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

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

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

I will sing a song that imparts wisdom; I will make insightful observations about the past.

This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet:“ I will open my mouth in parables, I will announce what has been hidden from the foundation of the world.”

To discern the meaning of a proverb and a parable, the sayings of the wise and their riddles.

Then Balaam uttered his oracle, saying,“ Balak, the king of Moab, brought me from Aram, out of the mountains of the east, saying,‘ Come, pronounce a curse on Jacob for me; come, denounce Israel.’

With him I will speak face to face, openly, and not in riddles; and he will see the form of the LORD. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?”

Toward the end of their rule, when rebellious acts are complete, a rash and deceitful king will arise.

Then I said,“ O sovereign LORD! They are saying of me,‘ Does he not simply speak in eloquent figures of speech?’”

So then whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private room s will be proclaimed from the housetops.

Therefore, since we have such a hope, we behave with great boldness,

He replied,“ You have been given the opportunity to know the secrets of the kingdom of heaven, but they have not.For whoever has will be given more, and will have an abundance. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.For this reason I speak to them in parables: Although they see they do not see, and although they hear they do not hear nor do they understand.And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘ You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’