I turn my ear to a proverb; I explain my riddle with a lyre.

我要侧耳听比喻，用琴解谜语。

我要侧耳听比喻，用琴解谜语。

我要侧耳听比喻，用琴解谜语。

我要侧耳听箴言，弹琴解释人生之谜。

我要留心聆听箴言；我要弹琴解开谜语。

我要侧耳听箴言，弹竖琴解开谜题。

我要側耳聽比喻，用琴解謎語。

我要側耳聽比喻，用琴解謎語。

我要側耳聽比喻，用琴解謎語。

我要側耳聽箴言，彈琴解釋人生之謎。

我要留心聆聽箴言；我要彈琴解開謎語。

我要傾耳聽箴言，我要用琴解開我的難題。

我要側耳聽箴言，彈豎琴解開謎題。

必傾耳聽喻言、鼓琴解秘語兮、

諺言隱語、我傾耳以諦聽、鼓琴以詠歌兮。

我欲側耳而聽喻言、彈琴以解隱語、

吾言具眞慧。平生涵玄默。

I will turn my ear to a proverb; with the harp I will expound my riddle:

I will pay attention to a proverb. I will explain my riddle as I play the harp.

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will solve my riddle to the music of the lyre.

I listen carefully to many proverbs and solve riddles with inspiration from a harp.

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will express my riddle on the harp.

I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

I turn my ear to a proverb; I explain my riddle with a lyre.

I will incline mine ear to a parable: I will open my dark saying upon the harp.

I will learn a song that imparts wisdom; I will then sing my insightful song to the accompaniment of a harp.

I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will solve my riddle on the harp.

I will declare wise sayings; I will speak mysteries from the past—

so that what was spoken through the prophet might be fulfilled: I will open my mouth in parables; I will declare things kept secret from the foundation of the world.

for understanding a proverb or a parable, the words of the wise, and their riddles.

Balaam proclaimed his poem: Balak brought me from Aram; the king of Moab, from the eastern mountains:“ Come, put a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel!”

I speak with him directly, openly, and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. So why were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Near the end of their kingdoms, when the rebels have reached the full measure of their sin, a ruthless king, skilled in intrigue, will come to the throne.

Then I said,“ Oh, Lord GOD, they are saying of me,‘ Isn’t he just composing parables?’”

Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.

Since, then, we have such a hope, we act with great boldness.

He answered,“ Because the secrets of the kingdom of heaven have been given for you to know, but it has not been given to them.For whoever has, more will be given to him, and he will have more than enough; but whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.That is why I speak to them in parables, because looking they do not see, and hearing they do not listen or understand.Isaiah’s prophecy is fulfilled in them, which says: You will listen and listen, but never understand; you will look and look, but never perceive.For this people’s heart has grown callous; their ears are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes; otherwise they might see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back— and I would heal them.