நீதிமொழிகள் 23
1 ௧ நீ ஒரு அதிபதியோடு சாப்பிடுவதற்கு உட்கார்ந்தால், உனக்கு முன்பாக இருக்கிறதை நன்றாகக் கவனித்துப்பார்.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, Diligently consider that which [is] before you,
And you have put a knife to your throat, If you [are] a man of appetite.
Have no desire to his delicacies, seeing it [is] lying food.
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 ௫ இல்லாமற்போகும் பொருள்மேல் உன்னுடைய கண்களை ஏன் பறக்கவிடவேண்டும்? அது கழுகைப்போல சிறகுகளைத் தனக்கு உண்டாக்கிக்கொண்டு, வானில் பறந்துபோகும்.
For wealth makes wings to itself, It flies to the heavens as an eagle.
Do not eat the bread of an evil eye, And have no desire to his delicacies,
7 ௭ அவனுடைய இருதயத்தின் நினைவு எப்படியோ, அப்படியே அவனும் இருக்கிறான்; சாப்பிடும், குடியும் என்று அவன் உன்னோடு சொன்னாலும், அவனுடைய இருதயம் உன்னோடு இருக்காது.
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.
You vomit up your morsel you have eaten, And have marred your words that [are] sweet.
Do not speak in the ears of a fool, For he treads on the wisdom of your words.
Do not remove a border of ancient times, And do not enter into fields of the fatherless,
For their Redeemer [is] strong, He pleads their cause with you.
Bring your heart to instruction, And your ear to sayings of knowledge.
Do not withhold discipline from a youth, When you strike him with a rod he does not die.
14 ௧௪ நீ பிரம்பினால் அவனை அடிக்கிறதினால் பாதாளத்திற்கு அவனுடைய ஆத்துமாவைத் தப்புவிப்பாயே. (Sheol h7585)
You strike him with a rod, And you deliver his soul from Sheol. (Sheol h7585)
My son, if your heart has been wise, My heart rejoices, even mine,
And my reins exult when your lips speak uprightly.
Do not let your heart be envious at sinners, But—in the fear of YHWH all the day.
For is there a posterity? Then your hope is not cut off.
Hear, my son, and be wise, And make your heart blessed in the way,
Do not become drunk with wine, Among gluttonous ones of flesh,
For the drunkard and glutton become poor, And drowsiness clothes with rags.
Listen to your father, who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she has become old.
Buy truth, and do not sell, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,
The father of the righteous rejoices greatly, The begetter of the wise rejoices in him.
Your father and your mother rejoice, Indeed, she bearing you is joyful.
Give, my son, your heart to me, And let your eyes watch my ways.
For a harlot [is] a deep ditch, And a strange woman [is] a narrow pit.
She also, as catching prey, lies in wait, And she increases the treacherous 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 complaint? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes?
30 ௩0 மதுபானம் இருக்கும் இடத்திலே தங்கி வாழ்பவர்களுக்கும், கலப்புள்ள சாராயத்தை நாடுகிறவர்களுக்கும்தானே.
Those lingering by the wine, Those going in to search out mixed wine.
31 ௩௧ மதுபானம் இரத்த நிறமாக இருந்து, பாத்திரத்தில் பளபளப்பாகத் தோன்றும்போது, நீ அதைப் பார்க்காதே; அது மெதுவாக இறங்கும்.
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.
Its latter end—it bites as a serpent, And it stings as a viper.
Your eyes see strange women, And your heart speaks perverse things.
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 ௩௫ என்னை அடித்தார்கள், எனக்கு நோகவில்லை; என்னை அறைந்தார்கள், எனக்குச் சுரணையில்லை; நான் அதைப் பின்னும் தொடர்ந்து தேட எப்பொழுது விழிப்பேன் என்பாய்.
“They struck me, I have not been sick, They beat me, I have not known. When I awake—I seek it yet again!”
