நீதிமொழிகள் 23
1 ௧ நீ ஒரு அதிபதியோடு சாப்பிடுவதற்கு உட்கார்ந்தால், உனக்கு முன்பாக இருக்கிறதை நன்றாகக் கவனித்துப்பார்.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you:
And put a knife to your throat, if you be a man given to appetite.
Be not desirous of his dainties: for they are deceitful food.
Labour not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.
5 ௫ இல்லாமற்போகும் பொருள்மேல் உன்னுடைய கண்களை ஏன் பறக்கவிடவேண்டும்? அது கழுகைப்போல சிறகுகளைத் தனக்கு உண்டாக்கிக்கொண்டு, வானில் பறந்துபோகும்.
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
7 ௭ அவனுடைய இருதயத்தின் நினைவு எப்படியோ, அப்படியே அவனும் இருக்கிறான்; சாப்பிடும், குடியும் என்று அவன் உன்னோடு சொன்னாலும், அவனுடைய இருதயம் உன்னோடு இருக்காது.
For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you.
The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and lose your sweet words.
Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Remove not the old landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with you.
Apply your heart unto instruction, and your ears to the words of knowledge.
Withhold not correction from the child: for if you beat him with the rod, he shall not die.
14 ௧௪ நீ பிரம்பினால் அவனை அடிக்கிறதினால் பாதாளத்திற்கு அவனுடைய ஆத்துமாவைத் தப்புவிப்பாயே. (Sheol h7585)
You shall beat him with the rod, and shall deliver his soul from hell. (Sheol h7585)
My son, if your heart be wise, my heart shall rejoice, even mine.
Yea, my reins shall rejoice, when your lips speak right things.
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be you in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
For surely there is an end; and your expectation shall not be cut off.
Hear you, my son, and be wise, and guide your heart in the way.
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.
Hearken unto your father that brings forth you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that bring forths a wise child shall have joy of him.
Your father and your mother shall be glad, and she that bare you shall rejoice.
My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
She also lies in wait as for a prey, and increases the transgressors among men.
29 ௨௯ ஐயோ, யாருக்கு வேதனை? யாருக்குத் துக்கம்? யாருக்குச் சண்டைகள்? யாருக்குப் புலம்பல்? யாருக்குக் காரணமில்லாத காயங்கள்? யாருக்கு இரத்தம்கலங்கின கண்கள்?
Who has woe? who has sorrow? who has contentions? who has babbling? who has wounds without cause? who has redness of eyes?
30 ௩0 மதுபானம் இருக்கும் இடத்திலே தங்கி வாழ்பவர்களுக்கும், கலப்புள்ள சாராயத்தை நாடுகிறவர்களுக்கும்தானே.
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
31 ௩௧ மதுபானம் இரத்த நிறமாக இருந்து, பாத்திரத்தில் பளபளப்பாகத் தோன்றும்போது, நீ அதைப் பார்க்காதே; அது மெதுவாக இறங்கும்.
Look not you upon the wine when it is red, when it gives his colour in the cup, when it moves itself aright.
At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
your eyes shall behold strange women, and your heart shall utter perverse things.
Yea, you shall be as he that lies down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lies upon the top of a mast.
35 ௩௫ என்னை அடித்தார்கள், எனக்கு நோகவில்லை; என்னை அறைந்தார்கள், எனக்குச் சுரணையில்லை; நான் அதைப் பின்னும் தொடர்ந்து தேட எப்பொழுது விழிப்பேன் என்பாய்.
They have stricken me, shall you say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
