أَمْثَالٌ 6

١ 1 يَا ٱبْنِي، إِنْ ضَمِنْتَ صَاحِبَكَ، إِنْ صَفَّقْتَ كَفَّكَ لِغَرِيبٍ،

My son! If you have been guarantor for your friend, Have struck your hand for a stranger,

٢ 2 إِنْ عَلِقْتَ فِي كَلَامِ فَمِكَ، إِنْ أُخِذْتَ بِكَلَامِ فِيكَ،

Have been snared with sayings of your mouth, Have been captured with sayings of your mouth,

٣ 3 إِذًا فَٱفْعَلْ هَذَا يَا ٱبْنِي، وَنَجِّ نَفْسَكَ إِذَا صِرْتَ فِي يَدِ صَاحِبِكَ، ٱذْهَبْ تَرَامَ وَأَلِحَّ عَلَى صَاحِبِكَ.

Do this now, my son, and be delivered, For you have come into the hand of your friend. Go, trample on yourself, and strengthen your friend,

٤ 4 لَا تُعْطِ عَيْنَيْكَ نَوْمًا، وَلَا أَجْفَانَكَ نُعَاسًا.

Do not give sleep to your eyes, And slumber to your eyelids,

٥ 5 نَجِّ نَفْسَكَ كَٱلظَّبْيِ مِنَ ٱلْيَدِ، كَٱلْعُصْفُورِ مِنْ يَدِ ٱلصَّيَّادِ.

Be delivered as a roe from the hand, And as a bird from the hand of a fowler.

٦ 6 اِذْهَبْ إِلَى ٱلنَّمْلَةِ أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَسْلَانُ. تَأَمَّلْ طُرُقَهَا وَكُنْ حَكِيمًا.

Go to the ant, O slothful one, See her ways and be wise;

٧ 7 ٱلَّتِي لَيْسَ لَهَا قَائِدٌ أَوْ عَرِيفٌ أَوْ مُتَسَلِّطٌ،

Which has no captain, overseer, and ruler,

٨ 8 وَتُعِدُّ فِي ٱلصَّيْفِ طَعَامَهَا، وَتَجْمَعُ فِي ٱلْحَصَادِ أُكْلَهَا.

She prepares her bread in summer, She has gathered her food in harvest.

٩ 9 إِلَى مَتَى تَنَامُ أَيُّهَا ٱلْكَسْلَانُ؟ مَتَى تَنْهَضُ مِنْ نَوْمِكَ؟

Until when, O slothful one, do you lie? When do you arise from your sleep?

١٠ 10 قَلِيلُ نَوْمٍ بَعْدُ قَلِيلُ نُعَاسٍ، وَطَيُّ ٱلْيَدَيْنِ قَلِيلًا لِلرُّقُودِ،

A little sleep, a little slumber, A little clasping of the hands to rest,

١١ 11 فَيَأْتِي فَقْرُكَ كَسَاعٍ وَعَوَزُكَ كَغَازٍ.

And your poverty has come as a traveler, And your want as an armed man.

١٢ 12 اَلرَّجُلُ ٱللَّئِيمُ، ٱلرَّجُلُ ٱلْأَثِيمُ يَسْعَى بِٱعْوِجَاجِ ٱلْفَمِ.

A man of worthlessness, a man of iniquity, Walking [with] perverseness of mouth,

١٣ 13 يَغْمِزُ بِعَيْنَيْهِ. يَقُولُ بِرِجْلِهِ. يُشِيرُ بِأَصَابِعِهِ.

Winking with his eyes, speaking with his feet, Directing with his fingers,

١٤ 14 فِي قَلْبِهِ أَكَاذِيبُ. يَخْتَرِعُ ٱلشَّرَّ فِي كُلِّ حِينٍ. يَزْرَعُ خُصُومَاتٍ.

Contrariness [is] in his heart, devising evil at all times, He sends forth contentions.

١٥ 15 لِأَجْلِ ذَلِكَ بَغْتَةً تُفَاجِئُهُ بَلِيَّتُهُ. فِي لَحْظَةٍ يَنْكَسِرُ وَلَا شِفَاءَ.

Therefore his calamity comes suddenly, He is broken instantly—and no healing.

١٦ 16 هَذِهِ ٱلسِّتَّةُ يُبْغِضُهَا ٱلرَّبُّ، وَسَبْعَةٌ هِيَ مَكْرَهَةُ نَفْسِهِ:

These six has YHWH hated, Indeed, seven [are] abominations to His soul:

١٧ 17 عُيُونٌ مُتَعَالِيَةٌ، لِسَانٌ كَاذِبٌ، أَيْدٍ سَافِكَةٌ دَمًا بَرِيئًا،

High eyes, False tongues, And hands shedding innocent blood,

١٨ 18 قَلْبٌ يُنْشِئُ أَفْكَارًا رَدِيئَةً، أَرْجُلٌ سَرِيعَةُ ٱلْجَرَيَانِ إِلَى ٱلسُّوءِ،

A heart devising thoughts of vanity, Feet hastening to run to evil,

١٩ 19 شَاهِدُ زُورٍ يَفُوهُ بِٱلْأَكَاذِيبِ، وَزَارِعُ خُصُومَاتٍ بَيْنَ إِخْوَةٍ.

A false witness [who] breathes out lies, And one sending forth contentions between brothers.

٢٠ 20 يَا ٱبْنِي، ٱحْفَظْ وَصَايَا أَبِيكَ وَلَا تَتْرُكْ شَرِيعَةَ أُمِّكَ.

Keep, my son, the command of your father, And do not leave the law of your mother.

٢١ 21 اُرْبُطْهَا عَلَى قَلْبِكَ دَائِمًا. قَلِّدْ بِهَا عُنُقَكَ.

Bind them on your heart continually, Tie them on your neck.

٢٢ 22 إِذَا ذَهَبْتَ تَهْدِيكَ. إِذَا نِمْتَ تَحْرُسُكَ، وَإِذَا ٱسْتَيْقَظْتَ فَهِيَ تُحَدِّثُكَ.

In your going up and down, it leads you, In your lying down, it watches over you, And you have awoken—it talks [with] you.

٢٣ 23 لِأَنَّ ٱلْوَصِيَّةَ مِصْبَاحٌ، وَٱلشَّرِيعَةَ نُورٌ، وَتَوْبِيخَاتِ ٱلْأَدَبِ طَرِيقُ ٱلْحَيَاةِ.

For the command [is] a lamp, And the Law a light, And a way of life [are] reproofs of instruction,

٢٤ 24 لِحِفْظِكَ مِنَ ٱلْمَرْأَةِ ٱلشِّرِّيرَةِ، مِنْ مَلَقِ لِسَانِ ٱلْأَجْنَبِيَّةِ.

To preserve you from an evil woman, From the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman.

٢٥ 25 لَا تَشْتَهِيَنَّ جَمَالَهَا بِقَلْبِكَ، وَلَا تَأْخُذْكَ بِهُدُبِهَا.

Do not desire her beauty in your heart, And do not let her take you with her eyelids.

٢٦ 26 لِأَنَّهُ بِسَبَبِ ٱمْرَأَةٍ زَانِيَةٍ يَفْتَقِرُ ٱلْمَرْءُ إِلَى رَغِيفِ خُبْزٍ، وَٱمْرَأَةُ رَجُلٍ آخَرَ تَقْتَنِصُ ٱلنَّفْسَ ٱلْكَرِيمَةَ.

For a harlot consumes to a cake of bread, And an adulteress hunts the precious soul.

٢٧ 27 أَيَأْخُذُ إِنْسَانٌ نَارًا فِي حِضْنِهِ وَلَا تَحْتَرِقُ ثِيَابُهُ؟

Does a man take fire into his bosom, And are his garments not burned?

٢٨ 28 أَوَ يَمْشِي إِنْسَانٌ عَلَى ٱلْجَمْرِ وَلَا تَكْتَوِي رِجْلَاهُ؟

Does a man walk on the hot coals, And are his feet not scorched?

٢٩ 29 هَكَذَا مَنْ يَدْخُلُ عَلَى ٱمْرَأَةِ صَاحِبِهِ. كُلُّ مَنْ يَمَسُّهَا لَا يَكُونُ بَرِيئًا.

So [is] he who has gone in to the wife of his neighbor, None who touches her is innocent.

٣٠ 30 لَا يَسْتَخِفُّونَ بِٱلسَّارِقِ وَلَوْ سَرِقَ لِيُشْبِعَ نَفْسَهُ وَهُوَ جَوْعَانٌ.

They do not despise the thief, When he steals to fill his soul when he is hungry,

٣١ 31 إِنْ وُجِدَ يَرُدُّ سَبْعَةَ أَضْعَافٍ، وَيُعْطِي كُلَّ قِنْيَةِ بَيْتِهِ.

And being found he repays sevenfold, He gives all the substance of his house.

٣٢ 32 أَمَّا ٱلزَّانِي بِٱمْرَأَةٍ فَعَدِيمُ ٱلْعَقْلِ. ٱلْمُهْلِكُ نَفْسَهُ هُوَ يَفْعَلُهُ.

He who commits adultery [with] a woman lacks heart, He who does it is destroying his soul.

٣٣ 33 ضَرْبًا وَخِزْيًا يَجِدُ، وَعَارُهُ لَا يُمْحَى.

He finds a stroke and shame, And his reproach is not wiped away,

٣٤ 34 لِأَنَّ ٱلْغَيْرَةَ هِيَ حَمِيَّةُ ٱلرَّجُلِ، فَلَا يُشْفِقُ فِي يَوْمِ ٱلِٱنْتِقَامِ.

For jealousy [is] the fury of a man, And he does not spare in a day of vengeance.

٣٥ 35 لَا يَنْظُرُ إِلَى فِدْيَةٍ مَّا، وَلَا يَرْضَى وَلَوْ أَكْثَرْتَ ٱلرَّشْوَةَ.

He does not accept the appearance of any atonement, Indeed, he does not consent, Though you multiply bribes!