Proverbs 6
1 My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, Have struck your hand for a stranger,
| يَا ابْنِي إِنْ ضَمِنْتَ أَحَداً، وَإِنْ أَخَذْتَ عَلَى نَفْسِكَ عَهْداً لِلْغَرِيبِ؛ | ١ |
2 Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,
| إِنْ وَقَعْتَ فِي فَخِّ أَقْوَالِ فَمِكَ، وَعَلِقْتَ بِكَلامِ شَفَتَيْكَ، | ٢ |
3 Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trample on yourself, and strengthen your friend,
| فَافْعَلْ هَذَا يَا ابْنِي وَنَجِّ نَفْسَكَ، لأَنَّكَ أَصْبَحْتَ تَحْتَ رَحْمَةِ صَاحِبِكَ: اذْهَبْ تَذَلَّلْ إِلَيْهِ | ٣ |
4 Do not give sleep to your eyes, And slumber to your eyelids,
| وَأَلِحَّ عَلَيْهِ. لَا يَغْلِبْ عَلَيْكَ النَّوْمُ، وَلا عَلَى أَجْفَانِكَ النُّعَاسُ، | ٤ |
5 Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
| نَجِّ نَفْسَكَ كَالظَّبْيِ مِنْ يَدِ الصَّيَّادِ أَوْ كَالْعُصْفُورِ مِنْ قَبْضَةِ الْقَنَّاصِ. | ٥ |
6 Go to the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
| اذْهَبْ إِلَى النَّمْلَةِ أَيُّهَا الْكَسُولُ، تَمَعَّنْ فِي طُرُقِهَا وَكُنْ حَكِيماً، | ٦ |
7 Which has no captain, overseer, and ruler,
| فَمَعَ أَنَّهَا مِنْ غَيْرِ قَائِدٍ أَوْ مُدَبِّرٍ أَوْ حَاكِمٍ، | ٧ |
8 She prepares her bread in summer, She has gathered her food in harvest.
| إِلّا أَنَّهَا تَخْزِنُ طَعَامَهَا فِي الصَّيْفِ، وَتَجْمَعُ مَؤُونَتَهَا فِي مَوْسِمِ الْحَصَادِ. | ٨ |
9 Until when, O slothful one, do you lie? When do you arise from your sleep?
| فَإِلَى مَتَى تَظَلُّ رَاقِداً أَيُّهَا الْكَسُولُ؟ مَتَى تَهُبُّ مِنْ نَوْمِكَ؟ | ٩ |
10 A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
| فَإِنَّ بَعْضَ النَّوْمِ، ثُمَّ بَعْضَ الرُّقَادِ، وَطَيَّ الْيَدَيْنِ لِلْهُجُوعِ، | ١٠ |
11 And your poverty has come as a traveler, And your want as an armed man.
| تَجْعَلُ الْفَقْرَ يُقْبِلُ عَلَيْكَ كَقَاطِعِ طَرِيقٍ، وَالْعَوَزَ كَغَازٍ مُسَلَّحٍ. | ١١ |
12 A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
| الرَّجُلُ الْمُغْتَابُ، الرَّجُلُ الأَثِيمُ هُوَ مَنْ يَسْعَى بِنَمِيمَةِ الْفَمِ الْكَاذِبَةِ، | ١٢ |
13 Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
| وَيَغْمِزُ بِعَيْنَيْهِ، وَيُشِيرُ بِرِجْلَيْهِ، وَيَكْشِفُ عَنْ نَوَايَاهُ بِحَرَكَاتِ أَصَابِعِهِ. | ١٣ |
14 Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, He sends forth contentions.
| يَخْتَرِعُ الشَّرَّ بِقَلْبٍ مُخَادِعٍ، وَيُثِيرُ الْخُصُومَاتِ دَائِماً. | ١٤ |
15 Therefore his calamity comes suddenly, He is broken instantly—and no healing.
| لِذَلِكَ تَغْشَاهُ الْبَلايَا فَجْأَةً، وَفِي لَحْظَةٍ يَتَحَطَّمُ وَيَسْتَعْصِي شِفَاؤُهُ. | ١٥ |
16 These six has YHWH hated, Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul:
| سِتَّةُ أُمُورٍ يَمْقُتُهَا الرَّبُّ، وَسَبْعَةٌ مَكْرُوهَةٌ لَدَيْهِ: | ١٦ |
17 High eyes, False tongues, And hands shedding innocent blood,
| عَيْنَانِ مُتَعَجْرِفَتَانِ، وَلِسَانٌ كَاذِبٌ، وَيَدَانِ تَسْفِكَانِ دَماً بَرِيئاً. | ١٧ |
18 A heart devising thoughts of vanity, Feet hastening to run to evil,
| وَقَلْبٌ يَتَآمَرُ بِالشَّرِّ، وَقَدَمَانِ تُسْرِعَانِ بِصَاحِبِهِمَا لارْتِكَابِ الإِثْمِ، | ١٨ |
19 A false witness [who] breathes out lies, And one sending forth contentions between brothers.
| وَشَاهِدُ زُورٍ يَنْفُثُ كَذِباً، وَرَجُلٌ يَزْرَعُ خُصُومَاتٍ بَيْنَ الإِخْوَةِ. | ١٩ |
20 Keep, my son, the command of your father, And do not leave the law of your mother.
| يَا ابْنِي احْفَظْ وَصَايَا أَبِيكَ وَلا تَتَجَاهَلْ شَرِيعَةَ أُمِّكَ. | ٢٠ |
21 Bind them on your heart continually, Tie them on your neck.
| اعْقِدْهَا دَائِماً عَلَى قَلْبِكَ، وَتَقَلَّدْ بِها فِي عُنُقِكَ، | ٢١ |
22 In your going up and down, it leads you, In your lying down, it watches over you, And you have awoken—it talks [with] you.
| فَتَهْدِيَكَ كُلَّمَا مَشَيْتَ، وَتَرْعَاكَ كُلَّمَا نِمْتَ، وَتُنَاجِيَكَ عِنْدَمَا تَسْتَيْقِظُ. | ٢٢ |
23 For the command [is] a lamp, And the Law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
| فَالْوَصِيَّةُ مِصْبَاحٌ وَالشَّرِيعَةُ نُورٌ، وَالتَّوْبِيخُ فِي سَبِيلِ التَّأْدِيبِ هُوَ طَرِيقُ حَيَاةٍ، | ٢٣ |
24 To preserve you from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
| لِكَيْ تَقِيَكَ مِنَ الْمَرْأَةِ الشِّرِّيرَةِ وَمِنْ لِسَانِ الْعَاهِرَةِ الْمَعْسُولِ. | ٢٤ |
25 Do not desire her beauty in your heart, And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
| لَا تَشْتَهِ جَمَالَهَا فِي قَلْبِكَ وَلا تَأْسِرْ لُبَّكَ بِعُيُونِهَا. | ٢٥ |
26 For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
| لأَنَّهُ بِسَبَبِ الْمَرْأَةِ الْعَاهِرَةِ يَفْتَقِرُ الإِنْسَانُ إِلَى رَغِيفِ خُبْزٍ، وَالزَّانِيَةُ الْمُتَزَوِّجَةُ تَقْتَنِصُ بِأَشْرَاكِهَا النَّفْسَ الْكَرِيمَةَ. | ٢٦ |
27 Does a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burned?
| أَيُمْكِنُ لِلْمَرْءِ أَنْ يَضَعَ نَاراً فِي حِضْنِهِ وَلا تَحْتَرِقَ ثِيَابُهُ؟ | ٢٧ |
28 Does a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
| أَوْ أَنْ يَمْشِيَ عَلَى جَمْرٍ وَلا تَكْتَوِيَ قَدَمَاهُ؟ | ٢٨ |
29 So [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, None who touches her is innocent.
| هَذَا مَا يُصِيبُ كُلَّ مَنْ يَزْنِي بِامْرَأَةِ غَيْرِهِ؛ حَتْماً يَحُلُّ بِهِ الْعِقَابُ. | ٢٩ |
30 They do not despise the thief, When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,
| وَمَعَ أَنَّ النَّاسَ قَدْ لَا تَحْتَقِرُ لِصّاً إِذَا سَرَقَ لِيُشْبِعَ بَطْنَهُ وَهُوَ جَائِعٌ، | ٣٠ |
31 And being found he repays sevenfold, He gives all the substance of his house.
| لَكِنْ إِذَا قُبِضَ عَلَيْهِ مُتَلَبِّساً بِالْجَرِيمَةِ يُعَوِّضُ سَبْعَةَ أَضْعَافٍ، حَتَّى وَلَوْ كَلَّفَهُ ذَلِكَ كُلَّ مَا يَقْتَنِيهِ. | ٣١ |
32 He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, He who does it is destroying his soul.
| أَمَّا الزَّانِي فَيَفْتَقِرُ إِلَى الإِدْرَاكِ السَّلِيمِ، وَكُلُّ مَنْ يَرْتَكِبُ الزِّنَى يُدَمِّرُ نَفْسَهُ، | ٣٢ |
33 He finds a stroke and shame, And his reproach is not wiped away,
| إِذْ يَتَعَرَّضُ لِلضَّرْبِ وَالْهَوَانِ، وَعَارُهُ لَا يُمْحَى أَبَداً. | ٣٣ |
34 For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he does not spare in a day of vengeance.
| لأَنَّ الْغَيْرَةَ تُفَجِّرُ غَضَبَ الرَّجُلِ فَلا يَرْحَمُ عِنْدَمَا يُقْدِمُ عَلَى الانْتِقَامِ. | ٣٤ |
35 He does not accept the appearance of any atonement, Indeed, he does not consent, Though you multiply bribes!
| لَا يَقْبَلُ الْفِدْيَةَ، وَيَأْبَى الاسْتِرْضَاءَ مَهْمَا أَكْثَرْتَ الرِّشْوَةَ. | ٣٥ |
