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| 1 أَمْثَالُ سُلَيْمَانَ بْنِ دَاوُدَ مَلِكِ إِسْرَائِيلَ: | 1 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel; |
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| 2 لِمَعْرِفَةِ حِكْمَةٍ وَأَدَبٍ. لإِدْرَاكِ أَقْوَالِ الْفَهْمِ. | 2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding; |
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| 3 لِقُبُولِ تَأْدِيبِ الْمَعْرِفَةِ وَالْعَدْلِ وَالْحَقِّ وَالاسْتِقَامَةِ. | 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity; |
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| 4 لِتُعْطِيَ الْجُهَّالَ ذَكَاءً، وَالشَّابَّ مَعْرِفَةً وَتَدَبُّرًا. | 4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. |
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| 5 يَسْمَعُهَا الْحَكِيمُ فَيَزْدَادُ عِلْمًا، وَالْفَهِيمُ يَكْتَسِبُ تَدْبِيرًا. | 5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: |
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| 6 لِفَهْمِ الْمَثَلِ وَاللُّغْزِ، أَقْوَالِ الْحُكَمَاءِ وَغَوَامِضِهِمْ. | 6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings. |
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| 7 مَخَافَةُ الرَّبِّ رَأْسُ الْمَعْرِفَةِ، أَمَّا الْجَاهِلُونَ فَيَحْتَقِرُونَ الْحِكْمَةَ وَالأَدَبَ. | 7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction. |
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| 8 اِسْمَعْ يَا ابْنِي تَأْدِيبَ أَبِيكَ، وَلاَ تَرْفُضْ شَرِيعَةَ أُمِّكَ، | 8 My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother: |
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| 9 لأَنَّهُمَا إِكْلِيلُ نِعْمَةٍ لِرَأْسِكَ، وَقَلاَئِدُ لِعُنُقِكَ. | 9 For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck. |
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الحثّ على اقتناء الحكمة | |
| 10 يَا ابْنِي، إِنْ تَمَلَّقَكَ الْخُطَاةُ فَلاَ تَرْضَ. | 10 My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. |
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| 11 إِنْ قَالُوا: «هَلُمَّ مَعَنَا لِنَكْمُنْ لِلدَّمِ. لِنَخْتَفِ لِلْبَرِيءِ بَاطِلاً. | 11 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: |
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| 12 لِنَبْتَلِعْهُمْ أَحْيَاءً كَالْهَاوِيَةِ، وَصِحَاحًا كَالْهَابِطِينَ فِي الْجُبِّ، | 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit: |
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| 13 فَنَجِدَ كُلَّ قِنْيَةٍ فَاخِرَةٍ، نَمْلأَ بُيُوتَنَا غَنِيمَةً. | 13 We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil: |
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| 14 تُلْقِي قُرْعَتَكَ وَسْطَنَا. يَكُونُ لَنَا جَمِيعًا كِيسٌ وَاحِدٌ». | 14 Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse: |
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| 15 يَا ابْنِي، لاَ تَسْلُكْ فِي الطَّرِيقِ مَعَهُمْ. اِمْنَعْ رِجْلَكَ عَنْ مَسَالِكِهِمْ. | 15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path: |
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| 16 لأَنَّ أَرْجُلَهُمْ تَجْرِي إِلَى الشَّرِّ وَتُسْرِعُ إِلَى سَفْكِ الدَّمِ. | 16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood. |
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| 17 لأَنَّهُ بَاطِلاً تُنْصَبُ الشَّبَكَةُ فِي عَيْنَيْ كُلِّ ذِي جَنَاحٍ. | 17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird. |
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| 18 أَمَّا هُمْ فَيَكْمُنُونَ لِدَمِ أَنْفُسِهِمْ. يَخْتَفُونَ لأَنْفُسِهِمْ. | 18 And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. |
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| 19 هكَذَا طُرُقُ كُلِّ مُولَعٍ بِكَسْبٍ. يَأْخُذُ نَفْسَ مُقْتَنِيهِ. | 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof. |
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التحذير من رفض الحكمة | |
| 20 اَلْحِكْمَةُ تُنَادِي فِي الْخَارِجِ. فِي الشَّوَارِعِ تُعْطِي صَوْتَهَا. | 20 Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: |
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| 21 تَدْعُو فِي رُؤُوسِ الأَسْوَاقِ، فِي مَدَاخِلِ الأَبْوَابِ. فِي الْمَدِينَةِ تُبْدِي كَلاَمَهَا | 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, |
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| 22 قَائِلَةً: «إِلَى مَتَى أَيُّهَا الْجُهَّالُ تُحِبُّونَ الْجَهْلَ، وَالْمُسْتَهْزِئُونَ يُسَرُّونَ بِالاسْتِهْزَاءِ، وَالْحَمْقَى يُبْغِضُونَ الْعِلْمَ؟ | 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? |
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| 23 اِرْجِعُوا عِنْدَ تَوْبِيخِي. هأَنَذَا أُفِيضُ لَكُمْ رُوحِي. أُعَلِّمُكُمْ كَلِمَاتِي. | 23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. |
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| 24 «لأَنِّي دَعَوْتُ فَأَبَيْتُمْ، وَمَدَدْتُ يَدِي وَلَيْسَ مَنْ يُبَالِي، | 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; |
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| 25 بَلْ رَفَضْتُمْ كُلَّ مَشُورَتِي، وَلَمْ تَرْضَوْا تَوْبِيخِي. | 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: |
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| 26 فَأَنَا أَيْضًا أَضْحَكُ عِنْدَ بَلِيَّتِكُمْ. أَشْمَتُ عِنْدَ مَجِيءِ خَوْفِكُمْ. | 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; |
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| 27 إِذَا جَاءَ خَوْفُكُمْ كَعَاصِفَةٍ، وَأَتَتْ بَلِيَّتُكُمْ كَالزَّوْبَعَةِ، إِذَا جَاءَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ شِدَّةٌ وَضِيقٌ. | 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. |
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| 28 حِينَئِذٍ يَدْعُونَنِي فَلاَ أَسْتَجِيبُ. يُبَكِّرُونَ إِلَيَّ فَلاَ يَجِدُونَنِي. | 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: |
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| 29 لأَنَّهُمْ أَبْغَضُوا الْعِلْمَ وَلَمْ يَخْتَارُوا مَخَافَةَ الرَّبِّ. | 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: |
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| 30 لَمْ يَرْضَوْا مَشُورَتِي. رَذَلُوا كُلَّ تَوْبِيخِي. | 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. |
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| 31 فَلِذلِكَ يَأْكُلُونَ مِنْ ثَمَرِ طَرِيقِهِمْ، وَيَشْبَعُونَ مِنْ مُؤَامَرَاتِهِمْ. | 31 Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. |
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| 32 لأَنَّ ارْتِدَادَ الْحَمْقَى يَقْتُلُهُمْ، وَرَاحَةَ الْجُهَّالِ تُبِيدُهُمْ. | 32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. |
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| 33 أَمَّا الْمُسْتَمِعُ لِي فَيَسْكُنُ آمِنًا، وَيَسْتَرِيحُ مِنْ خَوْفِ الشَّرِّ». | 33 But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. |
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