الأمثال 5

١ 1 يَا ابْنِي أَصْغِ إِلَى حِكْمَتِي، وَأَرْهِفْ أُذُنَكَ إِلَى قَوْلِ فِطْنَتِي.

My sonne, hearken vnto my wisedome, and incline thine eare vnto my knowledge.

٢ 2 لِكَيْ تَدَّخِرَ الْفِطْنَةَ، وَتَرْعَى شَفَتَاكَ الْعِلْمَ.

That thou maiest regarde counsell, and thy lippes obserue knowledge.

٣ 3 لأَنَّ شَفَتَيِ الْمَرْأَةِ الْعَاهِرَةِ تَقْطُرَانِ شَهْداً، وَحَدِيثَهَا أَكْثَرُ نُعُومَةً مِنَ الزَّيْتِ،

For the lippes of a strange woman drop as an honie combe, and her mouth is more soft then oyle.

٤ 4 لَكِنَّ عَاقِبَتَهَا مُرَّةٌ كَالْعَلْقَمِ، حَادَّةٌ كَسَيْفٍ ذِي حَدَّيْنِ.

But the end of her is bitter as wormewood, and sharpe as a two edged sworde.

٥ 5 تَنْحَدِرُ قَدَمَاهَا إِلَى الْمَوْتِ، وَخَطْوَاتُهَا تَتَشَبَّثُ بِالْهَاوِيَةِ. (Sheol h7585)

Her feete goe downe to death, and her steps take holde on hell. (Sheol h7585)

٦ 6 لَا تَتَأَمَّلُ طَرِيقَ الْحَيَاةِ؛ تَتَرَنَّحُ خَطْوَاتُهَا وَهِيَ لَا تُدْرِكُ ذَلِكَ.

She weigheth not the way of life: her paths are moueable: thou canst not knowe them.

٧ 7 وَالآنَ أَصْغُوا إِلَيَّ أَيُّهَا الْبَنُونَ، وَلا تَهْجُرُوا كَلِمَاتِ فَمِي.

Heare yee me nowe therefore, O children, and depart not from the wordes of my mouth.

٨ 8 أَبْعِدْ طَرِيقَكَ عَنْهَا، وَلا تَقْتَرِبْ مِنْ بَابِ بَيْتِهَا،

Keepe thy way farre from her, and come not neere the doore of her house,

٩ 9 لِئَلّا تُعْطِيَ كَرَامَتَكَ لِلآخَرِينَ، وَسِنِي عُمْرِكَ لِمَنْ لَا يَرْحَمُ،

Least thou giue thine honor vnto others, and thy yeeres to the cruell:

١٠ 10 فَيَسْتَهْلِكَ الْغُرَبَاءُ ثَرْوَتَكَ حَتَّى الشِّبَعِ، وَتَضْحَى غَلَّةُ أَتْعَابِكَ فِي بَيْتِ الأَجْنَبِيِّ.

Least the stranger should be silled with thy strength, and thy labours bee in the house of a stranger,

١١ 11 فَتَنُوحَ فِي أَوَاخِرِ حَيَاتِكَ، عِنْدَ فَنَاءِ لَحْمِكَ وَجَسَدِكَ، لإِصَابَتِكَ بِأَمْرَاضٍ مُعْدِيَةٍ،

And thou mourne at thine end, (when thou hast consumed thy flesh and thy bodie)

١٢ 12 وَتَقُولَ: «كَيْفَ مَقَتُّ التَّأْدِيبَ، وَاسْتَخَفَّ قَلْبِي بِالتَّوْبِيخِ،

And say, How haue I hated instruction, and mine heart despised correction!

١٣ 13 فَلَمْ أَصْغِ إِلَى تَوْجِيهِ مُرْشِدِيَّ، وَلا اسْتَمَعْتُ إِلَى مُعَلِّمِيَّ.

And haue not obeied the voyce of them that taught mee, nor enclined mine eare to them that instructed me!

١٤ 14 حَتَّى كِدْتُ أَتْلَفُ فِي وَسَطِ الْجُمْهُورِ وَالْجَمَاعَةِ».

I was almost brought into all euil in ye mids of the Congregation and assemblie.

١٥ 15 اشْرَبْ مَاءً مِنْ جُبِّكَ، وَمِيَاهاً جَارِيَةً مِنْ بِئْرِكَ.

Drinke the water of thy cisterne, and of the riuers out of the middes of thine owne well.

١٦ 16 أَيَنْبَغِي عَلَى يَنَابِيعِكَ أَنْ تَفِيضَ إِلَى الْخَارِجِ كَأَنْهَارِ مِيَاهٍ فِي الشَّوَارِعِ؟

Let thy fountaines flow foorth, and the riuers of waters in the streetes.

١٧ 17 لِيَكُنْ أَوْلادُكَ لَكَ وَحْدَكَ، لَا نَصِيبَ لِلْغُرَبَاءِ مَعَكَ فِيهِمْ.

But let them bee thine, euen thine onely, and not the strangers with thee.

١٨ 18 لِيَكُنْ يَنْبُوعُ عِفَّتِكَ مُبَارَكاً، وَاغْتَبِطْ بِامْرَأَةِ شَبَابِكَ،

Let thy fountaine be blessed, and reioyce with the wife of thy youth.

١٩ 19 فَتَكُونَ كَالظَّبْيَةِ الْمَحْبُوبَةِ وَالْوَعْلَةِ الْبَهِيَّةِ، فَتَرْتَوِيَ مِنْ فَيْضِ فِتْنَتِهَا، وَتَظَلَّ دَائِماً أَسِيرَ حُبِّهَا.

Let her be as the louing hinde and pleasant roe: let her brests satisfie thee at all times, and delite in her loue continually.

٢٠ 20 لِمَاذَا تُوْلَعُ يَا ابْنِي بِالْمَرْأَةِ الْعَاهِرَةِ أَوْ تَحْتَضِنُ الْغَرِيبَةَ؟

For why shouldest thou delite, my sonne, in a strange woman, or embrace the bosome of a stranger?

٢١ 21 فَإِنَّ تَصَرُّفَاتِ الإِنْسَانِ مَكْشُوفَةٌ أَمَامَ عَيْنَيِ الرَّبِّ، وَهُوَ يُبْصِرُ جَمِيعَ طُرُقِهِ.

For the waies of man are before the eyes of the Lord, and he pondereth all his pathes.

٢٢ 22 آثَامُ الْمُنَافِقِ تَتَصَيَّدُهُ، وَيَعْلَقُ بِحِبَالِ خَطِيئَتِهِ.

His owne iniquities shall take the wicked himselfe, and he shall be holden with the cordes of his owne sinne.

٢٣ 23 يَمُوتُ افْتِقَاراً إِلَى التَّأْدِيبِ، وَبِحُمْقِهِ يَتَشَرَّدُ.

Hee shall die for fault of instruction, and shall goe astray through his great follie.