သုတ္တံကျမ်း 4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, and attend that you may know prudence.
I will give you a good gift, forsake not my law.
For I also was my father’s son, tender and as an only son in the sight of my mother:
4 ၄ ငါ့အဘသွန်သင်၍မြွက်ဆိုလေသည်ကား၊ ငါ့စကားကို သင်၏နှလုံး၌ သွင်းမိ၍၊ ငါ့ပညတ်တို့ကို ကျင့်စောင့်သဖြင့် အသက်ရှင်လော့။
And he taught me, and said: Let thy heart receive my words, keep my commandments, and thou shalt live.
Get wisdom, get prudence: forget not, neither decline from the words of my mouth.
Forsake her not, and she shall keep thee: love her, and she shall preserve thee.
The beginning of wisdom, get wisdom, and with all thy possession purchase prudence.
8 ၈ သူ့ကိုအမြတ်ထားလော့။ သူသည် သင့်ကို ချီးမြှောက်လိမ့်မည်။ သူ့ကိုဘက်ယမ်းလျှင်၊ ဂုဏ်အသရေ ကို ပေးလိမ့်မည်။
Take hold on her, and she shall exalt thee: thou shalt be glorified by her, when thou shalt embrace her.
She shall give to thy head increase of graces, and protect thee with a noble crown.
Hear, O my son, and receive my words, that years of life may be multiplied to thee.
I will shew thee the way of wisdom, I will lead thee by the paths of equity:
Which when thou shalt have entered, thy steps shall not be straitened, and when thou runnest thou shalt not meet a stumblingblock.
Take hold on instruction, leave it not: keep it, because it is thy life.
Be not delighted in the paths of the wicked, neither let the way of evil men please thee.
Flee from it, pass not by it: go aside, and forsake it.
For they sleep not except they have done evil: and their sleep is taken away unless they have made some to fall.
They eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of iniquity.
18 ၁၈ ဖြောင့်မတ်သောသူတို့၏လမ်းသည် တက်သော အာရုဏ်ကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်၍၊ နေထွက်သည်တိုင်အောင် တိုးပွါး ထွန်းလင်းတတ်၏။
But the path of the just, as a shining light, goeth forwards and increaseth even to perfect day.
19 ၁၉ မတရားသောသူတို့၏လမ်းမူကား၊ မှောင်မိုက် ကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်၍၊ သူတို့သည် လဲသောအခါ၊ အဘယ်အရာကို တိုက်မိသည်ဟု မသိရကြ။
The way of the wicked is darksome: they know not where they fall.
My son, hearken to my words, and incline thy ear to my sayings.
Let them not depart from thy eyes, keep them in the midst of thy heart:
22 ၂၂ အကြောင်းမူကား၊ ထိုတရားစကားကို တွေ့ရ သောသူတို့သည် အသက်ရှင်ခြင်း၊ တကိုယ်လုံးကျန်းမာ ခြင်းအကြောင်းကို တွေ့ရပြီ။
For they are life to those that find them, and health to all flesh.
With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
Remove from thee a froward mouth, and let detracting lips be far from thee.
Let thy eyes look straight on, and let thy eyelids go before thy steps.
Make straight the path for thy feet, and all thy ways shall be established.
Decline not to the right hand, nor to the left: turn away thy foot from evil. For the Lord knoweth the ways that are on the right hand: but those are perverse which are on the left hand. But he will make thy courses straight, he will bring forward thy ways in peace.
