< الأمثال 1 >
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
لِتَعْلِيمِ الْحِكْمَةِ وَالْفَهْمِ، وَإِدْرَاكِ مَعَانِي الْأَقْوَالِ الْمَأْثُورَةِ. | ٢ 2 |
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
وَلِلْحَثِّ عَلَى تَقَبُّلِ التَّأْدِيبِ الْفَطِنِ، وَالْبِرِّ وَالْعَدْلِ وَالاسْتِقَامَةِ. | ٣ 3 |
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
فَيُحْرِزُ الْبُسَطَاءُ فِطْنَةً، وَالأَحْدَاثُ عِلْماً وَبَصِيرَةً. | ٤ 4 |
To give prudence to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
يَسْتَمِعُ إِلَيْهَا الْحَكِيمُ فَيَزْدَادُ حِكْمَةً، وَيَكْتَسِبُ الْفَهِيمُ مَهَارَةً، | ٥ 5 |
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
فِي فَهْمِ الْمَثَلِ وَالْمَعْنَى الْبَلِيغِ وَأَقْوَالِ الْحُكَمَاءِ الْمَأْثُورَةِ وَأَحَاجِيهِمْ. | ٦ 6 |
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
فَإِنَّ مَخَافَةَ الرَّبِّ هِيَ رَأْسُ الْمَعْرِفَةِ، أَمَّا الْحَمْقَى فَيَسْتَهِينُونَ بِالْحِكْمَةِ وَالتَّأْدِيبِ. | ٧ 7 |
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
اسْتَمِعْ يَاابْنِي إِلَى تَوْجِيهِ أَبِيكَ وَلاَ تَتَنَكَّرْ لِتَعْلِيمِ أُمِّكَ. | ٨ 8 |
My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
فَإِنَّهُمَا إِكْلِيلُ نِعْمَةٍ يُتَوِّجُ رَأْسَكَ، وَقَلاَئِدُ تُطَوِّقُ عُنُقَكَ. | ٩ 9 |
For they shall be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
يَاابْنِي إِنِ اسْتَغْوَاكَ الْخُطَاةُ فَلاَ تَقْبَلْ. | ١٠ 10 |
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
إِنْ قَالُوا: «تَعَالَ مَعَنَا لِنَتَرَبَّصَ بِالنَّاسِ حَتَّى نَسْفُكَ دِمَاءً أَوْ نَكْمُنَ لِلْبَرِيءِ وَنَقْتُلَهُ لِغَيْرِ عِلَّةٍ. | ١١ 11 |
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause:
أَوْ قَالُوا لَكَ: تَعَالَ لِنَبْتَلِعَهُمْ أَحْيَاءً كَمَا تَبْتَلِعُهُمُ الْهَاوِيَةُ وَأَصِحَّاءَ كَالْهَابِطِينَ فِي حُفْرَةِ الْمَوْتِ (Sheol ) | ١٢ 12 |
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: (Sheol )
فَنَغْنَمَ كُلَّ نَفِيسٍ وَنَمْلأَ بُيُوتَنَا بِالأَسْلاَبِ. | ١٣ 13 |
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
ارْبِطْ مَصِيرَكَ بِمَصِيرِنَا، وَلْنَتَقَاسَمْ أَسْلاَبَنَا بِالتَّسَاوِي». | ١٤ 14 |
Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
إِنْ قَالُوا لَكَ هَكَذَا فَلاَ تَسْلُكْ يَاابْنِي فِي طَرِيقِهِمْ، وَاكْفُفْ قَدَمَكَ عَنْ سَبِيلِهِمْ. | ١٥ 15 |
My son, walk not thou in the way with them; keep thy foot from their path:
لأَنَّ أَرْجُلَهُمْ تَسْعَى حَثِيثاً إِلَى الشَّرِّ، وَتُسْرِعُ إِلَى سَفْكِ الدِّمَاءِ. | ١٦ 16 |
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
فَإِنَّهُ عَبَثاً تُنْصَبُ الشَّبَكَةُ عَلَى مَرْأَى الطَّيْرِ. | ١٧ 17 |
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
إِنَّمَا هُمْ يَتَرَبَّصُونَ لِسَفْكِ دَمِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ، وَيَكْمُنُونَ لإِهْدَارِ حَيَاتِهِمْ. | ١٨ 18 |
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk secretly for their own lives.
هَذَا هُوَ مَصِيرُ كُلِّ مَنْ يَثْرَى ظُلْماً، فَإِنَّ الثَّرَاءَ الْحَرَامَ يَذْهَبُ بِحَيَاةِ قَانِيهِ. | ١٩ 19 |
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.
تُنَادِي الْحِكْمَةُ فِي الْخَارِجِ؛ وَفِي الأَسْوَاقِ تَرْفَعُ صَوْتَهَا. | ٢٠ 20 |
Wisdom crieth outside; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
عِنْدَ مُفْتَرَقَاتِ الطُّرُقِ الْمُزْدَحِمَةِ تَهْتِفُ، وَفِي مَدَاخِلِ بَوَّابَاتِ الْمَدِينَةِ تُرَدِّدُ أَقْوَالَهَا: | ٢١ 21 |
She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying,
«إِلَى مَتَى أَيُّهَا الْجُهَّالُ تَظَلُّونَ مُوْلَعِينَ بِالسَّذَاجَةِ، وَالسَّاخِرُونَ تُسَرُّونَ بِالسُّخْرِيَةِ، وَالْحَمْقَى بِكَرَاهِيَةِ الْمَعْرِفَةِ؟ | ٢٢ 22 |
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
إِنْ رَجَعْتُمْ عِنْدَ تَوْبِيخِي وَتُبْتُمْ، أَسْكُبْ عَلَيْكُمْ رُوحِي وَأُعَلِّمْكُمْ كَلِمَاتِي. | ٢٣ 23 |
Turn ye at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known to you my words.
وَلَكِنْ لأَنَّكُمْ أَبَيْتُمْ دَعْوَتِي، وَرَفَضْتُمْ يَدِي الْمَمْدُودَةَ إِلَيْكُمْ، | ٢٤ 24 |
Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
وَتَجَاهَلْتُمْ كُلَّ نَصَائِحِي وَلَمْ تَقْبَلُوا تَوْبِيخِي، | ٢٥ 25 |
But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and rejected my reproof:
فَأَنَا أَيْضاً أَسْخَرُ عِنْدَ مُصَابِكُمْ، وَأَشْمَتُ عِنْدَ حُلُولِ بَلِيَّتِكُمْ. | ٢٦ 26 |
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
عِنْدَمَا تَجْتَاحُكُمُ الْبَلِيَّةُ كَالْعَاصِفَةِ، وَتَحُلُّ بِكُمُ الْكَارِثَةُ كَالزَّوْبَعَةِ، عِنْدَمَا يَعْتَرِيكُمْ ضِيقٌ وَشِدَّةٌ، | ٢٧ 27 |
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
حِينَئِذٍ يَسْتَغِيثُونَ بِي فَلاَ أَسْتَجِيبُ، وَيَلْتَمِسُونَنِي فَلاَ يَجِدُونَنِي. | ٢٨ 28 |
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
لأَنَّهُمْ كَرِهُوا الْمَعْرِفَةَ وَلَمْ يُؤْثِرُوا مَخَافَةَ الرَّبِّ، | ٢٩ 29 |
Because they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
وَتَنَكَّرُوا لِكُلِّ مَشُورَتِي، وَاسْتَخَفُّوا بِتَوْبِيخِي. | ٣٠ 30 |
They rejected my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
لِذَلِكَ يَأْكُلُونَ ثِمَارَ أَعْمَالِهِمِ الْمُرَّةَ، وَيَشْبَعُونَ مِنْ عَوَاقِبِ مُؤَامَرَاتِهِمْ | ٣١ 31 |
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
لأَنَّ ضَلالَ الحَمْقَى يَقْتُلُهُمْ، وَتَرَ فَ الجُهَّالِ يُهْلِكُهُمْ. | ٣٢ 32 |
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
أَمَّا الْمُسْتَمِعُ لِي فَيَسْكُنُ آمِناً مُطْمَئِنّاً لاَ يُصِيبُهُ خَوْفٌ مِنَ الشَّرِّ». | ٣٣ 33 |
But whoever hearkeneth to me shall dwell in safety, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.