Sananlaskujen 26
1 Yhtä vähän kuin lumi kesällä ja sade elonaikana soveltuu tyhmälle kunnia.
Just [like] [SIM] [it is not appropriate for] snow [to fall] in summer time, or rain [to fall] at harvest time, it is not appropriate to praise/honor foolish people.
2 Kuin liitävä lintu, kuin lentävä pääskynen on aiheeton kirous: ei se toteen käy.
Like [SIM] birds that fly by [and do not alight/land on anything], if someone curses you, it cannot hurt you if you (do not deserve them/have not done to him what is wrong).
3 Hevoselle ruoska, aasille suitset, tyhmille vitsa selkään!
It is necessary to whip a horse and to put a bridle on a donkey [to force them to go where we want them to go], and similarly [SIM] [it is often necessary to strike] foolish people with a stick [to cause them to do what is right].
4 Älä vastaa tyhmälle hänen hulluutensa mukaan, ettet olisi hänen kaltaisensa sinäkin.
If a foolish person asks a foolish question, [do not answer him], because [if you answer his question], you are just as foolish as he is.
5 Vastaa tyhmälle hänen hulluutensa mukaan, ettei hän itseänsä viisaana pitäisi.
If you give a foolish answer to someone who asks a foolish question, he will realize that he is (not very wise/foolish).
6 Jalat altaan katkaisee ja vääryyttä saa juoda, joka sanan lähettää tyhmän mukana.
Anyone who asks a foolish person to take a message to someone [is himself doing something as foolish as] cutting off his own feet or drinking poison.
7 Velttoina riippuvat halvatun sääret; samoin sananlasku tyhmäin suussa.
A lame man cannot use his legs, and similarly [SIM] [it is useless for] a foolish person to speak [MTY] (proverbs/wise sayings).
8 Yhtä kuin sitoisi kiven linkoon kiinni, on antaa kunniaa tyhmälle.
Tying a stone in a sling [so that it cannot be thrown at a target] is [as foolish as] [SIM] honoring a foolish person.
9 Kuin ohdake, joka on osunut juopuneen käteen, on sananlasku tyhmäin suussa.
If a drunk person waves some thorns/brambles with his hand, [he is not able to accomplish anything useful by doing that] (OR, [he does not feel it when a thorn sticks in his hand]); similarly, if foolish people speak [MTY] proverbs, [they do not help anyone who hears them].
10 Kuin jousimies, joka kaikkia haavoittaa, on se, joka tyhmän pestaa, kulkureita pestaa.
A man who shoots arrows [to try] to wound everybody who is near [is foolish]; similarly, anyone who hires a foolish person [who passes by is very foolish].
11 Kuin koira, joka palajaa oksennuksilleen, on tyhmä, joka yhä uusii hulluuksiansa.
A foolish person will foolishly do something stupid a second time; it is [like] [SIM] a dog returning to [eat] what it has vomited.
12 Näet miehen, viisaan omissa silmissään-enemmän on toivoa tyhmästä kuin hänestä.
[God] can help/bless foolish people more easily than he can help/bless people who are not wise [RHQ], but think that they are wise.
13 Laiska sanoo: "Tuolla tiellä on leijona, jalopeura torien vaiheilla".
Lazy people [just stay inside their houses and do nothing]; [they keep] saying “[I think] there is a lion in the street!”
14 Ovi saranoillaan kääntyilee, laiska vuoteellansa.
A door [continually] swings back and forth on its hinges [and does not go anywhere]; similarly [SIM], lazy people [just continually turn over] in their beds [and never do anything].
15 Laiska pistää kätensä vatiin; ei viitsi sitä viedä suuhunsa jälleen.
Some people are extremely lazy; they put their hand in a dish [to get some food] but do not [even] lift the food up to their mouths.
16 Laiska on omissa silmissään viisaampi kuin seitsemän, jotka vastaavat taitavasti.
Lazy people think that they are wiser than seven/several people who can answer [others’ questions] with good sense.
17 Kulkukoiraa korviin tarttuu se, joka syrjäisten riidasta suuttuu.
Anyone who (meddles/involves himself) in a quarrel that does not concern him is [as foolish as] [SIM] someone who tries to grab a passing dog by its ears.
18 Kuin mieletön, joka ammuskelee tulisia surmannuolia,
Crazy people who shoot burning arrows to kill people
19 on mies, joka pettää lähimmäisensä ja sanoo: "Leikillähän minä sen tein".
are as foolish as those who deceive someone else and [then] say, “I was only joking.”
20 Halkojen loppuessa sammuu tuli, ja panettelijan poistuessa taukoaa tora.
If there is no [more] firewood [to put on the fire], the fire will go out; similarly [SIM], if there are no people who (gossip/tell people things that are not true), quarreling will end.
21 Hehkuksi hiilet, tuleksi halot, riidan lietsomiseksi toraisa mies.
[Putting] charcoal on burning coals or [putting] wood on a fire [causes the fire to keep burning]; similarly, people who like to quarrel cause people to keep arguing.
22 Panettelijan puheet ovat kuin herkkupalat ja painuvat sisusten kammioihin asti.
People [enjoy listening to what gossips say about others just like] [SIM] they enjoy tasty food; they [enjoy listening to what gossips tell them like] they enjoy swallowing tasty food.
23 Kuin hopeasilaus saviastian pinnalla ovat hehkuvat huulet ja paha sydän.
People who say nice things when they are thinking about doing evil things are like a nice glaze/covering on a [cheap] clay pot.
24 Vihamies teeskentelee huulillaan, mutta hautoo petosta sydämessänsä.
Those who hate someone and are saying [MTY] something very different from what they are thinking are hypocrites; they are only planning [to harm that person].
25 Jos hän muuttaa suloiseksi äänensä, älä häntä usko, sillä seitsemän kauhistusta hänellä on sydämessä.
When they say nice things, do not believe them, because in their inner beings are many things that [Yahweh] hates.
26 Vihamielisyys kätkeytyy kavalasti, mutta seurakunnan kokouksessa sen pahuus paljastuu.
They try to deceive people to cause them to think that they do not hate [that person], but in a public meeting, the people will find out the evil things [that they have done].
27 Joka kuopan kaivaa, se itse siihen lankeaa; ja joka kiveä vierittää, sen päälle se takaisin vyörähtää.
Those who dig a deep pit [for other people to fall into] will fall into it themselves; rocks will roll down on those who start to cause rocks to roll down [to crush someone].
28 Valheellinen kieli vihaa omia ruhjomiansa, ja liukas suu saa turmiota aikaan.
Those [MTY] who tell lies to others [really] hate them, and those who deceive [others] ruin them.
