Malasu 23
1 Di da mimogo dunu ali gilisili ha: i nasea, amo esega noga: le dawa: ma.
If you sit to sup at the table of a prince, consider attentively the things set before you:
2 Di da ha: i manu bagade manusa: dawa: sea, di ha: i buludili mae moma.
and apply your hand, knowing that it behoves you to prepare such [meats]: but if you are very insatiable,
3 E da dia hou ogogole adoba: sa: besa: le, mae uasuli moma.
desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
4 Di da noga: le molole dawa: ma. Di da liligi bagade gagumu hanaiba: le hawa: hamonana, dia gasa gufia: ne gala: mu da defea hame.
If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man; but refrain yourself in your wisdom.
5 Dia muni amo ea ebelebe da hedolodafa si abo gelebe agoai ba: sa. Amola amo da buhiba ea ougia hinabo aligili wa: leahoabe agoai.
If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
6 Di da gegenane uasuli nasu dunu amo ea ha: i manu ida: iwane mae uasuli moma.
Sup not with an envious man, neither desire you his meats:
7 Amo gegenane uasuli nasu dunu da eso huluane amo ha: i manu ea bidi bagadega lai amo dawa: lala. E da aowalale amane sia: sa, “Defea! Bu bagade ha: i amola waini moma!” Be e da ogogole sia: sa. Ea houdafa da ea asigi dawa: su defele gala.
so he eats and drinks as if any one should swallow a hair, and do not bring him in to yourself, nor eat your morsel with him:
8 Di da dia mai liligi amo bu isole fasimu. Amola dia ema dabuagado ofa: su sia: da ogogole ofa: su sia: udigili ha: digi agoai ba: mu.
for he will vomit it up, and spoil your fair words.
9 Di gagaoui dunuma moloi dawa: su sia: amo mae sia: ma. E da dia sia: ida: iwane dawa: mu da hamedei galebe.
Say nothing in the ears of a fool, lest at any time he sneer at your wise words.
10 Musa: soge alalo legei amo maedafa gua: ma. Amola guluba: mano ilia soge amo mae wamolama.
Remove not the ancient landmarks; and enter not upon the possession of the fatherless:
11 Bai Hina Gode da ilima gasa bagade Gaga: su dunu esala. E da ilimagale, dima fofada: mu.
for the Lord is their redeemer; he is mighty, and will plead their cause with you.
12 Dia olelesu dunu amo ea olelebe hamugini nabima amola noga: le hamoma.
Apply your heart to instruction, and prepare your ears for words of discretion.
13 Dia mano da wadela: le hamosea, ema hedolo se ima. Dawa: ma: ne fasea, amo mano da hame bogomu.
Refrain not from chastening a child; for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
For you shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from death. (Sheol h7585)
15 Nagofe! Di da dawa: ida: iwane lasea, na da hahawane bagade ba: mu.
Son, if your heart be wise, you shall also gladden my heart;
16 Di da dawa: su ida: iwane sia: sia: sea, na da dima nodone dawa: mu.
and your lips shall converse with my lips, if they be right.
17 Wadela: i hamosu dunu ilia hamobe amoga hamomusa: , mae mudale hanama. Be eso huluane Hina Godema nodone dawa: ma.
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the Lord all the day.
18 Amaiwane hamosea, di da hahawane esalumu.
For if you should keep these things, you shall have posterity; and your hope shall not be removed.
19 Nagofe! Nabima! Molole dawa: ma amola dia esalusu noga: le ouligima.
Hear, [my] son, and be wise, and rightly direct the thoughts of your heart.
20 Di da adini bagade nasu dunu amola ha: i fufuluba nasu dunu ilima mae gilisima.
Be not a wine-bibber, neither continue long at feasts, and purchases of flesh:
21 Feloai dunu amola ha: i fufuluba nasu dunu da hedolo liligi hame gagui dunu agoai ba: mu. Dia da ha: i nasu amola golasu amo fawane hamosea, di da gagadelai abula amo fawane ga: i ba: mu.
for every drunkard and whoremonger shall be poor; and every sluggard shall clothe himself with tatters and ragged garments.
22 Nagofe! Dia ada ea sia: noga: le nabima! E da di hame hamoi ganiaba, di da hame esalala: loba. Dia ame da da: i hamosea, e da di noga: le ouligiba: le, ema nodoma.
Listen, [my] son, to your father which begot you, and despise not [your mother] because she is grown old.
23 Moloidafa hou, olelesu, molole dawa: su amola asigi dawa: su ida: iwane gala. Amo liligi bidiga lamu da defea. Be lai dagoiba: le, eno dunuma mae alofele lama. Bai amo liligi lasu defei da gadodafa.
24 Dunu moloidafa ea ada da hahawane bagade. Dia gofe da molole dawa: su hou lai galea, di da ema nodone dawa: mu da defea.
A righteous father brings up [his children] well; and his soul rejoices over a wise son.
25 Nagofe! Dia ada amola ame da dia hou nodone ba: ma: ne, hou moloiwane hamoma. Dia ame hahawane ba: ma: ne hamoma.
Let your father and your mother rejoice over you, and let her that bore you be glad.
26 Nagofe! Hamugini noga: le nabima. Na esalebe defele, dia esaloma.
[My] son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
27 Uda hina: da: i bidi lasu amola eno wadela: i hamosu uda da bogosu sani agoai gala.
For a strange house is a vessel full of holes; and a strange well is narrow.
28 Ilia da wamolasu dunu agoane di wadela: lesimusa: desega lela. Ilia agoane hamobeba: le, dunu bagohame da ilia udama baligi fa: sa.
For such a one shall perish suddenly; and every transgressor shall be cut off.
29 Nowa dunu da waini hano bagade nasea amola gaheabolo adini hogoi helesea, e da bagade da: i diosa amola mosolasu hamosa, amola eso huluane egasa. Ea si da maga: me gasagala: i amola ea da: i da udigili fofonomane gagai.
Who [has] woe? who trouble? who [has] quarrels? and who vexations and disputes? who [has] bruises without a cause? whose eyes are livid?
Are not those of them that stay long at wine? [are] not [those] of them that haunt [the places] where banquets are? Be not drunk with wine; but converse with just men, and converse [with them] openly.
31 Waini hano da ulasuyei amola faigelei gelabo ganodini bubunuma heda: sa amola noga: le da: gisa. Be dafama: ne adoba: sa: besa: le, waini hano manusa: mae magesa: ima.
For if you should set your eyes on bowls and cups, you shall afterwards go more naked than a pestle.
32 Waini hano nalu, diahabe, wa: legadole, di da saya: bega gasomai agoai ba: mu.
But at last [such a one] stretches himself out as one struck by a serpent, and venom is diffused through him as by a horned serpent.
33 Dia da: i da felowai agoai ba: le, noga: le dawa: le sia: mu gogolei ba: mu.
Whenever your eyes shall behold a strange woman, then your mouth shall speak perverse things.
34 Di da dusagai ganodini fila heda: le ahoasea da dia hagomo sasaleabe, amo agoai ba: mu.
And you shall lie as in the midst of the sea, and as a pilot in a great storm.
35 Di da agoane sia: mu, “Na da enoga fabela: ? Be amo na da gogolei. Abuliba: le na da noga: le hame nedigisa. Na da adini eno manu galebe.”
And you shall say, They struck me, and I was not pained; and they mocked me, and I knew it not: when will it be morning, that I may go and seek those with whom I may go in company?
