नीतिसूत्रे 23
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
Labour not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
5 ५ जेव्हा तू जो जाणारा पैसा आहे त्यावर आपली नजर लावशील, आणि अचानक ते पंख धारण करतील, आणि ते गरुडासारखे आकाशाकडे उडून जातील.
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
6 ६ जो कोणी तुझ्या अन्नाकडे खूप वेळ पाहतो त्या दुष्ट मनुष्याचे अन्न खाऊ नको, आणि त्याच्या मिष्टान्नाची इच्छा धरू नको,
Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
7 ७ तो अशाप्रकारचा मनुष्य आहे जो अन्नाची किंमत मोजतो. तो तुला खा व पी! म्हणतो, परंतु त्याचे मन तुझ्यावर नाही.
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. (Sheol h7585)
My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
29 २९ कोणाला हाय? कोणाला दुःख? कोणाला लढाई? कोणाला गाऱ्हाणी? कोणाला विनाकारण जखमा? कोणाला आरक्त डोळे आहे?
Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
34 ३४ जो समुद्रामध्ये आडवा पडला त्याच्यासारखा, अथवा डोलकाठीच्या माथ्यावर जो झोपला त्याच्यासारखा तू होशील.
Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
35 ३५ तुम्ही म्हणाल, “त्यांनी मला तडाखा दिला! पण मला काही लागले नाही. त्यांनी मला पिटले पण मला ते जाणवले नाही. मी केव्हा जागा होईल? मी पुन्हा त्याचे सेवन करीन.”
They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
