প্রবচন 8
Does not wisdom call out, and prudence bestow her voice?
At the summits and the tops of exalted places, standing above the ways, in the midst of the paths,
beside the gates of the city, at the very doors, she speaks, saying:
“O men, to you I call out, and my voice is to the sons of men.
5 ৫ যিসকল শিক্ষিত নহয়, তেওঁলোকে সুবুদ্ধিক বুজা উচিত, আৰু যিসকলে জ্ঞানক ঘিণ কৰে, তেওঁলোকৰ সুবিবেচনাৰ হৃদয় থকা উচিত।
O little ones, understand discernment. And you who are unwise, turn your souls.
Listen, for I will speak about great things, and my lips will be opened, so as to foretell what is right.
My throat shall practice truth, and my lips shall detest the impious.
All my words are just. There is no depravity in them, and no perversity.
9 ৯ যি সকলে বুজি পাই, তেওঁলোকৰ কাৰণে মোৰ কথাবোৰ স্পষ্ট; যি সকলে জ্ঞান লাভ কৰে, তেওঁলোকৰ কাৰণে মোৰ কথাবোৰ সত্য।
They are upright to those who understand, and equitable to those who discover knowledge.
Accept my discipline, and not money. Choose the doctrine that is greater than gold.
For wisdom is better than all that is most precious, and everything that is desirable cannot compare to her.
I, wisdom, dwell in counsel, and I am inside learned thoughts.
The fear of the Lord hates evil. I detest arrogance, and pride, and every wicked way, and a mouth with a double tongue.
Counsel is mine, and equity. Prudence is mine. Strength is mine.
15 ১৫ মোৰ দ্বাৰাই ৰজাসকলে ৰাজত্ব কৰে, অভিজাত লোকসকল আৰু ন্যায়েৰে যিসকল লোকে শাসন কৰে, সেইসকলো মোৰেই।
Through me, kings reign and legislators decree just conditions.
Through me, princes rule and the powerful decree justice.
17 ১৭ যিসকলে মোক প্ৰেম কৰে, ময়ো তেওঁলোকক প্ৰেম কৰোঁ, আৰু যিসকলে মোক আগ্রহেৰে বিচাৰে, তেওঁলোকে মোক বিচাৰি পায়।
I love those who love me. And those who stand watch for me until morning shall discover me.
With me, are wealth and glory, superb riches and justice.
For my fruit is better than gold and precious stones, and my progeny better than choice silver.
I walk in the way of justice, in the midst of the paths of judgment,
so that I may enrich those who love me, and thus complete their treasures.
The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his ways, before he made anything, from the beginning.
I was ordained from eternity, and out of antiquity, before the earth was formed.
The abyss did not yet exist, and I was already conceived; neither had the fountains of waters yet erupted.
The mountains, with their great mass, had not yet been established. Before the hills, I was brought forth.
26 ২৬ যিহোৱাই পৃথিৱী বা পথাৰবোৰ সৃষ্টিৰ কৰাৰ আগতে, এনেকি পৃথিৱীত উৎপন্ন হোৱা প্রথম ধূলিৰ আগতে মোৰ জন্ম হৈছিল।
Still he had not made the earth, and the rivers, and the poles of the globe of the earth.
27 ২৭ তেওঁ স্বৰ্গ স্থাপন কৰা সময়ত, আৰু তেওঁ অগাধ জলত দিগন্তৰ সীমা নিৰূপণ কৰোঁতে, মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ।
I was already present: when he prepared the heavens; when, with a certain law and a circuit, he fortified the abyss;
28 ২৮ তেওঁ যেতিয়া আকাশ-মণ্ডল স্থাপন কৰিছিল, আৰু যেতিয়া গভীৰ ভুমুকবোৰ সৃষ্টি কৰিছিল, তেতিয়া মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ।
when he made firm the sky above, and set free the fountains of waters;
29 ২৯ সাগৰ সীমা নিৰূপণ কৰাৰ আগেয়ে মই সেই ঠাইত আছিলোঁ, সেয়ে সাগৰৰ পানী তেওঁ আজ্ঞা কৰা ঠাইৰ বাহিৰে আন ঠাইত যেন প্লাৱিত নহয়। আৰু যেতিয়া তেওঁ পৃথিবীৰ মূল ক’ত স্থাপন হব আদেশ দিছিল।
when he encompassed the sea within its limits, and laid down a law for the waters, lest they transgress their limits; when he weighed the foundations of the earth.
30 ৩০ তেতিয়া মই তেওঁৰ লগত প্ৰধান শিল্পকাৰ ৰূপে আছিলোঁ, আৰু মই দিনৰ পাচত দিন তেওঁত আনন্দ কৰিছিলোঁ, সদায় তেওঁৰ আগত প্রশংসা কৰিছিলোঁ।
I was with him in composing all things. And I was delighted, throughout every day, by playing in his sight at all times,
playing in globe of the earth. And my delight was to be with the sons of men.
Therefore, sons, hear me now. Blessed are those who preserve my ways.
Listen to discipline, and become wise, and do not be willing to cast it aside.
34 ৩৪ যিজনে মোৰ কথা শুনে, তেওঁ আনন্দিত হ’ব- মোৰ দুৱাৰত প্রতি দিনে পৰ দি থাকিব, মোৰ ঘৰৰ দুৱাৰৰ কাষত মোৰ বাবে অপেক্ষা কৰি থাকিব।
Blessed is the man who listens to me, and who stands watch at my gates every day, and who observes at the posts of my doors.
He who finds me, finds life, and he will draw salvation from the Lord.
36 ৩৬ কিন্তু যি জনে মোক বিচাৰি নাপায়, তেওঁ নিজৰ অনিষ্ট কৰে। যিসকলোৱে মোক ঘিণ কৰে, তেওঁলোকে মৃত্যুক ভাল পায়।”
But he who sins against me will wound his own soul. All who hate me love death.”
