逐节对照
- World English Bible - If the ax is blunt, and one doesn’t sharpen the edge, then he must use more strength; but skill brings success.
- 新标点和合本 - 铁器钝了，若不将刃磨快，就必多费气力； 但得智慧指教，便有益处。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 铁器钝了，若不将刃磨快，就必多费力气； 但智慧的益处在于使人成功。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 铁器钝了，若不将刃磨快，就必多费力气； 但智慧的益处在于使人成功。
- 当代译本 - 斧头钝了若不磨利， 用起来必多费力气， 但智慧能助人成功。
- 圣经新译本 - 斧头若钝了，还不把斧刃磨快，就必多费力气；智慧的好处在于助人成功。
- 中文标准译本 - 铁器钝了，如果不把刃磨利， 用起来就多费力气； 而智慧无往不利，带来成功。
- 现代标点和合本 - 铁器钝了，若不将刃磨快，就必多费气力， 但得智慧指教便有益处。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 铁器钝了，若不将刃磨快，就必多费气力， 但得智慧指教，便有益处。
- New International Version - If the ax is dull and its edge unsharpened, more strength is needed, but skill will bring success.
- New International Reader's Version - Suppose the blade of an ax is dull. And its edge hasn’t been sharpened. Then more effort is needed to use it. But skill will bring success.
- English Standard Version - If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
- New Living Translation - Using a dull ax requires great strength, so sharpen the blade. That’s the value of wisdom; it helps you succeed.
- The Message - Remember: The duller the ax the harder the work; Use your head: The more brains, the less muscle.
- Christian Standard Bible - If the ax is dull, and one does not sharpen its edge, then one must exert more strength; however, the advantage of wisdom is that it brings success.
- New American Standard Bible - If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength. Wisdom has the advantage of bringing success.
- New King James Version - If the ax is dull, And one does not sharpen the edge, Then he must use more strength; But wisdom brings success.
- Amplified Bible - If the axe is dull and he does not sharpen its edge, then he must exert more strength; but wisdom [to sharpen the axe] helps him succeed [with less effort].
- American Standard Version - If the iron be blunt, and one do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
- King James Version - If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.
- New English Translation - If an iron axhead is blunt and a workman does not sharpen its edge, he must exert a great deal of effort; so wisdom has the advantage of giving success.
- 新標點和合本 - 鐵器鈍了，若不將刃磨快，就必多費氣力； 但得智慧指教，便有益處。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 鐵器鈍了，若不將刃磨快，就必多費力氣； 但智慧的益處在於使人成功。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 鐵器鈍了，若不將刃磨快，就必多費力氣； 但智慧的益處在於使人成功。
- 當代譯本 - 斧頭鈍了若不磨利， 用起來必多費力氣， 但智慧能助人成功。
- 聖經新譯本 - 斧頭若鈍了，還不把斧刃磨快，就必多費力氣；智慧的好處在於助人成功。
- 呂振中譯本 - 鐵器若鈍了，人又不將刀刃磨快， 那麼他就得多費力氣； 但智慧的長處是能給人成功。
- 中文標準譯本 - 鐵器鈍了，如果不把刃磨利， 用起來就多費力氣； 而智慧無往不利，帶來成功。
- 現代標點和合本 - 鐵器鈍了，若不將刃磨快，就必多費氣力， 但得智慧指教便有益處。
- 文理和合譯本 - 斧鈍不礪其鋒、則費力尤多、惟智慧使人獲益、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 斧斤己鈍、不加磨礪、則斬伐必費其力、智者知所當為。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 斧刃已鈍、若不磨礪、斬伐必致費力、有智慧者知當務之為急、 有智慧者知當務之為急或作有智慧者知如何治之
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Si el hacha pierde su filo, y no se vuelve a afilar, hay que golpear con más fuerza. El éxito radica en la acción sabia y bien ejecutada.
- 현대인의 성경 - 도끼를 갈지 않아 날이 무디면 그만큼 힘이 더 든다. 그러므로 도끼 날을 가는 것이 지혜로운 방법이다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Если топор тупой, и лезвие его не отточено, то нужно будет прилагать большое усилие, а мудрость бы все предусмотрела.
- Восточный перевод - Если топор тупой, и лезвие его не отточено, то нужно будет прилагать большое усилие, а мудрость бы всё предусмотрела.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Если топор тупой, и лезвие его не отточено, то нужно будет прилагать большое усилие, а мудрость бы всё предусмотрела.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Если топор тупой, и лезвие его не отточено, то нужно будет прилагать большое усилие, а мудрость бы всё предусмотрела.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Si le fer de la hache est émoussé et qu’on n’en aiguise pas le tranchant, il faudra redoubler de force, mais la sagesse a l’avantage d’assurer la réussite.
- リビングバイブル - 斧の切れ味が悪くなると、余計な力がいる。 そんなときには刃を研ぐことだ。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Se o machado está cego e sua lâmina não foi afiada, é preciso golpear com mais força; agir com sabedoria assegura o sucesso.
- Hoffnung für alle - Wenn die Axt stumpf geworden ist, weil ihr Benutzer sie nicht geschliffen hat, muss er sich doppelt anstrengen. Der Kluge hält sein Werkzeug in Ordnung.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Dùng một cái rìu cùn sẽ phí nhiều sức, vậy phải mài lưỡi rìu trước. Đó là giá trị của sự khôn ngoan; nó sẽ giúp cho sự thành công.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - หากขวานทื่อ และไม่ได้ลับให้คม เวลาใช้ก็ต้องออกแรงมากขึ้น แต่ความเชี่ยวชาญจะนำความสำเร็จมาให้
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - ถ้าหากเครื่องมือเหล็กทื่อ และเขาไม่ลับให้คม เขาก็ต้องใช้แรงมากขึ้น แต่สติปัญญาช่วยให้สำเร็จผลได้
交叉引用
- Matthew 10:16 - “Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
- 1 Chronicles 12:32 - Of the children of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, their heads were two hundred; and all their brothers were at their command.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20 - Brothers, don’t be children in thoughts, yet in malice be babies, but in thoughts be mature.
- Acts 6:1 - Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, a complaint arose from the Hellenists against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily service.
- Acts 6:2 - The twelve summoned the multitude of the disciples and said, “It is not appropriate for us to forsake the word of God and serve tables.
- Acts 6:3 - Therefore select from among you, brothers, seven men of good report, full of the Holy Spirit and of wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.
- Acts 6:4 - But we will continue steadfastly in prayer and in the ministry of the word.”
- Acts 6:5 - These words pleased the whole multitude. They chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch;
- Acts 6:6 - whom they set before the apostles. When they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.
- Acts 6:7 - The word of God increased and the number of the disciples greatly multiplied in Jerusalem. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
- Acts 6:8 - Stephen, full of faith and power, performed great wonders and signs among the people.
- Acts 6:9 - But some of those who were of the synagogue called “The Libertines”, and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
- 1 Kings 3:9 - Give your servant therefore an understanding heart to judge your people, that I may discern between good and evil; for who is able to judge this great people of yours?”
- Acts 15:2 - Therefore when Paul and Barnabas had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Paul and Barnabas, and some others of them, to go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.
- Acts 15:3 - They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.
- Acts 15:4 - When they had come to Jerusalem, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the elders, and they reported everything that God had done with them.
- Acts 15:5 - But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”
- Acts 15:6 - The apostles and the elders were gathered together to see about this matter.
- Acts 15:7 - When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
- Acts 15:8 - God, who knows the heart, testified about them, giving them the Holy Spirit, just like he did to us.
- Acts 15:9 - He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
- Acts 15:10 - Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
- Acts 15:11 - But we believe that we are saved through the grace of the Lord Jesus, just as they are.”
- Acts 15:12 - All the multitude kept silence, and they listened to Barnabas and Paul reporting what signs and wonders God had done among the nations through them.
- Acts 15:13 - After they were silent, James answered, “Brothers, listen to me.
- Acts 15:14 - Simeon has reported how God first visited the nations to take out of them a people for his name.
- Acts 15:15 - This agrees with the words of the prophets. As it is written,
- Acts 15:16 - ‘After these things I will return. I will again build the tabernacle of David, which has fallen. I will again build its ruins. I will set it up
- Acts 15:17 - that the rest of men may seek after the Lord; all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who does all these things.’
- Acts 15:18 - “All of God’s works are known to him from eternity.
- Acts 15:19 - Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,
- Acts 15:20 - but that we write to them that they abstain from the pollution of idols, from sexual immorality, from what is strangled, and from blood.
- Acts 15:21 - For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
- Genesis 41:33 - “Now therefore let Pharaoh look for a discreet and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:34 - Let Pharaoh do this, and let him appoint overseers over the land, and take up the fifth part of the land of Egypt’s produce in the seven plenteous years.
- Genesis 41:35 - Let them gather all the food of these good years that come, and store grain under the hand of Pharaoh for food in the cities, and let them keep it.
- Genesis 41:36 - The food will be to supply the land against the seven years of famine, which will be in the land of Egypt; so that the land will not perish through the famine.”
- Genesis 41:37 - The thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.
- Genesis 41:38 - Pharaoh said to his servants, “Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?”
- Genesis 41:39 - Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Because God has shown you all of this, there is no one so discreet and wise as you.
- Romans 16:19 - For your obedience has become known to all. I rejoice therefore over you. But I desire to have you wise in that which is good, but innocent in that which is evil.
- Exodus 18:19 - Listen now to my voice. I will give you counsel, and God be with you. You represent the people before God, and bring the causes to God.
- Exodus 18:20 - You shall teach them the statutes and the laws, and shall show them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.
- Exodus 18:21 - Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men which fear God: men of truth, hating unjust gain; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens.
- Exodus 18:22 - Let them judge the people at all times. It shall be that every great matter they shall bring to you, but every small matter they shall judge themselves. So shall it be easier for you, and they shall share the load with you.
- Exodus 18:23 - If you will do this thing, and God commands you so, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
- 2 Chronicles 23:4 - This is the thing that you must do. A third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be gatekeepers of the thresholds.
- 2 Chronicles 23:5 - A third part shall be at the king’s house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation. All the people will be in the courts of Yahweh’s house.
- 2 Chronicles 23:6 - But let no one come into Yahweh’s house, except the priests and those who minister of the Levites. They shall come in, for they are holy, but all the people shall follow Yahweh’s instructions.
- 2 Chronicles 23:7 - The Levites shall surround the king, every man with his weapons in his hand. Whoever comes into the house, let him be slain. Be with the king when he comes in, and when he goes out.”
- 2 Chronicles 23:8 - So the Levites and all Judah did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they each took his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath; with those who were to go out on the Sabbath; for Jehoiada the priest didn’t dismiss the shift.
- 2 Chronicles 23:9 - Jehoiada the priest delivered to the captains of hundreds the spears, and bucklers, and shields, that had been king David’s, which were in God’s house.
- 2 Chronicles 23:10 - He set all the people, every man with his weapon in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left side of the house, near the altar and the house, around the king.
- 2 Chronicles 23:11 - Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown on him, and gave him the covenant, and made him king. Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, “Long live the king!”
- Colossians 4:5 - Walk in wisdom toward those who are outside, redeeming the time.
- Ecclesiastes 9:15 - Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
- Ecclesiastes 9:16 - Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
- Ecclesiastes 9:17 - The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
- Ephesians 5:15 - Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,
- Ephesians 5:16 - redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
- Ephesians 5:17 - Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
- James 1:5 - But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him.
- Ecclesiastes 10:15 - The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.