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- The Message - Remember: The duller the ax the harder the work; Use your head: The more brains, the less muscle.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 - “Stay alert. This is hazardous work I’m assigning you. You’re going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack, so don’t call attention to yourselves. Be as shrewd as a snake, inoffensive as a dove.
- 1 Corinthians 14:20 - To be perfectly frank, I’m getting exasperated with your childish thinking. How long before you grow up and use your head—your adult head? It’s all right to have a childlike unfamiliarity with evil; a simple no is all that’s needed there. But there’s far more to saying yes to something. Only mature and well-exercised intelligence can save you from falling into gullibility. It’s written in Scripture that God said, In strange tongues and from the mouths of strangers I will preach to this people, but they’ll neither listen nor believe. So where does it get you, all this speaking in tongues no one understands? It doesn’t help believers, and it only gives unbelievers something to gawk at. Plain truth-speaking, on the other hand, goes straight to the heart of believers and doesn’t get in the way of unbelievers. If you come together as a congregation and some unbelieving outsiders walk in on you as you’re all praying in tongues, unintelligible to each other and to them, won’t they assume you’ve taken leave of your senses and get out of there as fast as they can? But if some unbelieving outsiders walk in on a service where people are speaking out God’s truth, the plain words will bring them up against the truth and probe their hearts. Before you know it, they’re going to be on their faces before God, recognizing that God is among you.
- Acts 6:1 - During this time, as the disciples were increasing in numbers by leaps and bounds, hard feelings developed among the Greek-speaking believers—“Hellenists”—toward the Hebrew-speaking believers because their widows were being discriminated against in the daily food lines. So the Twelve called a meeting of the disciples. They said, “It wouldn’t be right for us to abandon our responsibilities for preaching and teaching the Word of God to help with the care of the poor. So, friends, choose seven men from among you whom everyone trusts, men full of the Holy Spirit and good sense, and we’ll assign them this task. Meanwhile, we’ll stick to our assigned tasks of prayer and speaking God’s Word.”
- Acts 6:5 - The congregation thought this was a great idea. They went ahead and chose— Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, Philip, Procorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, Nicolas, a convert from Antioch. Then they presented them to the apostles. Praying, the apostles laid on hands and commissioned them for their task.
- Acts 6:7 - The Word of God prospered. The number of disciples in Jerusalem increased dramatically. Not least, a great many priests submitted themselves to the faith. * * *
- Acts 6:8 - Stephen, brimming with God’s grace and energy, was doing wonderful things among the people, unmistakable signs that God was among them. But then some men from the meeting place whose membership was made up of freed slaves, Cyrenians, Alexandrians, and some others from Cilicia and Asia, went up against him trying to argue him down. But they were no match for his wisdom and spirit when he spoke.
- 1 Kings 3:9 - “Here’s what I want: Give me a God-listening heart so I can lead your people well, discerning the difference between good and evil. For who on their own is capable of leading your glorious people?”
- Acts 15:3 - After they were sent off and on their way, they told everyone they met as they traveled through Phoenicia and Samaria about the breakthrough to the non-Jewish outsiders. Everyone who heard the news cheered—it was terrific news!
- Acts 15:4 - When they got to Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabas were graciously received by the whole church, including the apostles and leaders. They reported on their recent journey and how God had used them to open things up to the outsiders. Some Pharisees stood up to say their piece. They had become believers, but continued to hold to the hard party line of the Pharisees. “You have to circumcise the pagan converts,” they said. “You must make them keep the Law of Moses.”
- Acts 15:6 - The apostles and leaders called a special meeting to consider the matter. The arguments went on and on, back and forth, getting more and more heated. Then Peter took the floor: “Friends, you well know that from early on God made it quite plain that he wanted the pagans to hear the Message of this good news and embrace it—and not in any secondhand or roundabout way, but firsthand, straight from my mouth. And God, who can’t be fooled by any pretense on our part but always knows a person’s thoughts, gave them the Holy Spirit exactly as he gave him to us. He treated the outsiders exactly as he treated us, beginning at the very center of who they were and working from that center outward, cleaning up their lives as they trusted and believed him.
- Acts 15:10 - “So why are you now trying to out-god God, loading these new believers down with rules that crushed our ancestors and crushed us, too? Don’t we believe that we are saved because the Master Jesus amazingly and out of sheer generosity moved to save us just as he did those from beyond our nation? So what are we arguing about?”
- Acts 15:12 - There was dead silence. No one said a word. With the room quiet, Barnabas and Paul reported matter-of-factly on the miracles and wonders God had done among the other nations through their ministry. The silence deepened; you could hear a pin drop.
- Acts 15:13 - James broke the silence. “Friends, listen. Simeon has told us the story of how God at the very outset made sure that racial outsiders were included. This is in perfect agreement with the words of the prophets: After this, I’m coming back; I’ll rebuild David’s ruined house; I’ll put all the pieces together again; I’ll make it look like new So outsiders who seek will find, so they’ll have a place to come to, All the pagan peoples included in what I’m doing. “God said it and now he’s doing it. It’s no afterthought; he’s always known he would do this.
- Acts 15:19 - “So here is my decision: We’re not going to unnecessarily burden non-Jewish people who turn to the Master. We’ll write them a letter and tell them, ‘Be careful to not get involved in activities connected with idols, to guard the morality of sex and marriage, to not serve food offensive to Jewish Christians—blood, for instance.’ This is basic wisdom from Moses, preached and honored for centuries now in city after city as we have met and kept the Sabbath.”
- Genesis 41:33 - “So, Pharaoh needs to look for a wise and experienced man and put him in charge of the country. Then Pharaoh needs to appoint managers throughout the country of Egypt to organize it during the years of plenty. Their job will be to collect all the food produced in the good years ahead and stockpile the grain under Pharaoh’s authority, storing it in the towns for food. This grain will be held back to be used later during the seven years of famine that are coming on Egypt. This way the country won’t be devastated by the famine.”
- Genesis 41:37 - This seemed like a good idea to Pharaoh and his officials.
- Genesis 41:38 - Then Pharaoh said to his officials, “Isn’t this the man we need? Are we going to find anyone else who has God’s spirit in him like this?”
- Genesis 41:39 - So Pharaoh said to Joseph, “You’re the man for us. God has given you the inside story—no one is as qualified as you in experience and wisdom. From now on, you’re in charge of my affairs; all my people will report to you. Only as king will I be over you.”
- Romans 16:19 - And so while there has never been any question about your honesty in these matters—I couldn’t be more proud of you!—I want you also to be smart, making sure every “good” thing is the real thing. Don’t be gullible in regard to smooth-talking evil. Stay alert like this, and before you know it the God of peace will come down on Satan with both feet, stomping him into the dirt. Enjoy the best of Jesus!
- 2 Chronicles 23:8 - All the Levites and officers obeyed the orders of Jehoiada the priest. Each took charge of his men, both those who came on duty on the Sabbath and those who went off duty on the Sabbath, for Jehoiada the priest hadn’t exempted any of them from duty. Then the priest armed the officers with spears and the large and small shields originally belonging to King David that were stored in The Temple of God. Well-armed, the guards took up their assigned positions for protecting the king, from one end of The Temple to the other, surrounding both Altar and Temple.
- 2 Chronicles 23:11 - Then the priest brought the prince into view, crowned him, handed him the scroll of God’s covenant, and made him king. As Jehoiada and his sons anointed him they shouted, “Long live the king!”
- Colossians 4:5 - Use your heads as you live and work among outsiders. Don’t miss a trick. Make the most of every opportunity. Be gracious in your speech. The goal is to bring out the best in others in a conversation, not put them down, not cut them out.
- Ecclesiastes 9:16 - All the same, I still say that wisdom is better than muscle, even though the wise poor man was treated with contempt and soon forgotten.
- Ecclesiastes 9:17 - The quiet words of the wise are more effective Than the ranting of a king of fools.
- Ephesians 5:17 - Don’t live carelessly, unthinkingly. Make sure you understand what the Master wants.
- James 1:5 - If you don’t know what you’re doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You’ll get his help, and won’t be condescended to when you ask for it. Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who “worry their prayers” are like wind-whipped waves. Don’t think you’re going to get anything from the Master that way, adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.
- Ecclesiastes 10:15 - A decent day’s work so fatigues fools That they can’t find their way back to town. * * *