નીતિવચનો 24
Do not envy evil people; do not desire to associate with them,
because they are [constantly] thinking about acting violently, and whenever they speak [MTY], they talk about (causing trouble/hurting someone).
People make good houses (OR, families) by doing what is wise, and they make their houses (OR, families) strong by [heeding] good advice.
By using good sense, [they are able to buy] valuable and beautiful things and put them in the rooms of their houses.
5 ૫ બહાદુર માણસ બળવાન હોય છે, પણ જે વ્યક્તિ પાસે ડહાપણ છે તે બહાદુર વ્યક્તિ કરતાં વધારે બળવાન હોય છે.
Being wise is better than being strong/powerful; those who know [many things can accomplish more] than those who are [very] strong.
Leaders can fight battles if they have wise advisors, and they win those battles if they have many good advisors.
Foolish people cannot understand wise sayings/talk; at public meetings they are not [able to] say anything [that is useful].
Those who are [always] planning to do evil things will be called troublemakers.
It is sinful to plan to do foolish things, and people hate those who make fun of [everything that is good].
If you [act as though] you are helpless when you have troubles, you are [truly very] weak.
11 ૧૧ જેઓને મોત માટે ઘસડી જવામાં આવે છે તેઓને છોડાવ જેઓ માર્યા જવાની તૈયારીમાં છે તેઓને છોડાવવાનું ચૂકતો નહિ.
[If it is unjustly decided] that someone must be executed, [try hard to] rescue them [DOU].
12 ૧૨ જો તું કહે કે, “અમે તો એ જાણતા નહોતા.” તો જે અંત: કરણોની ચકાસણી કરે છે તે શું તેનો વિચાર કરશે નહિ? અને જે તારા જીવનો રક્ષક છે તે શું નથી જાણતો? અને શું તે દરેક માણસને તેની કરણી પ્રમાણે ફળ આપશે નહિ?
If you say, “I did not know anything about it, [so (it is not my concern/I did not try to help him)],” remember that God knows what we have done, and he knows what we were thinking [IDM, RHQ], and he will certainly [RHQ] repay us as we deserve for what we have done or for not doing what we should have done.
13 ૧૩ મારા દીકરા, મધ ખા કેમ કે તે ગુણકારી છે, મધનું ચાકું પણ ખા, કેમ કે તેનો સ્વાદ તને મીઠો લાગે છે.
My child/son, eat honey, because it is good [for you]; the honey that drips from honeycombs tastes [very] sweet.
14 ૧૪ ખરેખર ડહાપણ તારા આત્માને માટે છે, જો તને તે મળ્યું હોય, તો તને તેનું પ્રતિફળ મળશે અને તારી આશા વ્યર્થ જશે નહિ.
Similarly, being wise is good for your soul; if you become wise, you will be [happy in] the future, and [God] will certainly [do for you what you are] confidently expecting him to do [LIT].
Do not be like wicked people who [hide and] wait to break into the houses of righteous/good [people] and rob/steal things.
[Even if] good people fall down seven/many times, they [always] stand/get up again, but when a disaster happens to wicked [people], it ruins/destroys them.
17 ૧૭ જ્યારે તારા દુશ્મનની પડતી થાય, ત્યારે હર્ષ ન કર અને જ્યારે તે પાયમાલ થાય ત્યારે તારા હૃદયમાં તું મગ્ન થતો નહિ.
Do not be happy when something bad happens to one of your enemies; do not rejoice when he stumbles and falls,
because Yahweh will know what you are thinking, and he will not like it, and [as a result] he will not punish that enemy of yours.
Do not become angry/upset about those who do what is evil, and do not [SYN] envy them,
because [nothing good] will happen to wicked people; they are [like] a lamp that will soon be extinguished [MET].
My child/son, revere Yahweh and [also] honor the king, and do not associate with people who want to rebel against either of them,
because those people will suddenly experience disasters; and no one knows [RHQ] what great disasters that God or the king can cause to happen to them.
Here are more things that wise [people] have said: It is wrong for judges to decide matters unfairly [IDM].
If they say to people who are guilty, “You (are innocent/have not done something that is wrong),” [even] people in other nations will curse and despise them,
but if judges say that guilty people must be punished, things will go well for those judges, and (they will receive blessings/God will bless them).
Those who answer others honestly show that they are truly their friends [IDM].
First, do the work [that needs to be done] outside [your house], and prepare your fields, [and then plant things], and after you finish doing that, build your house.
[In the courtroom] do not testify against someone when you have no reason to do that, and do not [try to] deceive [people] by what you say [MTY].
29 ૨૯ એમ ન કહે કે, “જેવું તેણે મને કર્યું છે, તેવું હું તેને કરીશ; તેને તેના કામ પ્રમાણે હું બદલો આપીશ.”
Do not say, “I will do to him what he did to me; I will pay him back for [the bad things that] he did to me.”
One day I walked by the vineyards of a lazy man, a man who did not have good sense.
31 ૩૧ ત્યારે મેં જોયું તો તેમાં બધે ઝાંખરાં ઊગી નીકળ્યાં હતાં, જમીન કાંટાથી છવાઈ ગઈ હતી અને તેની પથ્થરનો કોટ તૂટી ગયો હતો.
I was surprised to see that the fields were full of all kinds of thorny bushes, and the stone wall [around the garden] had (collapsed/fallen down).
When I saw that, I thought about it, and I learned this:
[If you spend a lot of time] sleeping and napping and folding your hands while you rest,
[soon] you will become poor; [it will be as though] [PRS, SIM] a bandit who had a weapon in his hand [attacked you and stole all that you had].
