箴言の教えは現代でも通用しますか

It's fine to carry the question unresolved for a while. I heard a sermon on precisely this and I'll summarize how it was framed.

The original language has a wider range of meaning than the English suggests.

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Traditions answer this very differently, so ask in your own community too. I walked the same road. These days I care more about the question than the answer. Knowing the situation of the community it was written for makes this much clearer.

The short answer is that scripture itself does not settle this; several readings coexist. Note that interpretation has already entered at the translation stage here.

質問の前提そのものを一度疑ってみると、別の道が開けるかもしれません。教派によって答えが大きく違う問いなので、ご自身の教会でも聞いてみてください。

I've written this confidently but I would genuinely welcome disagreement. I walked the same road. These days I care more about the question than the answer.

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Honestly, I don't think a clean answer to this exists. Traditions answer this very differently, so ask in your own community too.

I'm a minister and my honest answer to this is that I don't know. This may be a minority reading, but here is how I take it. I'll list some sources below in case you want to go further.

If you're not in a hurry, come back to this in a year. I'm a minister and my honest answer to this is that I don't know.

多くの研究者は比喩的な表現として理解しています。文字通りに読む立場も少数ながらあります。教派によって答えが大きく違う問いなので、ご自身の教会でも聞いてみてください。質問の前提そのものを一度疑ってみると、別の道が開けるかもしれません。

私は牧師ですが、この問いには「分かりません」と答えることにしています。急いで結論を出さず、しばらく問いを抱えたままにしておく手もあります。

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