हितोपदेश 23
1 तँ खानलाई शासकसित बस्दा तेरो सामु राखिएको खानेकुरालाई होसियारीपूर्वक अवलोकन गर् ।
When you sit to eat with a ruler, Diligently consider that which [is] before you,
2 तँ धेरै खाने खन्चुवा हो भने तेरो घाँटीमा चक्कु राख् ।
And you have put a knife to your throat, If you [are] a man of appetite.
3 तिनको स्वादिष्ट खानेकुराको लालसा नगर्, किनकि यो झुटको खाना हो ।
Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.
4 धन-सम्पत्ति कमाउन धेरै नघोट्टी । कहिले बन्द गर्ने भनी थाहा पाउन बुद्धिमानी बन् ।
Do not labor to make wealth, Cease from your own understanding, Do you cause your eyes to fly on it? Then it is not.
5 के यसमाथि तेरो आँखाको ज्योति चम्कन दिन्छस्? यो बितेर जाने छ, किनकि गरुडका झैँ यसका पखेटाहरू पलाउने छन् र यो आकाशमा उडेर जाने छ ।
For wealth makes wings to itself, It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
6 दुष्ट आँखा भएको मानिसको भोजन नखा, र त्यसको स्वादिष्ट खानेकुराको लालसा नगर् ।
Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his delicacies,
7 किनकि त्यो भोजनको मूल्य गिन्ती गर्ने मानिस हो । त्यसले भन्छ, “खाऊ र पिऊ ।” तर त्यसको हृदय तँसित हुँदैन ।
For as he has thought in his soul, so he [is]. “Eat and drink,” he says to you, And his heart [is] not with you.
8 तैँले खाएको थोरै खानेकुरा पनि तैँले बान्ता गर्ने छस्, र तैँले तेरो तारिफलाई त्यसै खेर जान दिनेछस् ।
You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, And have marred your words that [are] sweet.
9 मूर्खले सुन्ने गरी नबोल्, किनकि त्यसले तेरा वचनहरूको बुद्धिलाई तुच्छ ठान्ने छ ।
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on the wisdom of your words.
10 प्राचीन साँध-सिमानाको ढुङ्गो नहटा वा अनाथहरूको खेतबारी नमिच् ।
Do not remove a border of ancient times, And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,
11 किनभने तिनीहरूका उद्धारकर्ता शक्तिशाली हुनुहुन्छ, र उहाँले तेरो विरुद्धमा तिनीहरूको मुद्दा लड्नुहुने छ ।
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He pleads their cause with you.
12 तेरो हृदयलाई अर्तीतिर लगा, र तेरा कानलाई ज्ञानका वचनहरूमा लगा ।
Bring your heart to instruction, And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
13 बच्चाबाट अर्तीलाई नरोक्, किनकि तैँले त्यसलाई अनुशासनमा राखिस् भने त्यो मर्ने छैन ।
Do not withhold discipline from a youth, When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
You strike him with a rod, And you deliver his soul from Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
15 हे मेरो छोरो, तेरो हृदय बुद्धिमानी छ भने मेरो हृदय पनि प्रसन्न हुने छ ।
My son, if your heart has been wise, My heart rejoices, even mine,
16 तेरो ओठले जे ठिक छ, त्यही बोल्दा मेरो अन्तस्करण रमाउने छ ।
And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.
17 तेरो हृदयलाई पापीहरूको ईर्ष्या गर्न नदे, तर दिनैभरि परमप्रभुको भयमा लागिराख् ।
Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.
18 निश्चय नै एउटा भविष्य छ, र तेरो आशा निराश हुने छैन ।
For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off.
19 हे मेरो छोरो, सुन् र बुद्धिमान् हो, अनि तेरो हृदयलाई सुमार्गमा लगा ।
Hear, my son, and be wise, And make your heart blessed in the way,
20 मातेकाहरू वा धेरै मासु हुसर्नेहरूसित सङ्गत नगर्,
Do not become drunk with wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
21 किनकि मतवाला र घिचुवाहरू गरिब बन्छन्, र यस्तो लट्ठ्याइले तिनीहरूलाई झुत्रे बनाउँछ ।
For the drunkard and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clothes with rags.
22 तँलाई जन्म दिने बुबाको कुरा सुन्, र तेरी आमा वृद्ध हुँदा उनलाई तुच्छ नठान् ।
Listen to your father, who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
23 सत्यलाई किन्, र त्यसलाई नबेच् । बुद्धि, अर्ती र समझशक्तिलाई किन् ।
Buy truth, and do not sell, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
24 धर्मात्माको बुबा अत्यन्तै आनन्दित हुने छ, र बुद्धिमान् छोरोलाई जन्म दिने मानिस त्यसमा प्रसन्न हुने छ ।
The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.
25 तेरा बुबा र आमा प्रसन्न होऊन्, अनि तँलाई जन्म दिने आनन्दित होऊन् ।
Your father and your mother rejoice, Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
26 हे मेरो छोरो, मलाई तेरो हृदय दे, र तेरा आँखाले मेरा मार्गहरू हेरून् ।
Give, my son, your heart to me, And let your eyes watch my ways.
27 किनभने वेश्या एउटा गहिरो खाडल हो, र अनैतिक स्त्री एउटा साँघुरो इनार हो ।
For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
28 त्यो चोरझैँ ढुकिबस्छे, र त्यसले मानिसहरूका बिचमा विश्वासघातीहरूको सङ्ख्या बढाउँछे ।
She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, And she increases the treacherous among men.
29 कोसित कष्ट छ? कोसित शोक छ? कोसित कलह छ? कोसित गुनासो छ? कोसित विनाकारण चोट छ? कसका आँखा राताराता छन्?
Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
30 तिनीहरूकै जो धेरै मद्य पिउँछन्, जसले मिश्रित मद्य पिउँछन् ।
Those lingering by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
31 मद्य रातो हुँदा, कचौरामा त्यसको फिँज उठ्दा र त्यो सहजै उँधो जाँदा त्यसलाई नहेर् ।
Do not see wine when it shows itself red, When it gives its color in the cup, It goes up and down through the upright.
32 अन्त्यमा त्यसले सर्पले झैँ डस्छ, र गोमनले झैँ विष हालिदिन्छ ।
Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, And it stings as a viper.
33 तेरा आँखाहरूले अनौठा कुराहरू देख्ने छन्, र तेरो मनले टेडा कुराहरू व्यक्त गर्ने छन् ।
Your eyes see strange women, And your heart speaks perverse things.
34 तँ महासमुद्रमा सुतिरहने व्यक्तिझैँ वा मस्तुलको डोरीको मास्तिर बस्नेझैँ हुने छ ।
And you have been as one lying down in the heart of the sea, And as one lying down on the top of a mast.
35 तैँले भन्ने छस्, “तिनीहरू मलाई हिर्काए, तर मलाई चोट लागेन ।” तिनीहरूले मलाई पिटे, तर मलाई यसको अनुभूति भएन । म कहिले ब्युँझने छु? म अर्को चुस्की खोज्ने छु ।”
“They struck me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”
