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Wisdom of Solomon 4

Greek original · 20 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 3 other originals — side by side (Vulgate, Ge'ez Bible, Apocrypha)

4:1

κρείσσων ἀτεκνία μετὰ ἀρετῆς ἀθανασία γάρ ἐστιν ἐν μνήμῃ αὐτῆς ὅτι καὶ παρὰ θεῷ γινώσκεται καὶ παρὰ ἀνθρώποις

Better than this is childishness with virtue; For in the memory of virtue is immortality: Because it is recognized both before God and before men.

有德而無子，勝過這樣的人；因為德行的記念裡有不朽，在神和世人面前都被看重。

4:2

παροῦσάν τε μιμοῦνται αὐτὴν καὶ ποθοῦσιν ἀπελθοῦσαν καὶ ἐν τῷ αἰῶνι στεφανηφοροῦσα πομπεύει τὸν τῶν ἀμιάντων ἄθλων ἀγῶνα νικήσασα

When it is present, men imitate it; And they long after it when it is departed: And throughout all time it marcheth crowned in triumph, Victorious in the strife for the prizes that are undefiled.

德行存在時，人就效法它；它離去後，人就思慕它；它永遠頭戴冠冕得勝凱旋，因贏得那無瑕的賞賜之爭戰而誇勝。

4:3

πολύγονον δὲ ἀσεβῶν πλῆθος οὐ χρησιμεύσει καὶ ἐκ νόθων μοσχευμάτων οὐ δώσει ῥίζαν εἰς βάθος οὐδὲ ἀσφαλῆ βάσιν ἑδράσει

But the multiplying brood of the ungodly will be of no profit, And with bastard slips they will not strike deep root, Nor will they establish a sure hold.

但不敬虔者眾多的子孫卻無益處，從私生的枝條中，他們不能向下扎深根，也不能立穩根基。

4:4

κἂν γὰρ ἐν κλάδοις πρὸς καιρὸν ἀναθάλῃ ἐπισφαλῶς βεβηκότα ὑπὸ ἀνέμου σαλευθήσεται καὶ ὑπὸ βίας ἀνέμων ἐκριζωθήσεται

For even if these put forth boughs and flourish for a season, q1 Yet, standing unsure, they will be shaken by the wind, And by the violence of winds they will be rooted out.

因為這些縱然暫時長出枝子茂盛一時，卻立足不穩，必被風搖動，被狂風的暴力連根拔起。

4:5

περικλασθήσονται κλῶνες ἀτέλεστοι καὶ ὁ καρπὸς αὐτῶν ἄχρηστος ἄωρος εἰς βρῶσιν καὶ εἰς οὐθὲν ἐπιτήδειος

Their branches will be broken off before they come to maturity, and their fruit will be useless, Never ripe to eat, and fit for nothing.

未成熟的嫩枝必被折斷，所結的果子無用，不熟不可喫，毫無用處。

4:6

ἐκ γὰρ ἀνόμων ὕπνων τέκνα γεννώμενα μάρτυρές εἰσιν πονηρίας κατὰ γονέων ἐν ἐξετασμῷ αὐτῶν

For children unlawfully begotten are witnesses of wickedness Against parents when God searcheth them out.

因為從不法情慾所生的兒女，在受察驗時，必作見證控告他們父母的邪惡。

4:7

δίκαιος δὲ ἐὰν φθάσῃ τελευτῆσαι ἐν ἀναπαύσει ἔσται

But a righteous man, though he die before his time, will be at rest.

但義人縱然早逝，也必得安息。

4:8

γῆρας γὰρ τίμιον οὐ τὸ πολυχρόνιον οὐδὲ ἀριθμῷ ἐτῶν μεμέτρηται

(For honorable old age is not that which stands in length of time, Nor is its measure given by number of years:

因為可敬的老年不在於年日的長久，也不是以歲數來衡量；

4:9

πολιὰ δέ ἐστιν φρόνησις ἀνθρώποις καὶ ἡλικία γήρως βίος ἀκηλίδωτος

But understanding is gray hairs to men, And an unspotted life is ripe old age.)

明達於人就是白髮，無瑕的生活就是真正的老成。