Masese 1
1 Masese ya Salomo, mwana mobali ya Davidi, mokonzi ya Isalaele:
proverb Solomon son: child David king Israel
2 mpo na koyeba bwanya, kozwa mateya mpe kososola maloba ya mayele;
to/for to know wisdom and discipline: instruction to/for to understand word understanding
3 mpo na kozwa mateya ya bwanya oyo epesaka bizaleli ya sembo, ya boyengebene mpe makambo ya alima;
to/for to take: recieve discipline: instruction be prudent righteousness and justice and uprightness
4 mpo na kopesa mayele epai ya bazoba, mpe boyebi epai ya bilenge.
to/for to give: give to/for simple craftiness to/for youth knowledge and plot
5 Tika ete moto ya bwanya ayoka yango, mpe akobakisa bwanya na ye, bongo moto ya mayele akoyeba mayele ya kotambolisa bato;
to hear: hear wise and to add teaching and to understand counsel to buy
6 mpo na kososola masese mpe sambole, maloba ya bwanya mpe kolimbola makambo.
to/for to understand proverb and mockery word wise and riddle their
7 Kotosa Yawe ezali mosisa ya mayele; bato oyo bazangi mayele batiolaka bwanya mpe toli.
fear LORD first: beginning knowledge wisdom and discipline: instruction fool(ish) to despise
8 Mwana na ngai ya mobali, yoka toli ya tata na yo, mpe kobwaka te mateya ya mama na yo;
to hear: hear son: child my discipline: instruction father your and not to leave instruction mother your
9 Pamba te ekozala lokola ekoti ya ngolu na moto na yo, mpe lokola mayaka ya kitoko na kingo na yo.
for wreath favor they(masc.) to/for head your and necklace to/for neck your
10 Mwana na ngai ya mobali, soki bato ya masumu balingi kokweyisa yo, komitika te.
son: child my if to entice you sinner not be willing
11 Soki balobi na yo: « Yaka elongo na biso, tika ete tosala motambo mpo na koboma bato, tokosepela mpo na kokanga moto oyo ayebi likambo te!
if to say to go: come [emph?] with us to ambush to/for blood to treasure to/for innocent for nothing
12 Ndenge mokili ya bakufi esalaka, tokomela ye ya bomoi, tokomela ye mobimba lokola bato oyo bakitaka na libulu ya kufa; (Sheol h7585)
to swallow up them like/as hell: Sheol alive and unblemished: complete like/as to go down pit (Sheol h7585)
13 tokozwa biloko ya talo ya ndenge na ndenge, mpe tokotondisa bandako na biso na bomengo ya bitumba;
all substance precious to find to fill house: home our spoil
14 okozwa ndambo na yo epai na biso, pamba te biso nyonso tokosangisa biloko na biso esika moko; »
allotted your to fall: deserting in/on/with midst our purse one to be to/for all our
15 mwana na ngai ya mobali, kokende elongo na bango te, longola makolo na yo na nzela na bango;
son: child my not to go: walk in/on/with way: journey with them to withhold foot your from path their
16 pamba te makolo na bango ekimaka mbangu mpo na kolanda mabe, mpe bapotaka mbangu mpo na kosopa makila.
for foot their to/for bad: evil to run: run and to hasten to/for to pour: kill blood
17 Solo, ezali pamba kotia monyama liboso ya miso ya bikelamu nyonso oyo ezali na mapapu.
for for nothing to scatter [the] net in/on/with eye: seeing all master: [master of] wing
18 Kasi bango, batiaka mitambo mpo na kosopa makila na bango moko, bamilukelaka pasi na bomoi na bango.
and they(masc.) to/for blood their to ambush to treasure to/for soul: life their
19 Moto oyo alukaka kozwa bomengo na nzela ya lokuta asukaka kaka bongo, mpe bomengo yango ebomaka kaka ye moko.
so way all to cut off: to gain unjust-gain [obj] soul: life master his to take: take
20 Bwanya azali koganga na libanda, atomboli mongongo na ye na bisika oyo bato ebele bakutanaka;
wisdom in/on/with outside to sing in/on/with street/plaza to give: cry out voice her
21 azali koganga na bisika ya loyenge mpe azali koloba liboso ya ekuke ya engumba:
in/on/with head: top to roar to call: call out in/on/with entrance gate in/on/with city word her to say
22 « Yo moto oyo ozangi mayele, kino tango nini okolinga bozoba na yo? Kino tango nini batioli bakokoba kosepela kotiola? Mpe bino bazoba, kino tango nini bokokoba koyina mayele?
till how simple to love: lover simplicity and to mock scorning to desire to/for them and fool to hate knowledge
23 Soki boyoki makebisi na Ngai, nakosopela bino Molimo na Ngai mpe nakososolisa bino maloba na Ngai.
to return: repent to/for argument my behold to bubble to/for you spirit my to know word my [obj] you
24 Kasi lokola bosundolaki Ngai tango nazalaki kobelela mpe moto moko te asalaki keba tango natandaki loboko,
because to call: call to and to refuse to stretch hand my and nothing to listen
25 lokola bobwakaki toli na Ngai mpe boboyaki kondima pamela na Ngai,
and to neglect all counsel my and argument my not be willing
26 Ngai mpe nakoseka bino tango pasi ekoyela bino, nakotiola bino tango minyoko ekokomela bino,
also I in/on/with calamity your to laugh to mock in/on/with to come (in): come dread your
27 tango minyoko ekokomela bino na pwasa lokola mvula ya kake makasi, tango somo ekoyela bino lokola ekumbaki, tango mawa mpe somo ekokomela bino.
in/on/with to come (in): come (like/as devastation *Q(K)*) dread your and calamity your like/as whirlwind to come in/on/with to come (in): come upon you distress and anguish
28 Bakoganga epai na Ngai, kasi nakoyanola bango te; bakoluka Ngai na ngonga ya malamu, kasi bakomona Ngai te.
then to call: call to me and not to answer to seek me and not to find me
29 Lokola bayinaki boyebi mpe baponaki te nzela ya kotosa Yawe,
underneath: because of for to hate knowledge and fear LORD not to choose
30 lokola baboyaki kondima toli na Ngai mpe batiolaki pamela na Ngai,
not be willing to/for counsel my to spurn all argument my
31 bakolia mbuma ya etamboli na bango mpe bakotonda na mabongisi ya mitema na bango moko.
and to eat from fruit way: journey their and from counsel their to satisfy
32 Pamba te kotomboka ya bato oyo bazangi mayele ekoboma bango, mpe bozangi bokebi ya bato oyo bazangi mayele ekoboma kaka bango moko;
for faithlessness simple to kill them and ease fool to perish them
33 kasi moto oyo ayokaka Ngai akovanda na kimia mpe akobanga mabe moko te. »
and to hear: hear to/for me to dwell security and to rest from dread distress: harm
