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W5 2013-09-13 箴言23
23:29 誰有禍患？誰有憂愁？誰有爭鬥？誰有哀歎（或譯：怨言）？誰無故受傷？誰眼目紅赤？
23:30 就是那流連飲酒、常去尋找調和酒的人。
23:31 酒發紅，在杯中閃爍，你不可觀看，雖然下咽舒暢，終久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。
23:32 併於上節
23:33 你眼必看見異怪的事（或譯：淫婦）；你心必發出乖謬的話。
23:34 你必像躺在海中，或像臥在桅杆上。
23:35 你必說：人打我，我卻未受傷；人鞭打我，我竟不覺得。我幾時清醒，我仍去尋酒。
默想: 在一些傳統的華人教會中，關於飲酒，採取嚴格禁止的態度。除了箴言的這段教導外，也與保羅所說「不要醉酒，酒能使人放蕩；乃要被聖靈充滿。」(弗五18)所多關連。但是我們從許多經文中，又看到，聖經並沒有完全禁止喝酒。事實上，在新約中的教導，提醒我們的是不要「醉酒」(加五21；彼前四3)不要因酒滋事(提前三3；多一7)。喝酒在猶太人的文化中，其實也佔著重要的地位，特別我們都知道，耶穌在迦拿的婚宴上以水變酒。在箴言二十三章中，我們看到箴言的作者對於「流連飲酒」的態度是反對的，他形容這些人在酒醉之後看見怪異的事，發出乖謬的話，如同躺在海上，臥在桅竿上。甚至被人打毫無痛覺。這些酒後失態的狀況，是箴言作者提醒我們要避免的事。
基督徒不必把飲酒看成罪惡，但是卻要避免醉酒、荒宴。適量的飲酒(提前五23)，甚至有益身體，這是我們從聖經中所看到的。
題目: 你對於本章中有關醉酒的教導，有什麼看法呢？
23:1 你若與官長坐席，要留意在你面前的是誰。
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before thee:
23:2 你若是貪食的，就當拿刀放在喉嚨上。
And put a knife to thy throat, if thou be a man given to appetite.
23:3 不可貪戀他的美食，因為是哄人的食物。
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful meat.
23:4 不要勞碌求富，休仗自己的聰明。
Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
23:5 你豈要定睛在虛無的錢財上嗎？因錢財必長翅膀，如鷹向天飛去。
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. set...: Heb. cause thine eyes to fly upon
23:6 不要吃惡眼人的飯，也不要貪他的美味；
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats:
23:7 因為他心怎樣思量，他為人就是怎樣。他雖對你說，請吃，請喝，他的心卻與你相背。
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; but his heart is not with thee.
23:8 你所吃的那點食物必吐出來；你所說的甘美言語也必落空。
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
23:9 你不要說話給愚昧人聽，因他必藐視你智慧的言語。
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
23:10 不可挪移古時的地界，也不可侵入孤兒的田地；
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless: landmark: or, bound
23:11 因他們的救贖主大有能力，他必向你為他們辨屈。
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.
23:12 你要留心領受訓誨，側耳聽從知識的言語。
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
23:13 不可不管教孩童；你用杖打他，他必不至於死。
Withhold not correction from the child: for if thou beatest him with the rod, he shall not die.
23:14 你要用杖打他，就可以救他的靈魂免下陰間。
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.
23:15 我兒，你心若存智慧，我的心也甚歡喜。
My son, if thine heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine. even...: or, even I will rejoice
23:16 你的嘴若說正直話，我的心腸也必快樂。
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when thy lips speak right things.
23:17 你心中不要嫉妒罪人，只要終日敬畏耶和華；
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
23:18 因為至終必有善報，你的指望也不致斷絕。
For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off. end: or, reward
23:19 我兒，你當聽，當存智慧，好在正道上引導你的心。
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thine heart in the way.
23:20 好飲酒的，好吃肉的，不要與他們來往；
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: of flesh: Heb. of their flesh
23:21 因為好酒貪食的，必致貧窮；好睡覺的，必穿破爛衣服。
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
23:22 你要聽從生你的父親；你母親老了，也不可藐視她。
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
23:23 你當買真理；就是智慧、訓誨，和聰明也都不可賣。
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
23:24 義人的父親必大得快樂；人生智慧的兒子，必因他歡喜。
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.
23:25 你要使父母歡喜，使生你的快樂。
Thy father and thy mother shall be glad, and she that bare thee shall rejoice.
23:26 我兒，要將你的心歸我；你的眼目也要喜悅我的道路。
My son, give me thine heart, and let thine eyes observe my ways.
23:27 妓女是深坑；外女是窄阱。
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
23:28 她埋伏好像強盜；她使人中多有奸詐的。
She also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men. as for...: or, as a robber
23:29 誰有禍患？誰有憂愁？誰有爭鬥？誰有哀歎（或譯：怨言）？誰無故受傷？誰眼目紅赤？
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause? who hath redness of eyes?
23:30 就是那流連飲酒、常去尋找調和酒的人。
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
23:31 酒發紅，在杯中閃爍，你不可觀看，雖然下咽舒暢，終久是咬你如蛇，刺你如毒蛇。
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
23:32 併於上節
At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder. an...: or, a cockatrice
23:33 你眼必看見異怪的事（或譯：淫婦）；你心必發出乖謬的話。
Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
23:34 你必像躺在海中，或像臥在桅杆上。
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast. the midst...: Heb. the heart of the sea
23:35 你必說：人打我，我卻未受傷；人鞭打我，我竟不覺得。我幾時清醒，我仍去尋酒。
They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again. I felt...: Heb. I knew it not
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