প্রবচন 23
1 ১ যেতিয়া তুমি কোনো শাসনকৰ্ত্তাৰ সৈতে ভোজনত বহা, তেতিয়া তোমাৰ সন্মুখত কোন আছে সাৱধানে লক্ষ্য কৰিবা।
When thou sittest to eat with a ruler, Consider diligently him that is before thee;
And put a knife to thy throat, If thou be a man given to appetite.
Be not desirous of his dainties; Seeing they are deceitful food.
Weary not thyself to be rich; Cease from thine own wisdom.
5 ৫ যেতিয়া তোমাৰ দৃষ্টি ধনত পৰে, সেয়ে গুচি যায়, আৰু হঠাতে ডেউকা লগাই, আৰু ঈগলৰ দৰে আকাশলৈ উৰি যায়।
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For [riches] certainly make themselves wings, Like an eagle that flieth toward heaven.
6 ৬ তোমাৰ আহাৰলৈ কোনো লোকে বহু সময় চাই থাকিলে, পাপী মানুহৰ আহাৰ ভোজন নকৰিবা, আৰু তেওঁৰ উত্তম খোৱা বস্তুলৈ হেঁপাহ নকৰিবা;
Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye, Neither desire thou his dainties:
7 ৭ কাৰণ তেওঁ এনে এজন মানুহ যি তোমাৰ আহাৰৰ হিচাপ লয়। তেওঁ তোমাক কয়, “ভোজন-পান কৰা!” কিন্তু তেওঁৰ হৃদয় তোমাৰ সৈতে নাথাকে।
For as he thinketh within himself, so is he: Eat and drink, saith he to thee; But his heart is not with thee.
The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up, And lose thy sweet words.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool; For he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Remove not the ancient landmark; And enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
For their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their cause against thee.
Apply thy heart unto instruction, And thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child; [For] if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
My son, if thy heart be wise, My heart will be glad, even mine:
Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.
Let not thy heart envy sinners; But [be thou] in the fear of Jehovah all the day long:
For surely there is a reward; And thy hope shall not be cut off.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, And guide thy heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers, Among gluttonous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty; And drowsiness will clothe [a man] with rags.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; [Yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
24 ২৪ ন্যায় কাৰ্য কৰা জনৰ পিতৃ অতিশয় উল্লাসিত হয়, আৰু জ্ঞানী পুত্ৰৰ জন্মদাতাই তেওঁৰ বাবে আনন্দ কৰিব।
The father of the righteous will greatly rejoice; And he that begetteth a wise child will have joy of him.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, And let her that bare thee rejoice.
My son, give me thy heart; And let thine eyes delight in my ways.
For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.
Yea, she lieth in wait as a robber, And increaseth the treacherous among men.
29 ২৯ কাৰ দুৰ্দশা আছে? কাৰ দুখ আছে? কোনে কাজিয়া কৰে? কোনে অভিযোগ কৰে? কোনে অকাৰণে মাৰ খায়? কাৰ চকু ৰঙা হয়?
Who hath woe? who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? Who hath complaining? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.
31 ৩১ যেতিয়া দ্ৰাক্ষাৰস ৰঙা হৈ থাকে, পাত্ৰত দগমগায়, আৰু সহজে পেটলৈ যায়, তেতিয়া তালৈ দৃষ্টি নকৰিবা।
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, When it sparkleth in the cup, When it goeth down smoothly:
At the last it biteth like a serpent, And stingeth like an adder.
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, Or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
35 ৩৫ তুমি কবা, “তেওঁলোকে মোক মাৰিলে!” কিন্তু মই আঘাত পোৱা নাই, তেওঁলোকে মোক প্ৰহাৰ কৰিলে, কিন্তু মই অনুভব কৰা নাই। মই যেতিয়া সাৰ পাম? তেতিয়া মই পুনৰ দ্রাক্ষাৰস পান কৰিম।”
They have stricken me, [shalt thou say], and I was not hurt; They have beaten me, and I felt it not: When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
