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Proverbs 22:1
英文原文
Omit "good." The word is an insertion. To the Hebrew, "name" by itself conveyed the idea of good repute, just as "men without a name" (compare Job 30:8 margin) are those sunk in ignominy. The margin gives a preferable rendering of the second clause of this verse.
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Proverbs 22:2
比较旁注所引的经文。这是再次确认共同人性的一体，它超越一切等级的分别。
英文原文
Compare the margin reference. Another recognition of the oneness of a common humanity, overriding all distinctions of rank.
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Proverbs 22:4
更准确的译法是（比较旁注）："谦卑的赏赐就是敬畏耶和华，以及富有、尊荣、生命。"
英文原文
Better, (compare the margin) The reward of humility (is) the fear of the Lord, "riches, and honor, and life.
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Proverbs 22:6
教养——使其入门，从而施以教育。
当行的路——或作"按照他道路的本相"，即特别属于、特别适合个人性情的道路。这则箴言吩咐人尽可能细密地体察每个孩子的气质，并使"他的生活道路"与之相适应。
英文原文
Train - Initiate, and so, educate.
The way he should go - Or, according to the tenor of his way, i. e., the path especially belonging to, especially fitted for, the individual's character. The proverb enjoins the closest possible study of each child's temperament and the adaptation of "his way of life" to that.
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Proverbs 22:8
The rod of his anger——指他用来击打别人的东西（比较 Isaiah 14:6）。钦定本描写的是恶人的忿怒终归于无能为力。
英文原文
The rod of his anger - That with which he smites others (compare Isaiah 14:6). The King James Version describes the final impotence of the wrath of the wicked.
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Proverbs 22:9
眼目慈善的人——按字面意思如旁注所示，与 Proverbs 28:22 的“恶眼”恰成对照。
英文原文
He that hath a bountiful eye - literally, as in the margin, contrasted with the "evil eye" of Proverbs 28:22.
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Proverbs 22:11
更按字面直译：“喜爱心中纯洁的人，嘴唇满有恩惠，王必作他的朋友。”
英文原文
More literally, "He that loveth pureness of heart, his lips are gracious, the king is his friend."
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Proverbs 22:13
这讽刺的要点在于：懒惰的人竟能想出最不可能发生的恐慌。他听说“外头有狮子”——即在那空旷的郊野；他却害怕会在城的街市上被杀。
英文原文
The point of the satire is the ingenuity with which the slothful man devises the most improbable alarms. He hears that "there is a lion without," i. e., in the broad open country; he is afraid of being slain in the very streets of the city.
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Proverbs 22:14
人落入淫妇的网罗，看来是耶和华憎恶或震怒的后果。然而那憎恶乃是由先前的恶引起的：这人既被交给自己，罪就成了罪的刑罚。
英文原文
The fall of the man into the snare of the harlot seems to be the consequence of the abhorrence or wrath of Yahweh. That abhorrence is, however, the result of previous evil. The man is left to himself, and sin becomes the penalty of sin.
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Proverbs 22:16
更恰当的译法是：“欺压贫穷为要利己的，必致给与富户。”意思是：在事物的寻常进程中，他必被迫送给富人，而这只会叫自己受损。不义之财不能兴旺，只会使欺压者自己转而暴露于勒索与强暴之下。
英文原文
Better, He who oppresses the poor for his own profit gives. (i. e., will, in the common course of things, be compelled to give) to a rich man, and that only to his own loss. Ill-gotten gains do not prosper, and only expose the oppressor to extortion and violence in his turn.
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Proverbs 22:17
这是一个新的、完全独立段落的开始：照箴言 3:1、箴言 3:21；箴言 4:1；箴言 7:1的方式，先以一段总括的劝勉开篇（箴言 22:17-21），再进入具体的训诲。“智慧人的言语”可以是这一段的标题：请比较箴言 24:23。这一段的一般特征看来是：
(1) 对平行体法则的遵循较为宽松；
(2) 句子趋向更长、更复杂。请比较箴言的引言。
英文原文
This is the commencement of a new and entirely distinct section, opening, after the fashion of Proverbs 3:1, Proverbs 3:21; Proverbs 4:1; Proverbs 7:1; with a general exhortation Proverbs 22:17-21 and passing on to special precepts. The "words of the wise" may be a title to the section: compare Proverbs 24:23. The general characteristics of this section appear to be
(1) a less close attention to the laws of parallelism, and
(2) a tendency to longer and more complicated sentences. Compare the Introduction to Proverbs.
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Proverbs 22:18
在神与人眼前看为“美”的，乃是这两件事的结合：信流入认信，认信又立于信之上。
英文原文
What is "pleasant" in the sight of God and man is the union of two things, belief passing into profession, profession resting on belief.
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Proverbs 22:19
特别指教你——这教导虽然具有宽广的普遍性，却不妨碍它成为向每一位读者发出的个人信息。
英文原文
Even to thee - The wide general character of the teaching does not hinder its being a personal message to every one who reads it.
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Proverbs 22:20
美事——这词的一个含义源自“第三”，即“战车上三勇士之首”（比较 Exodus 14:7 的注释）。希伯来文本的另一读法给出“我岂不是许久以前就写给你了么？”，这与 Proverbs 22:19 的“今日”构成自然的对偶。七十士译本的译法是：“为你自己将它们写上三遍”；武加大译本的译法是：“我已把它（即我的谋略）以三重形式写下”。“三遍”或“三重形式”所指，或为箴言、传道书与雅歌，或为旧约的三分——律法、先知书与圣卷。
英文原文
Excellent things - A meaning of the word derived from "the third," i. e., "the chief of three warriors in a chariot" (compare Exodus 14:7 note). Another reading of the Hebrew text gives "Have I not written to thee long ago?" and this would form a natural antithesis to "this day" of Proverbs 22:19. The rendering of the Septuagint is: "write them for thyself three times;" that of the Vulgate, "I have written it (i. e., my counsel) In threefold form;" the "three times" or "threefold form" being referred either to the Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Solomon, or to the division of the Old Testament into the Law, the prophets, and the Hagiographa.
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Proverbs 22:21
那打发你来的人——按旁注译法更好；比较 Proverbs 10:26。学会了真理之言确切可信的人，也必学会在人所交付他的一切事上持守这确切。
英文原文
To them that send unto thee - Better as in the margin; compare Proverbs 10:26. The man who has learned the certainty of the words of truth will learn to observe it in all that men commit to him.
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Proverbs 22:22
意即：“不要因穷人的无援而受试探去欺压他”；有人则倾向于译作：“要因怜悯他的无援而不欺压他。”
城门口——城中掌权者坐堂断案之处。这话指向一种特殊形式的压迫，不义的审判官正是其工具。
英文原文
i. e., "Do not be tempted by the helplessness of the poor man to do him wrong:" some prefer, "Refrain from doing him wrong through pity for his helplessness."
The gate - The place where the rulers of the city sit in judgment. The words point to the special form of oppression of which unjust judges are the instruments.
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Proverbs 22:26
"击掌"——意即把自己绑作他人所负之债的保人(可比较旁注所引经文)。
英文原文
Strike hands - i. e., Bind themselves as surety for what another owes (compare the margin reference).
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Proverbs 22:27
"他"——即那收受担保的人。为追索债款而扣押财物的做法,虽然在Exodus 22:27中受了禁止,似乎已变得普遍。
英文原文
He - i. e., The man to whom the surety has been given. The practice of distraining for payment of a debt, seems, though prohibited Exodus 22:27, to have become common.
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Proverbs 22:28
这是对那贪得无厌之贪婪的抗议(见Isaiah 5:8)——它无视穷人的权利,任人侵夺他们的产业(比较旁注引证)。人们不时把这些话应用于思想或习俗的"界标",这虽然自然且正当,却与写作者的心意无涉。
英文原文
A protest against the grasping covetousness Isaiah 5:8 which is regardless of the rights of the poor upon whose inheritance men encroach (compare the margin reference). The not uncommon reference of the words to the "landmarks" of thought or custom, however, natural and legitimate, is foreign to the mind of the writer.
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Proverbs 22:29
敏捷而聪慧的才智,是天赋的恩赐,为要引人升至高位,而不该耗费在无名之辈也足以胜任的工作上。
英文原文
The gift of a quick and ready intellect is to lead to high office, it is not to be wasted on a work to which the obscure are adequate.
"美"字可省略。这个字是后来插入的。对希伯来人来说，"名"本身就已经含有美誉的意思，正如"无名之人"（比较 Job 30:8 旁注）指那些陷于羞辱中的人。旁注对本节第二分句提供了更可取的译法。