नीतिवचन 1
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;
3 ३ और विवेकपूर्ण जीवन निर्वाह करने में प्रवीणता, और धर्म, न्याय और निष्पक्षता के विषय अनुशासन प्राप्त करे;
to receive the instruction of wisdom, righteousness and judgment, and equity;
to give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
He that is wise will hear, and will increase learning; and the intelligent will gain wise counsels:
to understand a proverb and an allegory, the words of the wise and their enigmas.
The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the teaching of thy mother;
for they shall be a garland of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent not.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;
12 १२ हम उन्हें जीवित निगल जाए, जैसे अधोलोक स्वस्थ लोगों को निगल जाता है, और उन्हें कब्र में पड़े मृतकों के समान बना दें। (Sheol h7585)
let us swallow them up alive as Sheol, and whole, as those that go down into the pit; (Sheol h7585)
we shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
cast in thy lot among us; we will all have one purse:
— my son, walk not in the way with them, keep back thy foot from their path;
for their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.
For in vain the net is spread in the sight of anything which hath wings.
18 १८ और ये लोग तो अपनी ही हत्या करने के लिये घात लगाते हैं, और अपने ही प्राणों की घात की ताक में रहते हैं।
And these lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
Wisdom crieth without; she raiseth her voice in the broadways;
she calleth in the chief [place] of concourse, in the entry of the gates; in the city she uttereth her words:
22 २२ “हे अज्ञानियों, तुम कब तक अज्ञानता से प्रीति रखोगे? और हे ठट्ठा करनेवालों, तुम कब तक ठट्ठा करने से प्रसन्न रहोगे? हे मूर्खों, तुम कब तक ज्ञान से बैर रखोगे?
How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
23 २३ तुम मेरी डाँट सुनकर मन फिराओ; सुनो, मैं अपनी आत्मा तुम्हारे लिये उण्डेल दूँगी; मैं तुम को अपने वचन बताऊँगी।
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words.
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one regarded;
and ye have rejected all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
I also will laugh in your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 २७ वरन् आँधी के समान तुम पर भय आ पड़ेगा, और विपत्ति बवण्डर के समान आ पड़ेगी, और तुम संकट और सकेती में फँसोगे, तब मैं ठट्ठा करूँगी।
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
— then will they call upon me, but I will not answer; they will seek me early, and shall not find me.
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of Jehovah;
they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof:
therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way, and be filled with their own devices.
32 ३२ क्योंकि अज्ञानियों का भटक जाना, उनके घात किए जाने का कारण होगा, और निश्चिन्त रहने के कारण मूर्ख लोग नाश होंगे;
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be at rest from fear of evil.
