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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.>> 本模組中文化由長島基督福音教會的Jack起始。多次經本人修改,2025年11月由AI協助更改加入朗讀功能,2026年加入搜尋「中、英」字皆可,顯示「黃底紅字」歡迎大家使用!! 荒漠甘泉五合一■ 中文荒漠甘泉(01月05日)
一月五日 「耶和華阿,惟有您能幫助……」歷代志下十四章11節 讓我們提醒神,叫祂負完全的責任。「惟有您能幫助……」。攻擊亞撒的有士兵百萬、戰車三百。亞撒和猶太人要抵擋古實王的大軍似乎是不可能的一回事。沒有聯盟軍隊去援助他;所以,他惟一的盼望是神。或許你也有這般可怕的難處逼你放棄你平時所有的依據,而專一投靠全能的神。 亞撒的信心看見耶和華站在那耀武揚威的謝拉和毫無力量的自己中間。他並沒有錯誤。我們看見古實人果然敗在耶和華和他軍隊面前,所以猶太人只要跟在後面收集掠物就是了。我們的神是萬軍之耶和華,祂能隨時召集援軍來拯救祂的子民。相信祂站在你和你的難處中間,無論甚麼困難都會在祂面前逃跑,如雲在疾風面前被吹散一般。 ─梅爾 富堡壘碎成瓦礫, 正是你無所依恃 除了神以外,一無可靠, 這正是信主之時。 在你我所行這條路口, 信心比眼見更可依仗, 雖然茫茫夜色黑暗, 信是信心能放光亮。 亞伯拉罕信神,對眼見說:「退去!」對自然的定律說:「不要作聲!」對疑懼的心說:「閉口,你這謊言的誘惑者!」他信神。 ─派克約瑟
■ 英文荒漠甘泉(01月05日)
January 5 "Lord, there is none beside thee to help."(2 Chron. 14:11, R. V.) REMIND God of His entire responsibility. "There is none beside thee to help." The odds against Asa were enormous. There was a million of men in arms against him, besides three hundred chariots. It seemed impossible to hold his own against that vast multitude. There were no allies who would come to his help; his only hope, therefore, was in God. It may be that your difficulties have been allowed to come to so alarming a pitch that you may be compelled to renounce all creature aid, to which in lesser trials you have had recourse, and cast yourself back on your Almighty Friend. Put God between yourself and the foe. To Asa's faith, Jehovah seemed to stand between the might of Zerah and himself, as one who had no strength. Nor was he mistaken. We are told that the Ethiopians were destroyed before the Lord and before His host, as though celestial combatants flung themselves against the foe in Israel's behalf, and put the large host to rout, so that Israel had only to follow up and gather the spoil. Our God is Jehovah of hosts, who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to aid His people. Believe that He is there between you and your difficulty, and what baffles you will flee before Him, as clouds before the gale. ─F. B. Meyer. "When nothing whereon to lean remains, When strongholds crumble to dust; When nothing is sure but that God still reigns, That is just the time to trust. "Tis better to walk by faith than sight, In this path of yours and mine; And the pitch-black night, when there's no outer light Is the time for faith to shine." Abraham believed God, and said to sight, "Stand back!" and to the laws of nature, "Hold your peace!" and to a misgiving heart, "Silence, thou lying tempter!" He believed God. ─Joseph Parker.
■ 永活之泉(01月05日)
一月五日 信心 「只要信。」馬可福音五章36節 這裡有一個極重要的功課,就是當我們單獨在內室裡獻上我們祈求的時候,我們必須全然信靠神的愛和主耶穌的權能。請先問問你自己:對於神的愛,你的心是否滿了極大而又牢靠的信心?如果不是這樣的話,請不要立刻開始禱告。信心是不會自己來的,要安靜的思想:神是真實的。祂在無限量的愛裡已經預備好了,要來給你祝福。請讀一些關於啟示神的能力、信實,和愛心的聖經章節。把這些話引到你自己身上,並且說:「主阿!是的,我要在您和您的大愛裡,用堅固的信心來禱告。」 把「信心」這一個詞句只限制在赦罪和蒙悅納作神的兒女上面,乃是一件錯誤的事。信心所包含的遠超過這些。對於一切神所要為我們作的事上,我們都必須有信心。我們必須相信祂要照著我們每天的需要供給我們。神的偉大和能力是無限量的;基督的恩典也足彀應付我們每天新的需要,所以我們也應當照著每天的需要運用活的信心。 當你進入內室開始禱告之前,請問一問你自己:「我真是相信神是在這裡與我同在麼?也相信主耶穌要幫助我禱告麼?也相信我能夠在這蒙福的時間來和我的神有交通麼?」 主耶穌常常教導祂的門徒,如果要有真實的禱告,信心是絕對不可缺少的!所以祂照樣也要教導我們學這個功課。你要停留在祂的交通中,求祂用祂超然的能力,剛強你的信心。基督要對你我說當初祂對馬大所說過的話:「我不是對你說過,你若信,就必看見神的榮耀麼?」
■ 中文屬天日子(01月05日)
一月五日 有力量的生命的果效 「我所去的地方,你現在不能跟我去;後來卻要跟我去。」約翰福音十三章36節 說了這話,就對他說:「你跟從我吧。」「跟從我」一語,是三年前耶穌對彼得說的。彼得也很爽快地跟從了祂;那時,因為他的身上還有耶穌的吸力,不需要聖靈的幫助,就可以這麼做。及至否認耶穌的場合,他的心深深地創痛。及至獲得聖靈以後,耶穌又向他說:「跟從我。」這時不像從前那麼關切耶穌的危險。第一次「跟從」,並沒有甚麼神秘,不過是一種表面的追隨;可是此時的追隨,卻是一種內心的追隨,甚至願以身殉。(參約廿一18) 在彼得發誓與否認耶穌兩個時期之間,直到後來,他才不知有己,滿懷謙虛,覺得自己毫不足恃;就在這種絕望之中,他才從復活的主領受賜與。主「向他們吹一口氣,說:『你們受聖靈。』」(約廿21)切莫關心神怎樣改變你們,也莫依賴那些改變,只要仰仗主耶穌基督和祂賜與聖靈,去建立、去創造,就可以了。 我們一切的誓詞和決志,終結是無用的,因為我們沒有力量去實行。只有在我們真真束手無策的時候,才能接受聖靈。「你們受聖靈」,這種接受是被動的。此後在你們的生命中,還有一顆唯一的星光──主耶穌基督。
■ 中文上海嗎哪(01月05日)
一月五日 「我眷顧他,為要叫他遵守我的道」創世記十八章19節 神需要一些值得祂信賴的人,祂提到亞伯拉罕時,能說:「我眷顧他,使我所應許亞伯拉罕的話都成就了。」雖然神是可交託的,但祂要我們有決心、信靠且穩定。這也是有信心的真正意思。神一直在找一些人,一些能讓祂全心付出祂所有的愛,給予能力以及託付應許的對象。當神找到這樣的一個人時,祂會為這個人做任何一件事。神的力量強烈到能拉動任何的重擔,為要我們與祂緊緊地繫在一起。然而可惜的是,將我們與神繫在一起的繩索,往往弱得連我們禱告的重量都支持不了。所以神不時地訓練、管教和磨練我們,為得是要使我們在信心的生活中有定力及確據。讓我們來學習這些課程,並且堅定地站穩腳步。 對那些極少數敢於接受考驗的人, 神為他們預備了最好的一切。 為那些得不到最高祝福的人, 神也賜給他們次好的選擇。 然而神啊,求您賜我最高的祝福。 儘管他人可以得到其餘的一切, 那些好處卻對我毫無吸引力, 因為我已得到您至上的祝福。
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