သုတ္တံကျမ်း 4
Hear, ye children, the instruction of a father, And attend, that ye may learn understanding!
For I give you good instruction; Forsake ye not my commandments.
For I was my father's son, A tender and only child in the sight of my mother.
4 ၄ ငါ့အဘသွန်သင်၍မြွက်ဆိုလေသည်ကား၊ ငါ့စကားကို သင်၏နှလုံး၌ သွင်းမိ၍၊ ငါ့ပညတ်တို့ကို ကျင့်စောင့်သဖြင့် အသက်ရှင်လော့။
He taught me, and said to me, Let thy heart hold fast my words; Keep my commandments, and live.
Get wisdom, get understanding; Forget not, and depart not from, the words of my mouth.
Forsake her not, and she will guard thee: Love her, and she will preserve thee.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore gain wisdom, And with all thy gain, gain understanding.
8 ၈ သူ့ကိုအမြတ်ထားလော့။ သူသည် သင့်ကို ချီးမြှောက်လိမ့်မည်။ သူ့ကိုဘက်ယမ်းလျှင်၊ ဂုဏ်အသရေ ကို ပေးလိမ့်မည်။
Exalt her, and she will promote thee; She will bring thee to honor, when thou dost embrace her;
She will give to thy head a graceful wreath, A beautiful crown will she bestow upon thee.
Hear, O my son! and receive my sayings! So shall the years of thy life be many.
I have taught thee the way of wisdom, I have guided thee in the right path.
When thou goest, thy steps shall not be confined; And, when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.
Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go; Keep her, for she is thy life.
Enter not into the path of the wicked, And go not in the way of evil men;
Avoid it, pass not upon it, Turn from it, and go away.
For they sleep not, unless they have done mischief; Yea, their sleep is taken away, unless they have caused some to fall.
For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
18 ၁၈ ဖြောင့်မတ်သောသူတို့၏လမ်းသည် တက်သော အာရုဏ်ကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်၍၊ နေထွက်သည်တိုင်အောင် တိုးပွါး ထွန်းလင်းတတ်၏။
But the path of the righteous is as the light of dawn, Which groweth brighter and brighter unto the perfect day.
19 ၁၉ မတရားသောသူတို့၏လမ်းမူကား၊ မှောင်မိုက် ကဲ့သို့ဖြစ်၍၊ သူတို့သည် လဲသောအခါ၊ အဘယ်အရာကို တိုက်မိသည်ဟု မသိရကြ။
The way of the wicked is as thick darkness; They know not at what they stumble.
My son, attend to my words; Incline thine ear to my sayings;
Let them not depart from thine 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 who find them, And health to all their flesh.
More than any thing which thou watchest, watch thy heart; For from it goeth forth life.
Put away from thee a deceitful mouth, And remove far from thee perverse lips.
Let thine eyes look straight forward, And thine eyelids be directed before thee.
Give heed to the path of thy foot, And let all thy ways be steadfast.
Turn not to the right hand or to the left; Remove thy foot from evil.
