Proverbs 31
1 यी हितोउपदेशहरू राजा लमूएलले संग्रह गरेका हुन्, जुन तिनकी आमाले सिकाएकी हुन्;
2 तिमी मेरा छोरा हौ जसलाई म माया गर्छु। तिमी मैले भाकल गर्दा जन्मेका छोरा हौ।
3 स्त्रीहरूमाथि आफ्नो शक्ति खेर नफाल। स्त्रीहरूले राजालाई नष्ट पार्छन् यसर्थ तिनीहरू माथि आफैंलाई नहोम।
4 लमूएल, राजाको लागि दाखरस पिउनु असल होइन। शासकहरूले मदिरा पिउनु हुँदैन।
5 तिनीहरूले ज्यादै पिएर यस्तो हुनु सक्छन कि कानुनमा के भनिएकोछ भूल्न सक्छन्। यसरी तिनीहरूले गरीबहरूको सबै अधिकार खोस्न सक्छन्।
6 गरीब मानिसहरूलाई दाखमद्य देऊ अनि कष्टमा परेका मानिसहरूलाई मदिरा देऊ।
7 मदिरा पिएर गरीबहरूले आफ्नो गरीबी अनि कष्टलाई भुल्न देऊ।
8 तिनीहरूको निम्ति बोली देऊ जसले आफ्नो लागि बोल्न सक्दैनन् अनि ती अभावग्रस्त गरीबहरूको अधिकारको लागि बोली देऊ।
9 न्यायमा नहिचकिचाई बोली देऊ, गरीब र अभावग्रस्त मानिसहरूको अधिकारको रक्षा गर।
10 असल पत्नी पाउँन अतिनै गाह्रो हुन्छ किनभने एउटी आदर्श पत्नी, बहूमुल्य रत्नहरू भन्दा पनि मूल्यवान हुन्छे।
11 तिनको पतिले तिनी माथि पूरा भरोसा राख्छ अनि कहिल्यै गरीब हुनु पर्दैन।
12 आदर्श पत्निले आफ्नो पति सित असल व्यवहार र्गछिन् अनि जीवन भरी आफ्नो पतिको निम्ति विपत्ति ल्याउँदिनन्।
13 तिनी सधैं ऊनी तथा सूतीको लुगा बनाउनमा व्यस्त रहन्छिन्।
14 तिनी टाडा देशबाट आउने समुद्री जहाजले जस्तै, कहीबाट पनि भोजन लिएर घर आउँछिन्।
15 तिनी बिहानै उठी भोजन पकाउँछिन्, अनि आफ्नो परिवार र नोकर्नीहरूलाई बाडछिन्।
16 तिनी जमीन निरीक्षण र्गछिन् अनि उचित मूल्यमा किन्छिन् आफूले कमाएको पैसाबाट दाख रोप्छिन्।
17 तिनी अत्यन्तै परिश्रमी छिन् अनि सबै प्रकारको काम गर्नलाई सक्षम हुन्छिन्।
18 आफैंले बनाएका र उब्जाएका चीजहरूको व्यपार र्गछिन, र नाफा कमाउँछिन् अनि तिनी रातीसम्मा कडा परिश्रम र्गछिन्।
19 तिनीले आफैं धागो कात्छिन अनि आफ्नो घरको लागि लुगा बनाउँछिन्।
20 गरीबलाई सधैं दान दिन्छिन् अनि दीन-हीन मानिसहरूको खाँचो पूरा र्गछिन्।
21 हिऊँ पर्दा पनि आफ्नो परिवारको निम्ति चिन्ता गर्दिनन्। तिनले परिवारका सबैलाई तातो अनि असल लुगाहरू दिएकी छिन्।
22 तिनले च्यादर बुन्छिन् र ओछ्यानमा फिंजाउँछिन अनि आफूले सुन्दर नरम सुतीको लुगाहरू पहिरिन्छिन्।
23 उनका पतिलाई सबैले आदर गर्छन् किनभने तिनी त्यस ठाउँका नेताहरूमा एक हुन्।
24 तिनी कुशल व्यापारिनी हुन्, तिनी लुगा तथा पटुकाहरू बनाउछिन् र व्यापारीहरूलाई बेच्छिन्।
25 तिनी बलीयी अनि मर्यादित छिन्, तिनले भविष्यलाई हेरेर ढुक्क भएर हाँस्न सक्छिन्।
26 तिनको बोलीमा ज्ञान छ र तिनले मानिसहरूलाई मायालु तथा दयालु बन्न सिकाउँछिन्।
27 तिनले आफ्नो परिवारको कामको हेरविचार र्गछिन्। तिनले कहिले अल्छी गर्दिनन्।
28 तिनलाई आफ्नै बाल बच्चाले प्रशंसा गर्छन्, तिनको पतिले तिनी माथि गर्व गर्छन् र भन्छन्,
29 “संसारमा धेरै असल स्त्रीहरू छन् तर ती मध्ये तिमी नै सर्वश्रेष्ट हौ।”
30 आकर्षण र सौन्दर्य क्षणिक वस्तुहरू मात्र हुन्, तर जो स्त्रीले परमप्रभुको डर मान्छे उसको प्रशंसा गर्नु पर्छ।
31 तिनको योग्यताले पाउने इनाम तिनले पाउनु पर्छ अनि तिनले गरेको प्रशंसनीय कार्यहरूका निम्ति तिनी समाजमा प्रशंसित हुनै पर्छ।
1 The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him.
2 What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows?
3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; nor for princes strong drink:
5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, and pervert the judgment of any of the afflicted.
6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts.
7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, and remember his misery no more.
8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
14 She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.
17 She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.
18 She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
19 She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.
20 She stretcheth out her hand to the poor; yea, she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.
21 She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
22 She maketh herself coverings of tapestry; her clothing is silk and purple.
23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant.
25 Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.
26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
28 Her children arise up, and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth her.
29 Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
30 Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.
31 Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates.
1 And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters asswaged;
2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;
3 And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated.
4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.
5 And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.
6 And it came to pass at the end of forty days, that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made:
7 And he sent forth a raven, which went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;
9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.
10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth was an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
12 And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
13 And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
14 And in the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.
15 And God spake unto Noah, saying,
16 Go forth of the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.
17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
18 And Noah went forth, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him:
19 Every beast, every creeping thing, and every fowl, and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth, after their kinds, went forth out of the ark.
20 And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
21 And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
22 While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.