── 靠著您,我已戰勝了一切。
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