नीतिवचन 1
Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
For knowing wisdom and instruction, For understanding sayings of intelligence,
3 ३ और विवेकपूर्ण जीवन निर्वाह करने में प्रवीणता, और धर्म, न्याय और निष्पक्षता के विषय अनुशासन प्राप्त करे;
For receiving the instruction of wisdom, Righteousness, judgment, and uprightness,
For giving to simple ones — prudence, To a youth — knowledge and discretion.
(The wise doth hear and increaseth learning, And the intelligent doth obtain counsels.)
For understanding a proverb and its sweetness, Words of the wise and their acute sayings.
Fear of Jehovah [is] a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,
For a graceful wreath [are] they to thy head, And chains to thy neck.
My son, if sinners entice thee be not willing.
If they say, 'Come with us, we lay wait for blood, We watch 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)
We swallow them as Sheol — alive, And whole — as those going down [to] the pit, (Sheol h7585)
Every precious substance we find, We fill our houses [with] spoil,
Thy lot thou dost cast among us, One purse is — to all of us.'
My son! go not in the way with them, Withhold thy foot from their path,
For their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain is the net spread out before the eyes of any bird.
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 they for their own blood lay wait, They watch secretly for their own lives.
So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
Wisdom in an out-place crieth aloud, In broad places she giveth forth her voice,
At the head of the multitudes she calleth, In the openings of the gates, In the city her sayings she saith:
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?
'Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools 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 back at my reproof, lo, I pour forth to you my spirit, I make known my words with you.
Because I have called, and ye refuse, I stretched out my hand, and none is attending,
And ye slight all my counsel, And my reproof ye have not desired.
I also in your calamity do laugh, I deride 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 destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.
Then they call me, and I do not answer, They seek me earnestly, and find me not.
Because that they have hated knowledge, And the fear of Jehovah have not chosen.
They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,
And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.
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 of the simple slayeth them, And the security of the foolish destroyeth them.
And whoso is hearkening to me dwelleth confidently, And [is] quiet from fear of evil!'
