< أَمْثَالٌ 2 >
يَا ٱبْنِي، إِنْ قَبِلْتَ كَلَامِي وَخَبَّأْتَ وَصَايَايَ عِنْدَكَ، | ١ 1 |
My son, if you will receive my words, and store up my commandments within you;
حَتَّى تُمِيلَ أُذْنَكَ إِلَى ٱلْحِكْمَةِ، وَتُعَطِّفَ قَلْبَكَ عَلَى ٱلْفَهْمِ، | ٢ 2 |
So as to turn your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
إِنْ دَعَوْتَ ٱلْمَعْرِفَةَ، وَرَفَعْتَ صَوْتَكَ إِلَى ٱلْفَهْمِ، | ٣ 3 |
Yes, if you call out for discernment, and lift up your voice for understanding;
إِنْ طَلَبْتَهَا كَٱلْفِضَّةِ، وَبَحَثْتَ عَنْهَا كَٱلْكُنُوزِ، | ٤ 4 |
If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
فَحِينَئِذٍ تَفْهَمُ مَخَافَةَ ٱلرَّبِّ، وَتَجِدُ مَعْرِفَةَ ٱللهِ. | ٥ 5 |
then you will understand the fear of YHWH, and find the knowledge of God.
لِأَنَّ ٱلرَّبَّ يُعْطِي حِكْمَةً. مِنْ فَمِهِ ٱلْمَعْرِفَةُ وَٱلْفَهْمُ. | ٦ 6 |
For YHWH gives wisdom. Out of his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.
يَذْخَرُ مَعُونَةً لِلْمُسْتَقِيمِينَ. هُوَ مِجَنٌّ لِلسَّالِكِينَ بِٱلْكَمَالِ، | ٧ 7 |
He lays up sound wisdom for the upright. He is a shield to those who walk in integrity;
لِنَصْرِ مَسَالِكِ ٱلْحَقِّ وَحِفْظِ طَرِيقِ أَتْقِيَائِهِ. | ٨ 8 |
that he may guard the paths of justice, and preserve the way of his faithful ones.
حِينَئِذٍ تَفْهَمُ ٱلْعَدْلَ وَٱلْحَقَّ وَٱلِٱسْتِقَامَةَ، كُلَّ سَبِيلٍ صَالِحٍ. | ٩ 9 |
Then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path.
إِذَا دَخَلَتِ ٱلْحِكْمَةُ قَلْبَكَ، وَلَذَّتِ ٱلْمَعْرِفَةُ لِنَفْسِكَ، | ١٠ 10 |
For wisdom will enter into your heart. Knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
فَٱلْعَقْلُ يَحْفَظُكَ، وَٱلْفَهْمُ يَنْصُرُكَ، | ١١ 11 |
Discretion will watch over you. Understanding will keep you,
لِإِنْقَاذِكَ مِنْ طَرِيقِ ٱلشِّرِّيرِ، وَمِنَ ٱلْإِنْسَانِ ٱلْمُتَكَلِّمِ بِٱلْأَكَاذِيبِ، | ١٢ 12 |
to deliver you from the way of evil, from the men who speak perverse things;
ٱلتَّارِكِينَ سُبُلَ ٱلِٱسْتِقَامَةِ لِلسُّلُوكِ فِي مَسَالِكِ ٱلظُّلْمَةِ، | ١٣ 13 |
who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
ٱلْفَرِحِينَ بِفَعْلِ ٱلسُّوءِ، ٱلْمُبْتَهِجِينَ بِأَكَاذِيبِ ٱلشَّرِّ، | ١٤ 14 |
who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the perverseness of evil;
ٱلَّذِينَ طُرُقُهُمْ مُعْوَجَّةٌ، وَهُمْ مُلْتَوُونَ فِي سُبُلِهِمْ. | ١٥ 15 |
who are crooked in their ways, and wayward in their paths:
لِإِنْقَاذِكَ مِنَ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ ٱلْأَجْنَبِيَّةِ، مِنَ ٱلْغَرِيبَةِ ٱلْمُتَمَلِّقَةِ بِكَلَامِهَا، | ١٦ 16 |
To deliver you from the strange woman, even from the foreigner who flatters with her words;
ٱلتَّارِكَةِ أَلِيفَ صِبَاهَا، وَٱلنَّاسِيَةِ عَهْدَ إِلَهِهَا. | ١٧ 17 |
who forsakes the friend of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God:
لِأَنَّ بَيْتَهَا يَسُوخُ إِلَى ٱلْمَوْتِ، وَسُبُلُهَا إِلَى ٱلْأَخِيلَةِ. | ١٨ 18 |
for her house leads down to death, her paths to the dead.
كُلُّ مَنْ دَخَلَ إِلَيْهَا لَا يَؤُوبُ، وَلَا يَبْلُغُونَ سُبُلَ ٱلْحَيَاةِ. | ١٩ 19 |
None who go to her return again, neither do they attain to the paths of life:
حَتَّى تَسْلُكَ فِي طَرِيقِ ٱلصَّالِحِينَ وَتَحْفَظَ سُبُلَ ٱلصِّدِّيقِينَ. | ٢٠ 20 |
that you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
لِأَنَّ ٱلْمُسْتَقِيمِينَ يَسْكُنُونَ ٱلْأَرْضَ، وَٱلْكَامِلِينَ يَبْقَوْنَ فِيهَا. | ٢١ 21 |
For the upright will dwell in the land. The perfect will remain in it.
أَمَّا ٱلْأَشْرَارُ فَيَنْقَرِضُونَ مِنَ ٱلْأَرْضِ، وَٱلْغَادِرُونَ يُسْتَأْصَلُونَ مِنْهَا. | ٢٢ 22 |
But the wicked will be cut off from the land. The treacherous will be uprooted out of it.