প্রবচন 8
Doth not wisdom cry, And understanding put forth her voice?
On the top of high places by the way, Where the paths meet, she standeth;
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, At the coming in at the doors, she crieth aloud:
Unto you, O men, I call; And my voice is to the sons of men.
5 ৫ যিসকল শিক্ষিত নহয়, তেওঁলোকে সুবুদ্ধিক বুজা উচিত, আৰু যিসকলে জ্ঞানক ঘিণ কৰে, তেওঁলোকৰ সুবিবেচনাৰ হৃদয় থকা উচিত।
O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
Hear, for I will speak excellent things; And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
For my mouth shall utter truth; And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
9 ৯ যি সকলে বুজি পাই, তেওঁলোকৰ কাৰণে মোৰ কথাবোৰ স্পষ্ট; যি সকলে জ্ঞান লাভ কৰে, তেওঁলোকৰ কাৰণে মোৰ কথাবোৰ সত্য।
They are all plain to him that understandeth, And right to them that find knowledge.
Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.
For wisdom is better than rubies; And all the things that may be desired are not to be compared unto it.
I wisdom have made prudence my dwelling, And find out knowledge [and] discretion.
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil: Pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, And the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge: I am understanding; I have might.
15 ১৫ মোৰ দ্বাৰাই ৰজাসকলে ৰাজত্ব কৰে, অভিজাত লোকসকল আৰু ন্যায়েৰে যিসকল লোকে শাসন কৰে, সেইসকলো মোৰেই।
By me kings reign, And princes decree justice.
By me princes rule, And nobles, [even] all the judges of the earth.
17 ১৭ যিসকলে মোক প্ৰেম কৰে, ময়ো তেওঁলোকক প্ৰেম কৰোঁ, আৰু যিসকলে মোক আগ্রহেৰে বিচাৰে, তেওঁলোকে মোক বিচাৰি পায়।
I love them that love me; And those that seek me diligently shall find me.
Riches and honor are with me; [Yea], durable wealth and righteousness.
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.
I walk in the way of righteousness, In the midst of the paths of justice;
That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance, And that I may fill their treasuries.
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, Before his works of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, Before the earth was.
When there were no depths, I was brought forth, When there were no fountains abounding with water.
Before the mountains were settled, Before the hills was I brought forth;
26 ২৬ যিহোৱাই পৃথিৱী বা পথাৰবোৰ সৃষ্টিৰ কৰাৰ আগতে, এনেকি পৃথিৱীত উৎপন্ন হোৱা প্রথম ধূলিৰ আগতে মোৰ জন্ম হৈছিল।
While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, Nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
27 ২৭ তেওঁ স্বৰ্গ স্থাপন কৰা সময়ত, আৰু তেওঁ অগাধ জলত দিগন্তৰ সীমা নিৰূপণ কৰোঁতে, মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ।
When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
28 ২৮ তেওঁ যেতিয়া আকাশ-মণ্ডল স্থাপন কৰিছিল, আৰু যেতিয়া গভীৰ ভুমুকবোৰ সৃষ্টি কৰিছিল, তেতিয়া মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ।
When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,
29 ২৯ সাগৰ সীমা নিৰূপণ কৰাৰ আগেয়ে মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ, সেয়ে সাগৰৰ পানী তেওঁ আজ্ঞা কৰা ঠাইৰ বাহিৰে আন ঠাইত যেন প্লাৱিত নহয়। আৰু যেতিয়া তেওঁ পৃথিবীৰ মূল ক’ত স্থাপন হব আদেশ দিছিল।
When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;
30 ৩০ তেতিয়া মই তেওঁৰ লগত প্ৰধান শিল্পকাৰ ৰূপে আছিলোঁ, আৰু মই দিনৰ পাচত দিন তেওঁত আনন্দ কৰিছিলোঁ, সদায় তেওঁৰ আগত প্রশংসা কৰিছিলোঁ।
Then I was by him, [as] a master workman; And I was daily [his] delight, Rejoicing always before him,
Rejoicing in his habitable earth; And my delight was with the sons of men.
Now therefore, [my] sons, hearken unto me; For blessed are they that keep my ways.
Hear instruction, and be wise, And refuse it not.
34 ৩৪ যিজনে মোৰ কথা শুনে, তেওঁ আনন্দিত হ’ব- মোৰ দুৱাৰত প্রতি দিনে পৰ দি থাকিব, মোৰ ঘৰৰ দুৱাৰৰ কাষত মোৰ বাবে অপেক্ষা কৰি থাকিব।
Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.
For whoso findeth me findeth life, And shall obtain favor of Jehovah.
36 ৩৬ কিন্তু যি জনে মোক বিচাৰি নাপায়, তেওঁ নিজৰ অনিষ্ট কৰে। যিসকলোৱে মোক ঘিণ কৰে, তেওঁলোকে মৃত্যুক ভাল পায়।”
But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: All they that hate me love death.
