സദൃശവാക്യങ്ങൾ 23
1 ൧ നീ അധിപതിയോടുകൂടെ ഭക്ഷണത്തിന് ഇരിക്കുമ്പോൾ നിന്റെ മുമ്പിൽ വെച്ചിരിക്കുന്നത് എന്തെന്ന് കരുതിക്കൊള്ളുക.
When thou sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently him who is before thee,
and put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite.
Be not desirous of his dainties, since they are deceitful food.
Weary not thyself to be rich. Out of thine own wisdom, cease.
5 ൫ നിന്റെ ദൃഷ്ടി ധനത്തിന്മേൽ പതിക്കുന്നത് എന്തിന്? അത് ഇല്ലാതെയായിപ്പോകുമല്ലോ. കഴുകൻ ആകാശത്തേക്ക് എന്നപോലെ അത് ചിറകെടുത്ത് പറന്നുകളയും.
Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.
Eat thou not the bread of an evil eye, nor desire thou his dainties.
7 ൭ അവൻ തന്റെ മനസ്സിൽ കണക്ക് കൂട്ടുന്നതുപോലെ ആകുന്നു; ‘തിന്നു കുടിച്ചുകൊള്ളുക’ എന്ന് അവൻ നിന്നോട് പറയും; അവന്റെ ഹൃദയമോ നിനക്ക് അനുകൂലമല്ല.
For as he thinks within himself, so is he. Eat and drink, he says to thee, but his heart is not with thee.
The morsel which thou have eaten thou shall vomit up, and lose thy sweet words.
Speak not in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
Remove not the ancient landmark. And enter not into the fields of the fatherless,
for their Redeemer is strong. He will plead their cause against thee.
Apply thy heart to instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child, for if thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.
Thou shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
My son, if thy heart be wise, my heart will be glad, even mine.
Yea, my heart will rejoice when thy lips speak right things.
Let not thy heart envy sinners, but be thou in the fear of Jehovah all the day long.
For surely there is a reward, and thy hope shall not be cut off.
Hear thou, my son, and be wise, and guide thy heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers, among gluttonous eaters of flesh.
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.
22 ൨൨ നിന്നെ ജനിപ്പിച്ച അപ്പന്റെ വാക്ക് കേൾക്കുക; നിന്റെ അമ്മ വൃദ്ധയായിരിക്കുമ്പോൾ അവളെ നിന്ദിക്കരുത്.
Hearken to thy father who begot thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and do not sell it, yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who begets a wise son will have joy of him.
Let thy father and thy mother be glad, and let her who bore thee rejoice.
My son, give me thy heart, and let thine eyes delight in my ways.
For a harlot is a deep ditch, and an interloping woman is a narrow pit.
Yea, she lies in wait as a robber, and increases the treacherous among men.
29 ൨൯ ആർക്ക് കഷ്ടം, ആർക്ക് സങ്കടം, ആർക്ക് കലഹം? ആർക്ക് ആവലാതി, ആർക്ക് അനാവശ്യമായ മുറിവുകൾ, ആർക്ക് കൺചുവപ്പ്?
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaining? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
Those who tarry long at the wine. Those who go to seek out mixed wine.
Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it sparkles in the cup, when it goes down smoothly.
At the end it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
Thine eyes shall behold strange things, and thy heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea, thou shall be as he who lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he who lies upon the top of a mast.
35 ൩൫ “അവർ എന്നെ അടിച്ചു എനിക്ക് നൊന്തില്ല; അവർ എന്നെ തല്ലി, ഞാൻ അറിഞ്ഞതുമില്ല. ഞാൻ എപ്പോൾ ഉണരും? ഞാൻ ഇനിയും അത് തന്നെ തേടും” എന്ന് നീ പറയും.
They have stricken me, thou shall say, and I was not hurt. They have beaten me, and I did not feel it. When shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
