প্রবচন 8
It is as if wisdom, with great understanding [of many things], is calling [PRS] out [to people].
Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.
[Wisdom also stands] at the city gates and shouts loudly,
“I am calling to everyone! I am shouting loudly to all people!
5 ৫ যিসকল শিক্ষিত নহয়, তেওঁলোকে সুবুদ্ধিক বুজা উচিত, আৰু যিসকলে জ্ঞানক ঘিণ কৰে, তেওঁলোকৰ সুবিবেচনাৰ হৃদয় থকা উচিত।
You people who do not know how to do things that are smart to do, get sound judgment; you foolish people, get good understanding!
Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.
I speak what is true; I detest speaking [MTY] what is false/deceptive.
Everything that I say is honest; there is nothing that I say that deceives [people].
9 ৯ যি সকলে বুজি পাই, তেওঁলোকৰ কাৰণে মোৰ কথাবোৰ স্পষ্ট; যি সকলে জ্ঞান লাভ কৰে, তেওঁলোকৰ কাৰণে মোৰ কথাবোৰ সত্য।
My words are clear to those who have good sense; those who are wise know that what I say is right.
[If someone offers you the kind of teaching I give] or offers you silver, choose my teaching. [If he offers to show you how to be wise] or offers you gold, choose to know how to be wise,
because wisdom is more valuable than jewels. Nothing that you desire [is as valuable] as being wise.
I, wisdom, and understanding of what is smart to do, cannot be separated. We are like two people who live in the same house. I know how to be wise and how to make smart decisions.
[All the people] who revere Yahweh hate evil. I, wisdom, hate [people who are] proud and [people] who think they are more important [than others]. I hate [people who] behave in an evil way and those who say things to deceive [others].
I give [people] good advice and I enable them to do things that are wise. I understand how things really are, and I am strong.
15 ১৫ মোৰ দ্বাৰাই ৰজাসকলে ৰাজত্ব কৰে, অভিজাত লোকসকল আৰু ন্যায়েৰে যিসকল লোকে শাসন কৰে, সেইসকলো মোৰেই।
When kings are wise, they rule [well]; and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just/fair.
Rulers govern their people with the help of me, wisdom, and those who have authority decide things fairly/just with my help.
17 ১৭ যিসকলে মোক প্ৰেম কৰে, ময়ো তেওঁলোকক প্ৰেম কৰোঁ, আৰু যিসকলে মোক আগ্রহেৰে বিচাৰে, তেওঁলোকে মোক বিচাৰি পায়।
I, [wisdom], love [all] those who love me, and [all] those who truly seek me [will] find me.
I enable [people] to become rich and to be honored; [I enable them to have] wealth that will last and to be successful.
What I can give people is more valuable than fine/pure gold and the best silver.
I always do what is righteous and just/fair.
I give wealth to those who love me; I fill their houses with valuable things.
Yahweh created me, [wisdom], when he began [to create the world]; he created me [to do my work] before he created anything else.
He appointed me long ago, before he created the earth.
I was born before the oceans were [created], when there were no springs from which water flowed.
I was born before the hills and mountains were formed;
26 ২৬ যিহোৱাই পৃথিৱী বা পথাৰবোৰ সৃষ্টিৰ কৰাৰ আগতে, এনেকি পৃথিৱীত উৎপন্ন হোৱা প্রথম ধূলিৰ আগতে মোৰ জন্ম হৈছিল।
[I, wisdom], was born before Yahweh made the earth, before he made the fields and the soil on the earth.
27 ২৭ তেওঁ স্বৰ্গ স্থাপন কৰা সময়ত, আৰু তেওঁ অগাধ জলত দিগন্তৰ সীমা নিৰূপণ কৰোঁতে, মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ।
I was there when Yahweh put the sky in place, when he marked the place [in the distance] where the sky and the oceans [seem to] come together.
28 ২৮ তেওঁ যেতিয়া আকাশ-মণ্ডল স্থাপন কৰিছিল, আৰু যেতিয়া গভীৰ ভুমুকবোৰ সৃষ্টি কৰিছিল, তেতিয়া মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ।
I was there when Yahweh put the clouds above [the earth] and when he caused the water that is inside the earth to be secure.
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।
I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas, so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries, and when he put down the foundations which support 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।
I was at the side of Yahweh, the master worker (OR, as though I was his child). I caused him to be happy every day, and I was always rejoicing when I was with him.
I was delighted with the world that he created; I was happy with the people whom he created, too.
So, [you people who are like] my sons, listen to me. [I am] pleased with [all] those who obey my teachings.
Listen [carefully] to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
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।
[I am] pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting [for me to come out].
Those who find me will have [a long] life, and Yahweh [will] be pleased with them.
36 ৩৬ কিন্তু যি জনে মোক বিচাৰি নাপায়, তেওঁ নিজৰ অনিষ্ট কৰে। যিসকলোৱে মোক ঘিণ কৰে, তেওঁলোকে মৃত্যুক ভাল পায়।”
But those who stray away from me [just] harm themselves. All those who hate me, [it is as though] [IRO] they are loving death.”
