হিতোপদেশ 6
1 ১ আমার পুত্র, তুমি যদি তোমার অর্থ সরিয়ে রাখো যেমন তোমার প্রতিবেশীর জামিন হয়ে থাক, যদি তুমি কাউকে ঋণ দেবার জন্য প্রতিশ্রুতি দিয়ে থাক, তবে তুমি তা জানো না,
My son, if you set aside your money as a guarantee for your neighbor's loan, if you gave your promise for a loan of someone you do not know,
then you have laid a trap for yourself by your promise and you have been caught by the words of your mouth.
3 ৩ এই ব্যাপারে, আমার পুত্র, এটা কর এবং নিজেকে রক্ষা কর; কারণ তুমি তোমার প্রতিবেশীর দয়ার পাত্র হয়েছ, যাও এবং নিজেকে নত কর এবং তোমাকে মুক্ত করতে প্রতিবেশীর কাছে ভিক্ষা চাও;
When you are caught by your words, my son, do this and save yourself, since you have fallen into the hand of your neighbor; go and humble yourself and make your case before your neighbor.
Give your eyes no sleep and your eyelids no slumber.
Save yourself like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the hand of the fowler.
Look at the ant, you lazy person, consider her ways, and be wise.
It has no commander, officer, or ruler,
yet it prepares its food in the summer and during the harvest it stores up what it will eat.
How long will you sleep, you lazy person? When will you rise from your sleep?
“A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest”—
and your poverty will come like a robber and your needs like an armed soldier.
A worthless person—a wicked man— lives by the crookedness of his speech,
winking his eyes, making signals with his feet and pointing with his fingers.
He plots evil with deceit in his heart; he always stirs up discord.
Therefore his disaster will overtake him in an instant; in a moment he will be broken beyond healing.
There are six things that Yahweh hates, seven that are disgusting to him.
The eyes of a proud person, a tongue that lies, hands that shed the blood of innocent people,
a heart that invents wicked schemes, feet that quickly run to do evil,
a witness who breathes out lies and one who sows discord among brothers.
My son, obey the command of your father and do not forsake the teaching of your mother.
Always bind them on your heart; tie them about your neck.
22 ২২ যখন তুমি হাঁটবে তারা তোমাকে পথ দেখাবে, যখন তুমি ঘুমাবে, তারা তোমার দিকে নজর রাখবে এবং তুমি যখন জেগে থাকবে, তারা তোমাকে শিক্ষা দেবে।
When you walk, they will guide you; when you sleep, they will watch over you; and when you wake up, they will teach you.
For the commands are a lamp, and the teaching is a light; the corrections that come by instruction are the way of life.
It keeps you from the immoral woman, from the smooth words of an immoral woman.
Do not lust in your heart after her beauty and do not let her capture you with her eyelashes.
26 ২৬ একজন বেশ্যার সঙ্গে শোয়ার মূল্য একবেলা খাবারের দামের সমান হতে পারে, কিন্তু পরের স্ত্রী [মানুষের] মহামূল্য প্রাণ শিকার করে।
Sleeping with a prostitute can cost the price of a loaf of bread, but the wife of another may cost you your very life.
Can a man carry a fire against his chest without burning his clothes?
Can a man walk on hot coals without scorching his feet?
29 ২৯ সেরকম যে প্রতিবেশীর স্ত্রীর কাছে যায়; যে কারোর তার সঙ্গে সম্পর্ক থাকে, সে অদন্ডিত হয়ে যাবে না।
So is the man who sleeps with his neighbor's wife; the one who sleeps with her will not go unpunished.
30 ৩০ যখন সে ক্ষুধার্ত থাকে তার প্রয়োজনীয়তা মেটাবার জন্য যদি সে চুরি করে, লোকেরা সেই চোরকে অবজ্ঞা করে না।
People do not despise a thief if he steals to satisfy his need when he is hungry.
31 ৩১ কিন্তু যদি সে ধরা পড়ে, সে সাত গুণ ফিরিয়ে দেবে যা সে চুরি করেছে, সে অবশ্যই তার বাড়ির সব মূল্য দেবে।
Yet if he is caught, he will pay back seven times what he stole; he must give up everything of value in his house.
The one who commits adultery has no sense; the one who does it destroys himself.
Wounds and shame are what he deserves and his disgrace will not be wiped away.
For jealousy makes a man furious; he will show no mercy when he takes his revenge.
He will accept no compensation and he cannot be bought off, though you offer him many gifts.
