امثال 8
| آیا ندای حکمت را نمی‌شنوید و به آواز بصیرت گوش نمی‌دهید؟ | 1 |
It is as if wisdom, with great understanding [of many things], is calling [PRS] out [to people].
| حکمت دم دروازه‌های شهر و سر چهارراه‌ها و جلوی در هر خانه‌ای ایستاده، می‌گوید: | 2 |
Wisdom stands on hilltops and at crossroads.
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[Wisdom also stands] at the city gates and shouts loudly,
| «ای مردم، شما را صدا می‌زنم. | 4 |
“I am calling to everyone! I am shouting loudly to all people!
| ای انسانهای جاهل و نادان به ندای من گوش دهید و زیرکی و فهم کسب کنید. | 5 |
You people who do not know how to do things that are smart to do, get sound judgment; you foolish people, get good understanding!
| به من گوش دهید، زیرا سخنان من گرانبهاست. من حقیقت و راستی را بیان می‌کنم و از ناراستی نفرت دارم. | 6 |
Listen to me, because I have some excellent/important things to say. What I say is what is fair/right.
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I speak what is true; I detest speaking [MTY] what is false/deceptive.
| سخنان من بر حق است و کسی را گمراه نمی‌کند. | 8 |
Everything that I say is honest; there is nothing that I say that deceives [people].
| سخنان من برای کسی که گوش شنوا داشته باشد واضح و روشن است. | 9 |
My words are clear to those who have good sense; those who are wise know that what I say is right.
| تعلیمی که من می‌دهم از طلا و نقره گرانبهاتر است. | 10 |
[If someone offers you the kind of teaching I give] or offers you silver, choose my teaching. [If he offers to show you how to be wise] or offers you gold, choose to know how to be wise,
| ارزش من از یاقوت بیشتر است و هیچ چیز را نمی‌توان با من مقایسه کرد. | 11 |
because wisdom is more valuable than jewels. Nothing that you desire [is as valuable] as being wise.
| «من حکمتم و از زیرکی و دانایی و بصیرت برخوردار می‌باشم. | 12 |
I, wisdom, and understanding of what is smart to do, cannot be separated. We are like two people who live in the same house. I know how to be wise and how to make smart decisions.
| اگر کسی خداترس باشد، از بدی نفرت خواهد داشت. من از غرور و تکبر، رفتار و گفتار نادرست متنفرم. | 13 |
[All the people] who revere Yahweh hate evil. I, wisdom, hate [people who are] proud and [people] who think they are more important [than others]. I hate [people who] behave in an evil way and those who say things to deceive [others].
| «منم که هدایت می‌کنم و فهم و بصیرت می‌بخشم. به نیروی من پادشاهان سلطنت می‌کنند و قضات به عدل و انصاف قضاوت می‌نمایند. | 14 |
I give [people] good advice and I enable them to do things that are wise. I understand how things really are, and I am strong.
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When kings are wise, they rule [well]; and when rulers are wise, they make laws that are just/fair.
| تمام رهبران و بزرگان جهان به کمک من حکمرانی می‌کنند. | 16 |
Rulers govern their people with the help of me, wisdom, and those who have authority decide things fairly/just with my help.
| «من کسانی را که مرا دوست دارند، دوست می‌دارم. آنانی که در جستجوی من باشند مرا خواهند یافت. | 17 |
I, [wisdom], love [all] those who love me, and [all] those who truly seek me [will] find me.
| ثروت و حرمت، اموال و موفقیت در اختیار من است. | 18 |
I enable [people] to become rich and to be honored; [I enable them to have] wealth that will last and to be successful.
| بخشش‌های من از طلای ناب و نقرهٔ خالص بهتر است. | 19 |
What I can give people is more valuable than fine/pure gold and the best silver.
| راههای من عدل و حق است. | 20 |
I always do what is righteous and just/fair.
| ثروت حقیقی از آن کسانی است که مرا دوست دارند، زیرا من خزانه‌های ایشان را پر می‌سازم. | 21 |
I give wealth to those who love me; I fill their houses with valuable things.
| «در ابتدا، قبل از آفرینش عالم هستی، خداوند مرا با خود داشت. | 22 |
Yahweh created me, [wisdom], when he began [to create the world]; he created me [to do my work] before he created anything else.
| از ازل، پیش از به وجود آمدن جهان، من شکل گرفتم. | 23 |
He appointed me long ago, before he created the earth.
| قبل از پیدایش اقیانوسها و چشمه‌های پر آب، | 24 |
I was born before the oceans were [created], when there were no springs from which water flowed.
| قبل از آنکه کوهها و تپه‌ها به وجود آیند، | 25 |
I was born before the hills and mountains were formed;
| قبل از آنکه خدا زمین و صحراها و حتی خاک را بیافریند من به وجود آمدم. | 26 |
[I, wisdom], was born before Yahweh made the earth, before he made the fields and the soil on the earth.
| «هنگامی که خدا آسمان را استوار ساخت و افق را بر سطح آبها کشید من آنجا بودم. | 27 |
I was there when Yahweh put the sky in place, when he marked the place [in the distance] where the sky and the oceans [seem to] come together.
| وقتی ابرها را در آسمان گسترانید و چشمه‌ها را از اعماق جاری نمود، | 28 |
I was there when Yahweh put the clouds above [the earth] and when he caused the water that is inside the earth to be secure.
| وقتی حدود دریاها را تعیین کرد تا آبها از آن تجاوز نکنند و وقتی اساس زمین را بنیاد نهاد، | 29 |
I was there when he fixed a boundary for the seas, so that the water in the seas would not go past those boundaries, and when he put down the foundations which support the earth.
| من نزد او معمار بودم. موجب شادی همیشگی او بودم و در حضورش شادی می‌کردم. | 30 |
I was at the side of Yahweh, the master worker (OR, as though I was his child). I caused him to be happy every day, and I was always rejoicing when I was with him.
| دنیا و انسانهایی که او آفریده بود مایهٔ خوشی من بودند. | 31 |
I was delighted with the world that he created; I was happy with the people whom he created, too.
| «پس ای جوانان به من گوش دهید، زیرا همهٔ کسانی که از دستورهای من پیروی می‌کنند سعادتمندند. | 32 |
So, [you people who are like] my sons, listen to me. [I am] pleased with [all] those who obey my teachings.
| به نصیحت من گوش کنید؛ عاقل باشید و نصیحت مرا رد نکنید. | 33 |
Listen [carefully] to what I teach you and become wise. Do not reject my teaching!
| خوشا به حال کسی که به من گوش دهد و هر روز جلوی در خانهٔ من انتظار مرا بکشد، | 34 |
[I am] pleased with those who listen to me, those who are outside my house every day, waiting [for me to come out].
| زیرا هر که مرا بیابد حیات را یافته و خداوند را خشنود ساخته است؛ | 35 |
Those who find me will have [a long] life, and Yahweh [will] be pleased with them.
| اما کسی که مرا از دست بدهد به جانش لطمه می‌زند، آنانی که از من متنفر باشند مرگ را دوست دارند.» | 36 |
But those who stray away from me [just] harm themselves. All those who hate me, [it is as though] [IRO] they are loving death.”
