Proverbs 6
1 [My] son, if you become surety for your friend, you shall deliver your hand to an enemy.
| يَا ٱبْنِي، إِنْ ضَمِنْتَ صَاحِبَكَ، إِنْ صَفَّقْتَ كَفَّكَ لِغَرِيبٍ، | ١ |
2 For a man's own lips become a strong snare to him, and he is caught with the lips of his own mouth.
| إِنْ عَلِقْتَ فِي كَلَامِ فَمِكَ، إِنْ أُخِذْتَ بِكَلَامِ فِيكَ، | ٢ |
3 [My] son, do what I command you, and deliver yourself; for on your friend's account you are come into the power of evil [men]: faint not, but stir up even your friend for whom you are become surety.
| إِذًا فَٱفْعَلْ هَذَا يَا ٱبْنِي، وَنَجِّ نَفْسَكَ إِذَا صِرْتَ فِي يَدِ صَاحِبِكَ، ٱذْهَبْ تَرَامَ وَأَلِحَّ عَلَى صَاحِبِكَ. | ٣ |
4 Give not sleep to your eyes, nor slumber with your eyelids;
| لَا تُعْطِ عَيْنَيْكَ نَوْمًا، وَلَا أَجْفَانَكَ نُعَاسًا. | ٤ |
5 that you may deliver yourself as a doe out of the toils, and as a bird out of a snare.
| نَجِّ نَفْسَكَ كَٱلظَّبْيِ مِنَ ٱلْيَدِ، كَٱلْعُصْفُورِ مِنْ يَدِ ٱلصَّيَّادِ. | ٥ |
6 Go to the ant, O sluggard; and see, and emulate his ways, and become wiser than he.
| اِذْهَبْ إِلَى ٱلنَّمْلَةِ أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَسْلَانُ. تَأَمَّلْ طُرُقَهَا وَكُنْ حَكِيمًا. | ٦ |
7 For whereas he has no husbandry, nor any one to compel him, and is under no master,
| ٱلَّتِي لَيْسَ لَهَا قَائِدٌ أَوْ عَرِيفٌ أَوْ مُتَسَلِّطٌ، | ٧ |
8 he prepares food for himself in the summer, and lays by abundant store in harvest. Or go to the bee, and learn how diligent she is, and how earnestly she is engaged in her work; whose labours kings and private men use for health, and she is desired and respected by all: though weak in body, she is advanced by honouring wisdom.
| وَتُعِدُّ فِي ٱلصَّيْفِ طَعَامَهَا، وَتَجْمَعُ فِي ٱلْحَصَادِ أُكْلَهَا. | ٨ |
9 How long will you lie, O sluggard? and when will you awake out of sleep?
| إِلَى مَتَى تَنَامُ أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَسْلَانُ؟ مَتَى تَنْهَضُ مِنْ نَوْمِكَ؟ | ٩ |
10 You sleep a little, and you rest a little, and you slumber a short [time], and you fold your arms over your breast a little.
| قَلِيلُ نَوْمٍ بَعْدُ قَلِيلُ نُعَاسٍ، وَطَيُّ ٱلْيَدَيْنِ قَلِيلًا لِلرُّقُودِ، | ١٠ |
11 Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
| فَيَأْتِي فَقْرُكَ كَسَاعٍ وَعَوَزُكَ كَغَازٍ. | ١١ |
12 A foolish man and a transgressor goes in ways that are not good.
| اَلرَّجُلُ ٱللَّئِيمُ، ٱلرَّجُلُ ٱلْأَثِيمُ يَسْعَى بِٱعْوِجَاجِ ٱلْفَمِ. | ١٢ |
13 And the same winks with the eye, and makes a sign with his foot, and teaches with the beckonings of his fingers.
| يَغْمِزُ بِعَيْنَيْهِ. يَقُولُ بِرِجْلِهِ. يُشِيرُ بِأَصَابِعِهِ. | ١٣ |
14 [His] perverse heart devises evils: at all times such a one causes troubles to a city.
| فِي قَلْبِهِ أَكَاذِيبُ. يَخْتَرِعُ ٱلشَّرَّ فِي كُلِّ حِينٍ. يَزْرَعُ خُصُومَاتٍ. | ١٤ |
15 Therefore his destruction shall come suddenly; overthrow and irretrievable ruin.
| لِأَجْلِ ذَلِكَ بَغْتَةً تُفَاجِئُهُ بَلِيَّتُهُ. فِي لَحْظَةٍ يَنْكَسِرُ وَلَا شِفَاءَ. | ١٥ |
16 For he rejoices in all things which God hates, and he is ruined by reason of impurity of soul.
| هَذِهِ ٱلسِّتَّةُ يُبْغِضُهَا ٱلرَّبُّ، وَسَبْعَةٌ هِيَ مَكْرَهَةُ نَفْسِهِ: | ١٦ |
17 The eye of the haughty, a tongue unjust, hands shedding the blood of the just;
| عُيُونٌ مُتَعَالِيَةٌ، لِسَانٌ كَاذِبٌ، أَيْدٍ سَافِكَةٌ دَمًا بَرِيئًا، | ١٧ |
18 and a heart devising evil thoughts, and feet hastening to do evil, —[are hateful to God].
| قَلْبٌ يُنْشِئُ أَفْكَارًا رَدِيئَةً، أَرْجُلٌ سَرِيعَةُ ٱلْجَرَيَانِ إِلَى ٱلسُّوءِ، | ١٨ |
19 An unjust witness kindles falsehoods, and brings on quarrels between brethren.
| شَاهِدُ زُورٍ يَفُوهُ بِٱلْأَكَاذِيبِ، وَزَارِعُ خُصُومَاتٍ بَيْنَ إِخْوَةٍ. | ١٩ |
20 [My] son, keep the laws of your father, and reject not the ordinances of your mother:
| يَا ٱبْنِي، ٱحْفَظْ وَصَايَا أَبِيكَ وَلَا تَتْرُكْ شَرِيعَةَ أُمِّكَ. | ٢٠ |
21 but bind them upon your soul continually, and hang them as a chain about your neck.
| اُرْبُطْهَا عَلَى قَلْبِكَ دَائِمًا. قَلِّدْ بِهَا عُنُقَكَ. | ٢١ |
22 Whenever you walk, lead this along and let it be with you; that it may talk with you when you wake.
| إِذَا ذَهَبْتَ تَهْدِيكَ. إِذَا نِمْتَ تَحْرُسُكَ، وَإِذَا ٱسْتَيْقَظْتَ فَهِيَ تُحَدِّثُكَ. | ٢٢ |
23 For the commandment of the law is a lamp and a light; a way of life; reproof also and correction:
| لِأَنَّ ٱلْوَصِيَّةَ مِصْبَاحٌ، وَٱلشَّرِيعَةَ نُورٌ، وَتَوْبِيخَاتِ ٱلْأَدَبِ طَرِيقُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ. | ٢٣ |
24 to keep you continually from a married woman, and from the calumny of a strange tongue.
| لِحِفْظِكَ مِنَ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ ٱلشِّرِّيرَةِ، مِنْ مَلَقِ لِسَانِ ٱلْأَجْنَبِيَّةِ. | ٢٤ |
25 Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be you caught by your eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.
| لَا تَشْتَهِيَنَّ جَمَالَهَا بِقَلْبِكَ، وَلَا تَأْخُذْكَ بِهُدُبِهَا. | ٢٥ |
26 For the value of a harlot is as much as of one loaf; and a woman hunts for the precious souls of men.
| لِأَنَّهُ بِسَبَبِ ٱمْرَأَةٍ زَانِيَةٍ يَفْتَقِرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ إِلَى رَغِيفِ خُبْزٍ، وَٱمْرَأَةُ رَجُلٍ آخَرَ تَقْتَنِصُ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلْكَرِيمَةَ. | ٢٦ |
27 Shall any one bind fire in his bosom, and not burn his garments?
| أَيَأْخُذُ إِنْسَانٌ نَارًا فِي حِضْنِهِ وَلَا تَحْتَرِقُ ثِيَابُهُ؟ | ٢٧ |
28 or will any one walk on coals of fire, and not burn his feet?
| أَوَ يَمْشِي إِنْسَانٌ عَلَى ٱلْجَمْرِ وَلَا تَكْتَوِي رِجْلَاهُ؟ | ٢٨ |
29 So is he that goes in to a married woman; he shall not be held guiltless, neither any one that touches her.
| هَكَذَا مَنْ يَدْخُلُ عَلَى ٱمْرَأَةِ صَاحِبِهِ. كُلُّ مَنْ يَمَسُّهَا لَا يَكُونُ بَرِيئًا. | ٢٩ |
30 It is not to be wondered at if one should be taken stealing, for he steals that when hungry he may satisfy his soul:
| لَا يَسْتَخِفُّونَ بِٱلسَّارِقِ وَلَوْ سَرِقَ لِيُشْبِعَ نَفْسَهُ وَهُوَ جَوْعَانٌ. | ٣٠ |
31 but if he should be taken, he shall repay sevenfold, and shall deliver himself by giving all his goods.
| إِنْ وُجِدَ يَرُدُّ سَبْعَةَ أَضْعَافٍ، وَيُعْطِي كُلَّ قِنْيَةِ بَيْتِهِ. | ٣١ |
32 But the adulterer through lack of sense procures destruction to his soul.
| أَمَّا ٱلزَّانِي بِٱمْرَأَةٍ فَعَدِيمُ ٱلْعَقْلِ. ٱلْمُهْلِكُ نَفْسَهُ هُوَ يَفْعَلُهُ. | ٣٢ |
33 He endures both pain and disgrace, and his reproach shall never be wiped off.
| ضَرْبًا وَخِزْيًا يَجِدُ، وَعَارُهُ لَا يُمْحَى. | ٣٣ |
34 For the soul of her husband is full of jealousy: he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
| لِأَنَّ ٱلْغَيْرَةَ هِيَ حَمِيَّةُ ٱلرَّجُلِ، فَلَا يُشْفِقُ فِي يَوْمِ ٱلِٱنْتِقَامِ. | ٣٤ |
35 He will not forego [his] enmity for any ransom: neither will he be reconciled for many gifts.
| لَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَى فِدْيَةٍ مَّا، وَلَا يَرْضَى وَلَوْ أَكْثَرْتَ ٱلرَّشْوَةَ. | ٣٥ |
