Proverbs 2

¹My son, if you will receive my words And treasure my commandments within you,

¹我兒，你若領受我的言語，存記我的命令，

²Make your ear attentive to wisdom, Incline your heart to understanding;

²側耳聽智慧，專心求聰明，

³For if you cry for discernment, Lift your voice for understanding;

³呼求明哲，揚聲求聰明，

⁴If you seek her as silver And search for her as for hidden treasures;

⁴尋找他，如尋找銀子，搜求他，如搜求隱藏的珍寶，

⁵Then you will discern the fear of the LORD And discover the knowledge of God.

⁵你就明白敬畏耶和華，得以認識神。

⁶For the LORD gives wisdom; From His mouth [come] knowledge and understanding.

⁶因為，耶和華賜人智慧；知識和聰明都由他口而出。

⁷He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; [He is] a shield to those who walk in integrity,

⁷他給正直人存留真智慧，給行為純正的人作盾牌，

⁸Guarding the paths of justice, And He preserves the way of His godly ones.

⁸為要保守公平人的路，護庇虔敬人的道。

⁹Then you will discern righteousness and justice And equity [and] every good course.

⁹你也必明白仁義、公平、正直、一切的善道。

¹⁰For wisdom will enter your heart And knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;

¹⁰智慧必入你心；你的靈要以知識為美。

¹¹Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,

¹¹謀略必護衛你；聰明必保守你，

¹²To deliver you from the way of evil, From the man who speaks perverse things;

¹²要救你脫離惡道（或譯：惡人的道），脫離說乖謬話的人。

¹³From those who leave the paths of uprightness To walk in the ways of darkness;

¹³那等人捨棄正直的路，行走黑暗的道，

¹⁴Who delight in doing evil And rejoice in the perversity of evil;

¹⁴歡喜作惡，喜愛惡人的乖僻，

¹⁵Whose paths are crooked, And who are devious in their ways;

¹⁵在他們的道中彎曲，在他們的路上偏僻。

¹⁶To deliver you from the strange woman, From the adulteress who flatters with her words;

¹⁶智慧要救你脫離淫婦，就是那油嘴滑舌的外女。

¹⁷That leaves the companion of her youth And forgets the covenant of her God;

¹⁷他離棄幼年的配偶，忘了神的盟約。

¹⁸For her house sinks down to death And her tracks [lead] to the dead;

¹⁸他的家陷入死地；他的路偏向陰間。

¹⁹None who go to her return again, Nor do they reach the paths of life.

¹⁹凡到他那裡去的，不得轉回，也得不著生命的路。

²⁰So you will walk in the way of good men And keep to the paths of the righteous.

²⁰智慧必使你行善人的道，守義人的路。

²¹For the upright will live in the land And the blameless will remain in it;

²¹正直人必在世上居住；完全人必在地上存留。

²²But the wicked will be cut off from the land And the treacherous will be uprooted from it.

²²惟有惡人必然剪除；奸詐的，必然拔出。