નીતિવચનો 1
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain to wise counsels:
To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
My son, hear the instruction of your father, and forsake not the law of your mother:
For they shall be an ornament of grace to your head, and chains about your neck.
My son, if sinners entice you, consent you not.
11 ૧૧ જો તેઓ કહે કે, “અમારી સાથે ચાલ, આપણે ખૂન કરવા માટે સંતાઈ રહીએ; આપણે નિર્દોષને વિનાકારણ હુમલો કરવાને છુપાઈ રહીએ.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privately for the innocent without cause:
12 ૧૨ શેઓલની જેમ આપણે તેઓને જીવતા અને જીવતા ગળી જઈએ, જાણે કે તેઓ કબરમાં ગરક થઈ ગયા હોય. (Sheol h7585)
Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: (Sheol h7585)
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Cast in your lot among us; let us all have one purse:
My son, walk not you in the way with them; refrain your foot from their path:
For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
18 ૧૮ આ માણસો પોતાને જ મારી નાખવાને માટે સંતાઈ રહે છે, તેઓ પોતાના જ જીવને માટે ગુપ્ત રીતે છુપાઈ રહે છે.
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privately for their own lives.
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of the owners thereof.
Wisdom cries without; she utters her voice in the streets:
She cries in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she utters her words, saying,
22 ૨૨ “હે અજ્ઞાનીઓ, તમે ક્યાં સુધી ભોળપણને વળગી રહેશો? ઓ ઠઠ્ઠા-મશ્કરી કરનારાઓ, તમે ક્યાં સુધી ઠઠ્ઠા-મશ્કરી કરવામાં આનંદ મેળવશો? અને ઓ મૂર્ખાઓ, તમે ક્યાં સુધી ડહાપણને ધિક્કારશો?
How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit to you, I will make known my words to you.
Because I have called, and you refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
But you have set at nothing all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 ૨૬ માટે તમારા પર મુશ્કેલીઓ આવશે ત્યારે હું હાસ્ય કરીશ, જ્યારે તમારા પર ભય આવશે ત્યારે હું તમારી મશ્કરી કરીશ.
I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;
27 ૨૭ એટલે જ્યારે તોફાનની જેમ તમારા પર ભય આવી પડશે અને વંટોળિયાની જેમ તમારા પર વિપત્તિઓ ધસી આવશે; જ્યારે સંકટ તથા વેદના તમારા પર આવશે, ત્યારે હું તમારી મશ્કરી કરીશ.
When your fear comes as desolation, and your destruction comes as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish comes on you.
Then shall they call on me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD:
They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
But whoever listens to me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
