I wish that you would bear with me in a little foolishness; but indeed you do bear with me.
我愿你们容忍我一点愚妄，其实你们确是容忍我的。

For I am jealous over you with a jealousy of God; for I betrothed you to one husband to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
我以神的妒忌，妒忌你们，因为我曾把你们许配一个丈夫，要将一个贞洁的童女献给基督。

But I fear lest somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your thoughts would be corrupted from the simplicity and the purity toward Christ.
我只怕你们的心思或被败坏，失去那向着基督的单纯和纯洁，就像蛇用诡诈诱骗了夏娃一样。

For if indeed he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we have not preached, or you receive a different spirit, which you have not received, or a different gospel, which you have not accepted, you bear well with him.
假若有人来，传另一位耶稣，不是我们所传过的，或者你们接受了一个不同的灵，不是你们所接受过的，或者接受了一个不同的福音，不是你们所接受过的，你们还好好地容忍他！

But I count myself to be inferior to the super-apostles in nothing.
但我认为，自己一点没有赶不上那些超级的使徒。

But even if I am a layman in speech, yet I am not in knowledge; indeed in every way we have made this manifest in all things to you.
我即使在言语上是常人，在知识上却不然；其实我们在凡事上，在各方面，都已经向你们显明了。

Or did I commit a sin, abasing myself that you might be exalted, because I announced the gospel of God to you free of charge?
我因为白白传神的福音给你们，就卑屈自己，为叫你们升高，这是我犯了罪么？

I robbed other churches, taking wages for the ministry to you.
我剥夺了别的召会，取了工价，为着服事你们。

And when I was present with you and lacked, I was not a burden to anyone; for the brothers who came from Macedonia filled up my lack, and in everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and will keep myself.
我在你们那里缺乏的时候，并没有累着你们一个人，因我所缺乏的，那从马其顿来的弟兄们都补足了。我向来凡事自守，不累着你们，将来也必自守。

The truthfulness of Christ is in me, that this boasting shall not be stopped as it regards me in the regions of Achaia.
基督的真实在我里面，这夸口在亚该亚一带，是不会在我身上被堵住的。

Why? Because I do not love you? God knows.
为什么？是因我不爱你们么？神晓得。

But what I do, I also will do, that I may cut off the opportunity of those desiring an opportunity, that in the thing in which they boast, they may be found even as we.
我现在所作的，将来还要作，为要断绝那些要得机会者的机会，使他们在所夸的事上，给人看出也不过与我们一样。

For such ones are false apostles, deceitful workers, transfiguring themselves into apostles of Christ.
那等人是假使徒，是诡诈的工人，装作基督的使徒。

And no wonder, for Satan himself transfigures himself into an angel of light.
这并不希奇，因为撒但自己也装作光的使者。

Therefore it is no great thing if also his ministers transfigure themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works.
所以他的差役若也装作义的差役，并不算大事，他们的结局，必然照着他们所作的。

Again I say, Let no one think me to be foolish; but if otherwise, accept me even as if I were foolish, that I also may boast a little.
我再说，人不可把我看作愚妄的；纵然如此，也要把我当作愚妄人接纳，叫我也可以略略夸口。

What I speak, I speak not according to the Lord but as if in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
我所说的，不是照着主说的，乃像在愚妄中，因自信而这样夸口。

Since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast.
既有好些人照着肉体夸口，我也要夸口，

For you bear gladly with fools because you yourselves are wise.
因你们是精明人，喜欢容忍愚妄人。

For you bear it if anyone enslaves you, if anyone devours you, if anyone takes you, if anyone lifts himself up, if anyone beats you in the face.
若有人强制你们作奴隶，若有人侵吞你们，若有人掳掠你们，若有人高举自己，若有人打你们的脸，你们都会容忍！

By way of self-disparagement I say this, Supposedly we ourselves were weak. But in whatever anyone else is daring, I speak in foolishness, I also am daring.
我自贱地说，我们从前太软弱了！然而，我愚妄地说，人在何事上勇敢，我也勇敢。

Hebrews are they? I also. Israelites are they? I also. The seed of Abraham are they? I also.
他们是希伯来人么？我也是。他们是以色列人么？我也是。他们是亚伯拉罕的后裔么？我也是。

Ministers of Christ are they? I speak as being beside myself, I more so! In labors more abundantly, in imprisonments more abundantly, in stripes excessively, in deaths often.
他们是基督的执事么？我疯狂地说，我更是！论劳苦，是更多的；论下监，是更多的；论鞭打，是过重的；论冒死，是屡次有的。

Under the hands of the Jews five times I received forty stripes less one;
我给犹太人鞭打五次，每次四十，减去一下；

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep;
给棍打了三次，给石头打了一次，遇着船坏三次，在深海里过了一昼一夜；

In journeys often, in dangers of rivers, in dangers of robbers, in dangers from my race, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the city, in dangers in the wilderness, in dangers in the sea, in dangers among false brothers;
屡次行远路，遭江河的危险、盗贼的危险、同族的危险、外邦人的危险、城里的危险、旷野的危险、海中的危险、假弟兄中的危险；

In labor and hardship; in watchings often; in hunger and thirst; in fastings often; in cold and nakedness —
劳碌辛苦，论儆醒，是多次的；论饥渴、论不食，是多次的；论寒冷和赤身──

Apart from the things which have not been mentioned, there is this: the crowd of cares pressing upon me daily, the anxious concern for all the churches.
除了没有提起的事，还有为众召会的挂虑，天天压在我身上。

Who is weak, and I am not weak? Who is stumbled, and I myself do not burn?
有谁软弱，我不软弱？有谁绊跌，我不焦急？

If I must boast, I will boast of the things of my weakness.
我若必须夸口，就要夸我软弱的事。

The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
主耶稣的神与父，就是那当受颂赞直到永远的，知道我不说谎。

In Damascus, the governor under Aretas the king guarded the city of the Damascenes in order to seize me;
在大马色，亚哩达王手下的提督，把守大马色人的城，要捉拿我，

And in a basket I was lowered through a window, through the wall, and escaped his hands.
我就从窗户中，在筐子里给人从城墙上缒下去，逃脱了他的手。

Do not boast about tomorrow, / For you do not know what a day may bring forth.
不要为明日夸口，因为一日要发生何事，你尚且不能知道。

Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; / A foreigner, and not your own lips.
让别人夸奖你，不可用口自夸；让外人称赞你，不可用嘴自赞。

A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty, / But a fool's vexation is heavier than both of them.
石头重，沙土沉，愚妄人的恼怒比这两样更重。

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, / But who can stand before jealousy?
忿怒为残忍，怒气为狂澜，惟有嫉妒，谁能敌得住呢？

Open rebuke is better / Than love that is hidden.
公开的责备强如暗中的爱。

Faithful are the wounds of a friend, / But the kisses of an enemy are profuse.
朋友加的伤痕是出于忠诚，仇敌却与你连连亲嘴。

The full soul loathes a honeycomb, / But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.
吃饱的人，厌恶蜂房的蜜；饥饿的人，一切苦物都觉甘甜。

Like a bird that wanders from her nest, / So is a man who wanders from his place.
人离本处飘流，好像雀鸟离窝游飞。

Oil and perfume rejoice the heart; / So a man's counsel is sweet to his friend.
膏油与香料使人心喜乐；人的劝戒，对他朋友也是如此甘美。

Do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend / To go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity: / Better is a neighbor who is near than a brother far away.
你不可撇开自己的朋友和父亲的朋友，而在遭难的日子上你弟兄的家去：相近的邻舍，强如远方的弟兄。

My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, / That I may answer him who reproaches me.
我儿，你要作智慧人，好叫我的心快乐，使我可以回答那辱骂我的人。

A prudent man sees evil and hides himself; / But the simple pass on and suffer punishment for it.
灵巧人见祸藏躲，愚蒙人却前往受罚。

Take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger, / And hold one in pledge who is surety for a foreign woman.
谁为生人作保，就拿谁的衣服；谁为外女作保，就向谁取抵押。

He who blesses his friend with a loud voice, / Arousing him early in the morning, / It will be reckoned as a curse to him.
清晨吵醒朋友，大声给他祝福的，就算是咒诅他。

A continual dripping on a very rainy day / And a contentious woman are alike;
大雨之日连连滴漏，和争吵的妇人一样；

He who would restrain her restrains the wind, / And grasps oil with his right hand.
想拦阻她的，便是拦阻风，也是右手抓油。

Iron sharpens iron; / So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.
铁磨铁，使铁锋利；人与朋友互相砥砺，也是如此。

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, / And he who takes care of his master will be honored.
看守无花果树的，必吃树上的果子；看护主人的，必得尊荣。

As in water face reflects face, / So the heart of man reflects man.
水怎样映照人面，人心也照样反映其人。

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied, / And the eyes of man are never satisfied.
阴间和灭亡总不满足，人的眼目也总不满足。

The refining pot is for silver and the furnace for gold, / And a man is tried by the praise given him.
鼎为炼银，炉为炼金，人的称赞也试炼人。

Though you pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, / His folly will not depart from him.
你虽用杵将愚妄人与打碎的麦子一同捣在臼中，他的愚妄还是离不了他。

Know well the condition of your flocks, / And pay attention to your herds —
你要详细知道你羊群的景况，留心料理你的牛群──

For riches are not forever, / Nor does a crown endure from generation to generation —
因为财富不能永有，冠冕也不能代代常存。

Then when the grass has disappeared, and the tender grass is seen, / And the herbs of the mountains have been gathered in,
干草割去，嫩草出现，山上的菜蔬也被收取时，

The lambs will be for your clothing, / And the goats will bring the price of a field;
有羊羔的毛为作你衣服，山羊作田地的价值；

And there will be goats' milk enough for your food, / For the food of your household, / And for the sustenance for your maidens.
并有母山羊奶够你吃，也够你的家眷吃，且够你的婢女养生。

The wicked flee when no man pursues, / But the righteous are as bold as a lion.
恶人虽无人追赶也逃跑，义人却胆壮像狮子。

When a land revolts, it has many rulers; / But by him who has understanding and knowledge it endures.
国中有叛逆，君王就多更换；因有聪明知识的人，国必长存。

A destitute man who oppresses the poor / Is like a driving rain which leaves no food.
穷人欺压贫民，好像暴雨冲没粮食。

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, / But those who keep the law contend with them.
违弃律法的，夸奖恶人；遵守律法的，却与恶人相争。

Evil men do not understand justice, / But those who seek Jehovah understand all things.
坏人不明白公理，惟有寻求耶和华的，明白一切。

Better is a poor man who walks in his integrity / Than he who is perverse in his ways though he is rich.
行为纯全的穷乏人，胜过行径乖僻的富足人。

Whoever keeps the law is an understanding son, / But he who is a companion of gluttons shames his father.
谨守律法的，是聪明之子；与贪食人作伴的，却羞辱其父。

He who increases his substance by interest and usury / Gathers it for him who is gracious to the poor.
以高利厚息加增财物的，是为那恩待穷人者积蓄。

He who turns away his ear from hearing the law, / Even his prayer is an abomination.
转耳不听律法的，他的祷告也为可憎。

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way / Will himself fall into his own pit, / But the perfect will inherit good.
使正直人岔入恶道的，必掉在自己的坑里，惟有完全人必承受美福。

The rich man is wise in his own conceit, / But the poor man who has understanding searches him out.
富足人自以为有智慧，但聪明的贫穷人能将他查透。

When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; / But when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
义人得胜，有大荣耀；恶人兴起，人就躲藏。

He who covers his transgressions will not prosper, / But whoever confesses and forsakes them will obtain mercy.
遮掩自己罪过的，必不亨通；承认离弃罪过的，必蒙怜悯。

Blessed is the man who always fears, / But he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity.
常存敬畏的，便为有福；心存刚硬的，必陷在祸患里。

Like a roaring lion and a roving bear / Is a wicked ruler over a poor people.
暴虐的官长辖制贫民，好像吼叫的狮子、往来觅食的熊。

The ruler who lacks understanding is also a great oppressor, / But he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.
昏庸的首领多行暴虐，但恨恶不义之财的，必年长日久。

A man who is burdened with a person's blood / Will be a fugitive until death; / Let no man support him.
背负流人血之罪的，必逃亡至死，谁也不可支持他。

Whoever walks uprightly will be delivered, / But he who is perverse in his ways will fall all at once.
行动正直的，必蒙拯救；行径弯曲的，立时跌倒。

He who tills his land will have plenty of bread, / But he who pursues worthless things will have plenty of poverty.
耕种自己田地的，必得饱食；追随虚浮的，必饱受穷乏。

A faithful man will abound with blessings, / But he who makes haste to be rich will not go unpunished.
忠信人必多得福；急于发财的，难免受罚。

To have respect of persons is not good, / Because for a piece of bread a man will transgress.
看人的情面乃为不好，因人会为一块饼犯法。

A man who is envious hastens after wealth, / And does not know that want will come upon him.
嫉妒的人急于发财，却不知穷乏必临到他身上。

He who rebukes a man will afterward find more favor / Than he who flatters with the tongue.
责备人的后来得人喜悦，多于那用舌头谄媚人的。

Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, / It is no transgression, / Is the companion of a man who destroys.
抢夺父母，且说这不是过犯，这人是与强盗同伙。

A greedy person stirs up contention, / But he who trusts in Jehovah will prosper.
贪婪的人挑启纷争，信靠耶和华的必得丰裕。

He who trusts in his own heart is a fool, / But he who walks wisely will be delivered.
心中自恃的是愚昧人，凭智慧而行的必蒙拯救。

He who gives to the poor man will not lack, / But he who shuts his eyes will have many curses.
周济贫穷的不至缺乏，佯为不见的必多受咒诅。

When the wicked rise, men hide themselves; / But when they perish, the righteous increase.
恶人兴起，人就躲藏；恶人灭亡，义人增多。