नीतिवचन 8
Does not wisdom cry out, and understanding put forth her voice?
On the top of high places by the way, where the paths meet, she stands.
Beside the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors, she cries aloud:
To you, O men, I call. And my voice is to the sons of men.
O ye simple, understand prudence, and, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.
Hear, for I will speak excellent things. And the opening of my lips shall be right things.
For my mouth shall utter truth. And wickedness is an abomination to my lips.
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing crooked or perverse in them.
They are all plain to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
Receive my instruction, and not silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold.
11 ११ क्योंकि बुद्धि, बहुमूल्य रत्नों से भी अच्छी है, और सारी मनभावनी वस्तुओं में कोई भी उसके तुल्य नहीं है।
For wisdom is better than rubies, and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
I, wisdom, have made prudence my dwelling, and find out knowledge and discretion.
13 १३ यहोवा का भय मानना बुराई से बैर रखना है। घमण्ड और अहंकार, बुरी चाल से, और उलट-फेर की बात से मैं बैर रखती हूँ।
The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil. Pride, and arrogance, and the evil way, and the perverse mouth, do I hate.
Counsel is mine, and sound knowledge. I am understanding, I have might.
By me kings reign, and rulers decree justice.
By me rulers rule, and ranking men, even all the judges of the earth.
17 १७ जो मुझसे प्रेम रखते हैं, उनसे मैं भी प्रेम रखती हूँ, और जो मुझ को यत्न से तड़के उठकर खोजते हैं, वे मुझे पाते हैं।
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently shall find me.
Riches and honor are with me, durable wealth and righteousness.
My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold, and my revenue than choice silver.
I walk in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of justice,
that I may cause those who love me to inherit substance, and that I may fill their treasuries.
Jehovah possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.
I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, before the earth was,
when there were no depths. I was brought forth when there were no fountains abounding with water,
before the mountains were settled, before the hills. I was brought forth
26 २६ जब यहोवा ने न तो पृथ्वी और न मैदान, न जगत की धूलि के परमाणु बनाए थे, इनसे पहले मैं उत्पन्न हुई।
while as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the beginning of the dust of the world.
When he established the heavens, I was there. When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,
when he made firm the skies above, when the fountains of the deep became strong,
29 २९ जब उसने समुद्र की सीमा ठहराई, कि जल उसकी आज्ञा का उल्लंघन न कर सके, और जब वह पृथ्वी की नींव की डोरी लगाता था,
when he gave to the sea its bound that the waters should not transgress his commandment, when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
30 ३० तब मैं प्रधान कारीगर के समान उसके पास थी; और प्रतिदिन मैं उसकी प्रसन्नता थी, और हर समय उसके सामने आनन्दित रहती थी।
then I was by him, a master workman. And I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him,
rejoicing in his habitable earth. And my delight was with the sons of men.
Now therefore, ye sons, hearken to me. For blessed are those who keep my ways.
Hear instruction, and be wise, and do not refuse it.
34 ३४ क्या ही धन्य है वह मनुष्य जो मेरी सुनता, वरन् मेरी डेवढ़ी पर प्रतिदिन खड़ा रहता, और मेरे द्वारों के खम्भों के पास दृष्टि लगाए रहता है।
Blessed is the man who hears me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors.
For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of Jehovah.
36 ३६ परन्तु जो मुझे ढूँढ़ने में विफल होता है, वह अपने ही पर उपद्रव करता है; जितने मुझसे बैर रखते, वे मृत्यु से प्रीति रखते हैं।”
But he who sins against me wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.
