প্রবচন 24
Do not envy evil people; do not desire to associate with them,
because they are [constantly] thinking about acting violently, and whenever they speak [MTY], they talk about (causing trouble/hurting someone).
People make good houses (OR, families) by doing what is wise, and they make their houses (OR, families) strong by [heeding] good advice.
By using good sense, [they are able to buy] valuable and beautiful things and put them in the rooms of their houses.
Being wise is better than being strong/powerful; those who know [many things can accomplish more] than those who are [very] strong.
Leaders can fight battles if they have wise advisors, and they win those battles if they have many good advisors.
Foolish people cannot understand wise sayings/talk; at public meetings they are not [able to] say anything [that is useful].
Those who are [always] planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.
It is sinful to plan to do foolish things, and people hate those who make fun of [everything that is good].
If you [act as though] you are helpless when you have troubles, you are [truly very] weak.
11 ১১ মৃত্যুলৈ লৈ যোৱা লোকসকলক ৰক্ষা কৰা, আৰু বধ কৰিবলৈ নিওতে যিসকল হতভম্ব হয় তেওঁলোকক তুমি যদি পাৰা ঘূৰাই আনা।
[If it is unjustly decided] that someone must be executed, [try hard to] rescue them [DOU].
12 ১২ তুমি যদি কোৱা, “আমি এই বিষয়ে একো নাজানো।” তুমি কি কৈছা? সেই বিষয়ে যি জনাই হৃদয় পৰীক্ষা কৰে, তেওঁ জানো নুবুজে? আৰু যিজনাই তোমাৰ জীৱন ৰক্ষা কৰে, তেওঁ জানো এই বিষয়ে নাজানে? ঈশ্বৰে মানুহক কৰ্ম অনুসাৰে জানো ফল নিদিয়ে?
If you say, “I did not know anything about it, [so (it is not my concern/I did not try to help him)],” remember that God knows what we have done, and he knows what we were thinking [IDM, RHQ], and he will certainly [RHQ] repay us as we deserve for what we have done or for not doing what we should have done.
My child/son, eat honey, because it is good [for you]; the honey that drips from honeycombs tastes [very] sweet.
14 ১৪ তেনেকৈ প্ৰজ্ঞা তোমাৰ আত্মাৰ বাবে তুমি যদি তাক বিচাৰি পোৱা, তেনেহ’লে তাত তোমাৰ ভবিষ্যত আছে, আৰু তোমাৰ আশা খণ্ডন কৰা নহব।
Similarly, being wise is good for your soul; if you become wise, you will be [happy in] the future, and [God] will certainly [do for you what you are] confidently expecting him to do [LIT].
15 ১৫ ন্যায় কাৰ্য কৰাসকলৰ ঘৰ যিজনে আক্রমণ কৰে, তেনে দুষ্ট মানুহৰ দৰে তুমি মিছা কথা নকবা, তেওঁলোকৰ ঘৰ ধ্বংস নকৰিবা।
Do not be like wicked people who [hide and] wait to break into the houses of righteous/good [people] and rob/steal things.
16 ১৬ কাৰণ যিসকলে ন্যায় কাৰ্য কৰে, তেওঁলোক সাতবাৰ পৰিলেও, তেওঁ পুনৰ উঠিব। কিন্তু দুষ্ট লোক দুৰ্যোগত পৰি বিনষ্ট হয়।
[Even if] good people fall down seven/many times, they [always] stand/get up again, but when a disaster happens to wicked [people], it ruins/destroys them.
17 ১৭ যেতিয়া তোমাৰ শত্ৰুৰ পতন হয়, তেতিয়া আনন্দ নকৰিবা, আৰু যেতিয়া তেওঁ উজুতি খায়, তেতিয়া তোমাৰ মনক উল্লাসিত হ’বলৈ নিদিবা।
Do not be happy when something bad happens to one of your enemies; do not rejoice when he stumbles and falls,
because Yahweh will know what you are thinking, and he will not like it, and [as a result] he will not punish that enemy of yours.
Do not become angry/upset about those who do what is evil, and do not [SYN] envy them,
because [nothing good] will happen to wicked people; they are [like] a lamp that will soon be extinguished [MET].
21 ২১ হে মোৰ পুত্র, যিহোৱালৈ ভয় কৰা, আৰু ৰজাক ভয় কৰা। তেওঁলোকৰ বিৰুদ্ধে বিদ্রোহ কৰা সকলৰ সৈতে সহযোগ নকৰিবা।
My child/son, revere Yahweh and [also] honor the king, and do not associate with people who want to rebel against either of them,
because those people will suddenly experience disasters; and no one knows [RHQ] what great disasters that God or the king can cause to happen to them.
Here are more things that wise [people] have said: It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly [IDM].
If they say to people who are guilty, “You (are innocent/have not done something that is wrong),” [even] people in other nations will curse and despise them,
25 ২৫ কিন্তু যিসকলে দুষ্টলোকক নিন্দা কৰে, তেওঁলোক আনন্দিত হ’ব, আৰু তেওঁলোকলৈ ওপৰত উত্তম আশীৰ্ব্বাদ আহে।
but if judges say that guilty people must be punished, things will go well for those judges, and (they will receive blessings/God will bless them).
Those who answer others honestly show that they are truly their friends [IDM].
27 ২৭ তোমাৰ বাহিৰৰ কাম প্রস্তুত কৰা, আৰু নিজৰ বাবে মুকলি ঠাইত সকলো বস্তু যুগুত কৰা, আৰু তাৰ পাছতহে তোমাৰ গৃহ নিৰ্মাণ কৰা।
First, do the work [that needs to be done] outside [your house], and prepare your fields, [and then plant things], and after you finish doing that, build your house.
[In the courtroom] do not testify against someone when you have no reason to do that, and do not [try to] deceive [people] by what you say [MTY].
29 ২৯ এইদৰে নকবা, “তেওঁ মোলৈ যিদৰে কৰিলে, মইয়ো তালৈ সেইদৰেই কৰিম; তেওঁ যি কৰিলে তাৰ প্রতিফল মই তেওঁক দিম।”
Do not say, “I will do to him what he did to me; I will pay him back for [the bad things that] he did to me.”
One day I walked by the vineyards of a lazy man, a man who did not have good sense.
31 ৩১ চাৰিওফালে কাঁইটীয়া বন গজিছিল, গোটেই পথাৰ কাঁইটে ঢাকি ধৰিছিল, আৰু সীমাত থকা শিলৰ বেৰা ভাঙি গৈছিল।
I was surprised to see that the fields were full of all kinds of thorny bushes, and the stone wall [around the garden] had (collapsed/fallen down).
When I saw that, I thought about it, and I learned this:
[If you spend a lot of time] sleeping and napping and folding your hands while you rest,
[soon] you will become poor; [it will be as though] [PRS, SIM] a bandit who had a weapon in his hand [attacked you and stole all that you had].
