أَمْثَالٌ 6

١ 1 يَا ٱبْنِي، إِنْ ضَمِنْتَ صَاحِبَكَ، إِنْ صَفَّقْتَ كَفَّكَ لِغَرِيبٍ،

son: child my if to pledge to/for neighbor your to blow to/for be a stranger palm your

٢ 2 إِنْ عَلِقْتَ فِي كَلَامِ فَمِكَ، إِنْ أُخِذْتَ بِكَلَامِ فِيكَ،

to snare in/on/with word lip your to capture in/on/with word lip your

٣ 3 إِذًا فَٱفْعَلْ هَذَا يَا ٱبْنِي، وَنَجِّ نَفْسَكَ إِذَا صِرْتَ فِي يَدِ صَاحِبِكَ، ٱذْهَبْ تَرَامَ وَأَلِحَّ عَلَى صَاحِبِكَ.

to make: do this then son: child my and to rescue for to come (in): come in/on/with palm neighbor your to go: went to stamp and to be assertive neighbor your

٤ 4 لَا تُعْطِ عَيْنَيْكَ نَوْمًا، وَلَا أَجْفَانَكَ نُعَاسًا.

not to give: give sleep to/for eye your and slumber to/for eyelid your

٥ 5 نَجِّ نَفْسَكَ كَٱلظَّبْيِ مِنَ ٱلْيَدِ، كَٱلْعُصْفُورِ مِنْ يَدِ ٱلصَّيَّادِ.

to rescue like/as gazelle from hand and like/as bird from hand fowler

٦ 6 اِذْهَبْ إِلَى ٱلنَّمْلَةِ أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَسْلَانُ. تَأَمَّلْ طُرُقَهَا وَكُنْ حَكِيمًا.

to go: went to(wards) ant sluggish to see: examine way: conduct her and be wise

٧ 7 ٱلَّتِي لَيْسَ لَهَا قَائِدٌ أَوْ عَرِيفٌ أَوْ مُتَسَلِّطٌ،

which nothing to/for her chief official and to rule

٨ 8 وَتُعِدُّ فِي ٱلصَّيْفِ طَعَامَهَا، وَتَجْمَعُ فِي ٱلْحَصَادِ أُكْلَهَا.

to establish: prepare in/on/with summer food: bread her to gather in/on/with harvest food her

٩ 9 إِلَى مَتَى تَنَامُ أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَسْلَانُ؟ مَتَى تَنْهَضُ مِنْ نَوْمِكَ؟

till how sluggish to lie down: lay down how to arise: rise from sleep your

١٠ 10 قَلِيلُ نَوْمٍ بَعْدُ قَلِيلُ نُعَاسٍ، وَطَيُّ ٱلْيَدَيْنِ قَلِيلًا لِلرُّقُودِ،

little sleep little slumber little folding hand to/for to lie down: sleep

١١ 11 فَيَأْتِي فَقْرُكَ كَسَاعٍ وَعَوَزُكَ كَغَازٍ.

and to come (in): come like/as to go: follow poverty your and need your like/as man shield

١٢ 12 اَلرَّجُلُ ٱللَّئِيمُ، ٱلرَّجُلُ ٱلْأَثِيمُ يَسْعَى بِٱعْوِجَاجِ ٱلْفَمِ.

man Belial: worthless man evil: wickedness to go: walk crookedness lip: word

١٣ 13 يَغْمِزُ بِعَيْنَيْهِ. يَقُولُ بِرِجْلِهِ. يُشِيرُ بِأَصَابِعِهِ.

to wink (in/on/with eye his *Q(K)*) to rub (in/on/with foot his *Q(K)*) to show in/on/with finger his

١٤ 14 فِي قَلْبِهِ أَكَاذِيبُ. يَخْتَرِعُ ٱلشَّرَّ فِي كُلِّ حِينٍ. يَزْرَعُ خُصُومَاتٍ.

perversity in/on/with heart his to plow/plot bad: evil in/on/with all time (contention *Q(K)*) to send: depart

١٥ 15 لِأَجْلِ ذَلِكَ بَغْتَةً تُفَاجِئُهُ بَلِيَّتُهُ. فِي لَحْظَةٍ يَنْكَسِرُ وَلَا شِفَاءَ.

upon so suddenly to come (in): come calamity his suddenness to break and nothing healing

١٦ 16 هَذِهِ ٱلسِّتَّةُ يُبْغِضُهَا ٱلرَّبُّ، وَسَبْعَةٌ هِيَ مَكْرَهَةُ نَفْسِهِ:

six they(fem.) to hate LORD and seven (abomination *Q(K)*) soul: myself his

١٧ 17 عُيُونٌ مُتَعَالِيَةٌ، لِسَانٌ كَاذِبٌ، أَيْدٍ سَافِكَةٌ دَمًا بَرِيئًا،

eye to exalt tongue deception and hand to pour: kill blood innocent

١٨ 18 قَلْبٌ يُنْشِئُ أَفْكَارًا رَدِيئَةً، أَرْجُلٌ سَرِيعَةُ ٱلْجَرَيَانِ إِلَى ٱلسُّوءِ،

heart to plow/plot plot evil: wickedness foot to hasten to/for to run: run to/for distress: evil

١٩ 19 شَاهِدُ زُورٍ يَفُوهُ بِٱلْأَكَاذِيبِ، وَزَارِعُ خُصُومَاتٍ بَيْنَ إِخْوَةٍ.

to breathe lie witness deception and to send: depart strife between brother: male-sibling

٢٠ 20 يَا ٱبْنِي، ٱحْفَظْ وَصَايَا أَبِيكَ وَلَا تَتْرُكْ شَرِيعَةَ أُمِّكَ.

to watch son: child my commandment father your and not to leave instruction mother your

٢١ 21 اُرْبُطْهَا عَلَى قَلْبِكَ دَائِمًا. قَلِّدْ بِهَا عُنُقَكَ.

to conspire them upon heart your continually to bind them upon neck your

٢٢ 22 إِذَا ذَهَبْتَ تَهْدِيكَ. إِذَا نِمْتَ تَحْرُسُكَ، وَإِذَا ٱسْتَيْقَظْتَ فَهِيَ تُحَدِّثُكَ.

in/on/with to go: walk you to lead [obj] you in/on/with to lie down: lay down you to keep: guard upon you and to awake he/she/it to muse you

٢٣ 23 لِأَنَّ ٱلْوَصِيَّةَ مِصْبَاحٌ، وَٱلشَّرِيعَةَ نُورٌ، وَتَوْبِيخَاتِ ٱلْأَدَبِ طَرِيقُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ.

for lamp commandment and instruction light and way: conduct life argument discipline

٢٤ 24 لِحِفْظِكَ مِنَ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ ٱلشِّرِّيرَةِ، مِنْ مَلَقِ لِسَانِ ٱلْأَجْنَبِيَّةِ.

to/for to keep: guard you from woman bad: evil from smoothness tongue foreign

٢٥ 25 لَا تَشْتَهِيَنَّ جَمَالَهَا بِقَلْبِكَ، وَلَا تَأْخُذْكَ بِهُدُبِهَا.

not to desire beauty her in/on/with heart your and not to take: take you in/on/with eyelid her

٢٦ 26 لِأَنَّهُ بِسَبَبِ ٱمْرَأَةٍ زَانِيَةٍ يَفْتَقِرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ إِلَى رَغِيفِ خُبْزٍ، وَٱمْرَأَةُ رَجُلٍ آخَرَ تَقْتَنِصُ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلْكَرِيمَةَ.

for about/through/for woman to fornicate till talent food: bread and woman man: husband soul: life precious to hunt

٢٧ 27 أَيَأْخُذُ إِنْسَانٌ نَارًا فِي حِضْنِهِ وَلَا تَحْتَرِقُ ثِيَابُهُ؟

to snatch up man fire in/on/with bosom: lap his and garment his not to burn

٢٨ 28 أَوَ يَمْشِي إِنْسَانٌ عَلَى ٱلْجَمْرِ وَلَا تَكْتَوِي رِجْلَاهُ؟

if to go: walk man upon [the] coal and foot his not to burn

٢٩ 29 هَكَذَا مَنْ يَدْخُلُ عَلَى ٱمْرَأَةِ صَاحِبِهِ. كُلُّ مَنْ يَمَسُّهَا لَا يَكُونُ بَرِيئًا.

so [the] to come (in): come to(wards) woman: wife neighbor his not to clear all [the] to touch in/on/with her

٣٠ 30 لَا يَسْتَخِفُّونَ بِٱلسَّارِقِ وَلَوْ سَرِقَ لِيُشْبِعَ نَفْسَهُ وَهُوَ جَوْعَانٌ.

not to despise to/for thief for to steal to/for to fill soul: appetite his for be hungry

٣١ 31 إِنْ وُجِدَ يَرُدُّ سَبْعَةَ أَضْعَافٍ، وَيُعْطِي كُلَّ قِنْيَةِ بَيْتِهِ.

and to find to complete sevenfold [obj] all substance house: home his to give: give

٣٢ 32 أَمَّا ٱلزَّانِي بِٱمْرَأَةٍ فَعَدِيمُ ٱلْعَقْلِ. ٱلْمُهْلِكُ نَفْسَهُ هُوَ يَفْعَلُهُ.

to commit adultery woman lacking heart to ruin soul: myself his he/she/it to make: do her

٣٣ 33 ضَرْبًا وَخِزْيًا يَجِدُ، وَعَارُهُ لَا يُمْحَى.

plague and dishonor to find and reproach his not to wipe

٣٤ 34 لِأَنَّ ٱلْغَيْرَةَ هِيَ حَمِيَّةُ ٱلرَّجُلِ، فَلَا يُشْفِقُ فِي يَوْمِ ٱلِٱنْتِقَامِ.

for jealousy rage great man and not to spare in/on/with day vengeance

٣٥ 35 لَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَى فِدْيَةٍ مَّا، وَلَا يَرْضَى وَلَوْ أَكْثَرْتَ ٱلرَّشْوَةَ.

not to lift: kindness face: kindness all ransom and not be willing for to multiply bribe