नीतिसूत्रे 6
1 १ माझ्या मुला, शेजाऱ्याच्या कर्जाला जामीनासाठी जर तू आपला पैसा बाजूला ठेवलास, ज्याला तू ओळखत नाही अशा कोणाला तू कर्जासाठी वचन दिले,
My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, Have struck your hand for a stranger,
Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,
3 ३ ह्याकरिता, माझ्या मुला, तू हे कर आणि आपला बचाव कर, कारण तू शेजाऱ्याच्या तावडीत सापडला आहेस. जा आणि आपल्याला नम्र कर आणि आपल्या शेजाऱ्याला तुला मुक्त करण्यास आग्रह कर.
Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trample on yourself, and strengthen your friend,
Do not give sleep to your eyes, And slumber to your eyelids,
Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.
Go to the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;
Which has no captain, overseer, and ruler,
8 ८ तरी ती उन्हाळ्यात आपले अन्न तयार करते, आणि जे काय खाण्यास लागणारे कापणीच्या समयी ते जमा करून ठेवते.
She prepares her bread in summer, She has gathered her food in harvest.
Until when, O slothful one, do you lie? When do you arise from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,
And your poverty has come as a traveler, And your want as an armed man.
A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,
Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,
Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, He sends forth contentions.
Therefore his calamity comes suddenly, He is broken instantly—and no healing.
These six has YHWH hated, Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul:
High eyes, False tongues, And hands shedding innocent blood,
A heart devising thoughts of vanity, Feet hastening to run to evil,
A false witness [who] breathes out lies, And one sending forth contentions between brothers.
Keep, my son, the command of your father, And do not leave the law of your mother.
Bind them on your heart continually, Tie them on your neck.
22 २२ जेव्हा तू चालशील, ते तुला मार्गदर्शन करील; जेव्हा तू झोपशील, तेव्हा ते तुझे रक्षण करील; आणि जेव्हा तू उठशील तेव्हा ते तुझ्याशी बोलेल.
In your going up and down, it leads you, In your lying down, it watches over you, And you have awoken—it talks [with] you.
For the command [is] a lamp, And the Law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,
24 २४ ते तुला अनितीमान स्त्रीकडे जाण्यापासून परावृत्त करते, व्यभिचारी स्त्रीच्या गोडबोल्या जिभेपासून तुझे रक्षण करते.
To preserve you from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.
Do not desire her beauty in your heart, And do not let her take you with her eyelids.
26 २६ वेश्येबरोबर झोपल्याने भाकरीच्या तुकड्याची किंमत चुकवावी लागते, पण दुसऱ्याच्या पत्नीची किंमत म्हणून तुला तुझ्या स्वतःचे जीवन द्यावे लागेल.
For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.
Does a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burned?
Does a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?
29 २९ जो कोणी आपल्या शेजाऱ्याच्या पत्नीबरोबर जातो तो असाच आहे; जो कोणी तिच्याबरोबर संबंध ठेवतो त्यास शिक्षा झाल्याशिवाय राहणार नाही.
So [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, None who touches her is innocent.
30 ३० जर चोर चोरी करताना पकडला तर लोक त्यास तुच्छ मानत नाही; तो भुकेला असताना त्याची भूक शमविण्यासाठी त्याने चोरी केली.
They do not despise the thief, When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,
31 ३१ पण तो पकडला गेला, तर त्याने चोरी केली त्याच्या सातपट परत देईल, तो आपल्या घरचे सर्वच द्रव्य देईल.
And being found he repays sevenfold, He gives all the substance of his house.
He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, He who does it is destroying his soul.
He finds a stroke and shame, And his reproach is not wiped away,
For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he does not spare in a day of vengeance.
He does not accept the appearance of any atonement, Indeed, he does not consent, Though you multiply bribes!
