Proverbs 8
1 Doth not wisedome crie? and vnderstanding vtter her voyce?
| أَلا تُنَادِي الْحِكْمَةُ؟ أَلا يَرْتَفِعُ صَوْتُ الْفِطْنَةِ هَاتِفاً؟ | ١ |
2 She standeth in the top of the high places by the way in the place of the paths.
| إِنَّهَا تَقِفُ عَلَى الْمُرْتَفَعَاتِ، فِي مُحَاذَاةِ الطَّرِيقِ، وَعِنْدَ مُلْتَقَى الشَّوَارِعِ. | ٢ |
3 She cryeth besides the gates before the citie at the entrie of the doores,
| إِلَى جُوَارِ أَبْوَابِ الْمَدِينَةِ وَفِي مَدْخَلِ الثَّغْرِ، تَنْتَصِبُ مُجَاهِرَةً قَائِلَةً: | ٣ |
4 O men, I call vnto you, and vtter my voyce to the children of men.
| إِيَّاكُمْ أَدْعُو أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ وَأَرْفَعُ صَوْتِي بِالنِّدَاءِ إِلَى كُلِّ بَنِي الْبَشَرِ. | ٤ |
5 O ye foolish men, vnderstand wisedome, and ye, O fooles, be wise in heart.
| أَيُّهَا الْحَمْقَى، تَعَلَّمُوا الْفِطْنَةَ، وَأَيُّهَا الأَغْبِيَاءُ اكْتَسِبُوا فَهْماً. | ٥ |
6 Giue eare, for I will speake of excellent things, and the opening of my lippes, shall teache things that be right.
| أَنْصِتُوا لأَنَّنِي سَأَنْطِقُ بِأَقْوَالٍ أَثِيرَةٍ، وَأَفْتَحُ شَفَتَيَّ بِكَلامٍ قَوِيمٍ. | ٦ |
7 For my mouth shall speake the trueth, and my lippes abhorre wickednesse.
| لأَنَّ فَمِي يَتَكَلَّمُ بِالصِّدْقِ، وَشَفَتَيَّ تَمْقُتَانِ الإِثْمَ. | ٧ |
8 All the wordes of my mouth are righteous: there is no lewdenes, nor frowardnesse in them.
| كُلُّ أَقْوَالِ فَمِي عَادِلَةٌ خَالِيَةٌ مِنْ كُلِّ الْتِوَاءٍ وَاعْوِجَاجٍ. | ٨ |
9 They are all plaine to him that will vnderstande, and streight to them that woulde finde knowledge.
| قَوِيمَةٌ لَدَى الْفَهِيمِ، وَمُسْتَقِيمَةٌ لِلَّذِينَ أَدْرَكُوا الْمَعْرِفَةَ. | ٩ |
10 Receiue mine instruction, and not siluer, and knowledge rather then fine golde.
| اخْتَرْ إِرْشَادِي عِوَضَ الْفِضَّةِ، وَالْمَعْرِفَةَ بَدَلَ الذَّهَبِ الْخَالِصِ. | ١٠ |
11 For wisdome is better then precious stones: and all pleasures are not to be compared vnto her.
| لأَنَّ الْحِكْمَةَ أَفْضَلُ مِنَ اللَّآلِئِ، وَكُلُّ مُشْتَهَيَاتِكَ لَا تُعَادِلُهَا. | ١١ |
12 I wisdome dwell with prudence, and I find foorth knowledge and counsels.
| أَنَا الْحِكْمَةُ أَسْكُنُ التَّعَقُّلَ، وَأَمْلِكُ الْمَعْرِفَةَ وَالتَّدْبِيرَ. | ١٢ |
13 The feare of the Lord is to hate euill as pride, and arrogancie, and the euill way: and a mouth that speaketh lewde things, I doe hate.
| مَخَافَةُ الرَّبِّ كَرَاهَةُ الشَّرِّ. أَنَا قَدْ أَبْغَضْتُ الْكِبْرِيَاءَ وَالْغَطْرَسَةَ وَطَرِيقَ السُّوءِ وَفَمَ الْمَكْرِ. | ١٣ |
14 I haue counsell and wisedome: I am vnderstanding, and I haue strength.
| لِي الْمَشُورَةُ وَالرَّأْيُ الصَّائِبُ، لِي الْفِطْنَةُ وَالْقُوَّةُ. | ١٤ |
15 By me, Kings reigne, and princes decree iustice.
| بِمَعُونَتِي يَحْكُمُ الْمُلُوكُ، وَيَشْتَرِعُ الْحُكَّامُ مَا هُوَ عَدْلٌ. | ١٥ |
16 By me princes rule and the nobles, and all the iudges of the earth.
| بِمَعُونَتِي يَسُودُ الرُّؤَسَاءُ وَالْعُظَمَاءُ وَكُلُّ قُضَاةِ الأَرْضِ. | ١٦ |
17 I loue them that loue me: and they that seeke me earely, shall finde me.
| أُحِبُّ مَنْ يُحِبُّونَنِي، وَمَنْ يَجِدُّ فِي الْبَحْثِ عَنِّي يَعْثُرُ علَيَّ. | ١٧ |
18 Riches and honour are with me: euen durable riches and righteousnesse.
| لَدَيَّ الثَّرَاءُ وَالْمَجْدُ وَالْغِنَى الدَّائِمُ وَالصَّلاحُ. | ١٨ |
19 My fruite is better then golde, euen then fine golde, and my reuenues better then fine siluer.
| ثَمَرِي أَفْضَلُ مِنَ الذَّهَبِ الْخَالِصِ، وَغَلَّتِي خَيْرٌ مِنَ الْفِضَّةِ الْمُنْتَقَاةِ. | ١٩ |
20 I cause to walke in the way of righteousnes, and in the middes of the paths of iudgement,
| أَمْشِي فِي طَرِيقِ الْبِرِّ، وَفِي سُبُلِ الْعَدْلِ أَسِيرُ. | ٢٠ |
21 That I may cause them that loue me, to inherite substance, and I will fill their treasures.
| لِكَيْ أَوَرِّثَ مُحِبِّيَّ غِنىً، وَأَمْلأَ خَزَائِنَهُمْ كُنُوزاً. | ٢١ |
22 The Lord hath possessed me in the beginning of his way: I was before his workes of olde.
| اقْتَنَانِي الرَّبُّ مُنْذُ بَدْءِ خَلْقِهِ، مِنْ قَبْلِ الشُّرُوعِ فِي أَعْمَالِهِ الْقَدِيمَةِ. | ٢٢ |
23 I was set vp from euerlasting, from the beginning and before the earth.
| مُنْذُ الأَزَلِ أَنَا هُوَ، مُنْذُ الْبَدْءِ قَبْلَ أَنْ تُوجَدَ الأَرْضُ. | ٢٣ |
24 When there were no depths, was I begotten, when there were no fountaines abounding with water.
| وُلِدْتُ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ تَتَكَوَّنَ اللُّجَجُ وَالْيَنَابِيعُ الْغَزِيرَةُ الْمِيَاهِ. | ٢٤ |
25 Before the mountaines were setled: and before the hilles, was I begotten.
| وُلِدْتُ مِنْ قَبْلِ الْجِبَالِ وَالتِّلالِ. | ٢٥ |
26 He had not yet made the earth, nor the open places, nor the height of the dust in the worlde.
| إِذْ لَمْ يَكُنْ قَدْ خَلَقَ الأَرْضَ بَعْدُ، وَلا الْبَرَارِيَ وَلا بِدَايَةَ أَتْرِبَةِ الْمَسْكُونَةِ. | ٢٦ |
27 When hee prepared the heauens, I was there, when he set the compasse vpon the deepe.
| وَعِنْدَمَا ثَبَّتَ الرَّبُّ السَّمَاءَ، وَحِينَ رَسَمَ دَائِرَةَ الأُفُقِ حَوْلَ وَجْهِ الْغَمْرِ، كُنْتُ هُنَاكَ. | ٢٧ |
28 When he established the cloudes aboue, when he confirmed the fountaines of the deepe,
| عِنْدَمَا ثَبَّتَ السُّحُبَ فِي الْعَلاءِ، وَرَسَّخَ يَنَابِيعَ اللُّجَجِ. | ٢٨ |
29 When he gaue his decree to the Sea, that the waters shoulde not passe his commandement: when he appointed the foundations of the earth,
| عِنْدَمَا قَرَّرَ لِلْبَحْرِ تُخُوماً لَا تَتَجَاوَزُهَا مِيَاهُهُ مُتَعَدِّيَةً عَلَى أَمْرِ الرَّبِّ، وَحِينَ رَسَمَ أُسُسَ الأَرْضِ، | ٢٩ |
30 Then was I with him as a nourisher, and I was dayly his delight reioycing alway before him,
| كُنْتُ عِنْدَهُ صَانِعاً مُبْدِعاً، وَكُنْتُ كُلَّ يَوْمٍ لَذَّتَهُ، أَفِيضُ بَهْجَةً دَائِماً أَمَامَهُ. | ٣٠ |
31 And tooke my solace in the compasse of his earth: and my delite is with the children of men.
| مُغْتَبِطَةً بِعَالَمِهِ الْمَسْكُونِ، وَمَسَرَّاتِي مَعَ بَنِي آدَمَ. | ٣١ |
32 Therefore nowe hearken, O children, vnto me: for blessed are they that keepe my wayes.
| وَالآنَ أَصْغُوا إِلَيَّ أَيُّهَا الأَبْنَاءُ، إِذْ طُوبَى لِمَنْ يُمَارِسُونَ طُرُقِي. | ٣٢ |
33 Heare instruction, and be ye wise, and refuse it not:
| اسْتَمِعُوا إِلَى إِرْشَادِي، وَكُونُوا حُكَمَاءَ وَلا تَتَجَاهَلُوهُ. | ٣٣ |
34 blessed is the man that heareth mee, watching dayly at my gates, and giuing attendance at the postes of my doores.
| طُوبَى لِلإِنْسَانِ الَّذِي يَسْتَمِعُ إلَيَّ، الْحَرِيصِ عَلَى السَّهَرِ عِنْدَ أَبْوَابِي، حَارِساً قَوَائِمَ مَصَارِيعِي، | ٣٤ |
35 For he that findeth me, findeth life, and shall obteine fauour of the Lord.
| لأَنَّ مَنْ يَجِدُنِي يَجِدُ حَيَاةً، وَيَحُوزُ عَلَى مَرْضَاةِ الرَّبِّ. | ٣٥ |
36 But he that sinneth against me, hurteth his owne soule: and all that hate me, loue death.
| وَمَنْ يَضِلُّ عَنِّي يُؤْذِي نَفْسَهُ، وَمَنْ يُبْغِضُنِي يُحِبُّ الْمَوْتَ. | ٣٦ |
