Mar 30【每日活水】敬畏 SHEN 是智慧的开端

箴言的价值

1 以色列王大卫儿子所罗门的箴言：

2 要使人晓得智慧和训诲，分辨通达的言语，

3 使人处事领受智慧、 仁义、公平、正直的训诲，

4 使愚人灵明，使少年人有知识和谋略，

5 使智慧人听见，增长学问，使聪明人得着智谋，

6 使人明白箴言和譬喻，懂得智慧人的言词和谜语。

给年青人的忠告

7 敬畏耶/和/华是知识的开端；愚妄人藐视智慧和训诲。

8 我儿，要听你父亲的训诲，不可离弃你母亲的法则；

9 因为这要作你头上的华冠，你项上的金链。

10 我儿，恶人若引诱你，你不可随从。

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；

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；

13 我们必得各样宝物，将所掳来的，装满房屋；

14 你与我们大家同分，我们共用一个囊袋；

15 我儿，不要与他们同行一道，禁止你脚走他们的路。

16 因为，他们的脚奔跑行恶；他们急速流人的血，

17 好像飞鸟，网罗设在眼前仍不躲避。

18 这些人埋伏，是为自流己血；蹲伏，是为自害己命。

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。 

Purpose and Theme

1 The proverbs of Solomon son of David, king of Israel:

2 for gaining wisdom and instruction; for understanding words of insight;

3 for receiving instruction in prudent behavior, doing what is right and just and fair;

4 for giving prudence to those who are simple, knowledge and discretion to the young—

5 let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance—

6 for understanding proverbs and parables, the sayings and riddles of the wise.

7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men

8 Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction and do not forsake your mother’s teaching.

9 They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.

10 My son, if sinful men entice you, do not give in to them.

11 If they say, “Come along with us; let’s lie in wait for innocent blood, let’s ambush some harmless soul;

12 let’s swallow them alive, like the grave, and whole, like those who go down to the pit;

13 we will get all sorts of valuable things and fill our houses with plunder;

14 cast lots with us; we will all share the loot”—

15 my son, do not go along with them, do not set foot on their paths;

16 for their feet rush into evil, they are swift to shed blood.

17 How useless to spread a net where every bird can see it!

18 These men lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush only themselves!

19 Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain; it takes away the life of those who get it.

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