Özdeyişler 26

¹Hasat zamanında çiy ve yazın yağmur nasıl yersizse, akılsıza verilen onur da öyle uygunsuzdur.

²Kuşların ve serçelerin uçup gitmesi gibi, boş bir lanet de kimsenin üzerine ulaşmaz.

³Ata kırbaç ve eşeğe üvendire neyse, yasa tanımaz ulus için değnek odur.

⁴Akılsıza onun akılsızlığına göre yanıt verme, yoksa sen de onun gibi olursun.

⁵Aksine, akılsıza kendi akılsızlığı uyarınca yanıt ver ki, kendi gözünde kendini bilge sanmasın.

⁶Akılsız bir ulağın eliyle mesaj gönderen kişi, kendi yollarından kendine utanç hazırlar.

⁷Bacakların yürüyüşünü ve akılsızların ağzından çıkan yasasızlığı kesip at.

⁸Sapanın içine taşı sımsıkı bağlayan kişi, akılsıza onur veren kişiye benzer.

⁹Sarhoşun elinde dikenler nasıl büyürse, akılsızların elinde de kölelik öyle büyür.

¹⁰Akılsızların tüm bedeni büyük fırtınalara tutulur; çünkü onların çılgınlığı yıkıma uğrar.

¹¹Bir köpek kendi kusmuğuna geri döndüğünde ve iğrenç hale geldiğinde nasılsa, akılsız da kendi kötülüğüyle günahına geri dönerek öyle olur.

⁰11α Günah getiren utanç vardır, onur ve lütuf getiren utanç da vardır.

¹²Kendi gözünde bilge olduğunu sanan bir adam gördüm; akılsızın ondan daha çok umudu vardır.

¹³Tembel yola gönderildiğinde şöyle der: «Yollarda aslan var, meydanlarda ise katiller var!»

¹⁴Kapı menteşesi üzerinde nasıl dönerse, tembel de yatağında öyle döner.

¹⁵Tembel elini koynuna daldırır da onu ağzına geri götürmeye gücü yetmez.

¹⁶Tembel, bolluk içinde haber getiren kişiden daha bilge görünür kendi gözünde.

¹⁷Köpeği kuyruğundan yakalayan kişi nasılsa, başkasının davasına karışan kişi de öyledir.

¹⁸Şifa verenlerin insanlara tatlı sözler sunması, ama bu söze ilk kanan kişinin tuzağa düşmesi gibi,

¹⁹dostlarına pusu kurup da yakalanınca «Şaka yapıyordum» diyen tüm insanlar da öyledir.

²⁰Odun çok olunca ateş gürler; iki dilli insan olmayınca da kavga yatışır.

²¹Kömür için ocak ve ateş için odun neyse, kavgayı alevlendirmek için kavgacı insan da odur.

²²Düzenbazların sözleri yumuşaktır, ama bunlar insanın ta bağrının derinliklerine işler.

²³Hileyle verilen gümüş toprak kap gibi sayılmalıdır; pürüzsüz dudaklar kötü bir yüreği gizler.

²⁴Ağlayıp sızlayan düşman dudaklarıyla her şeyi onaylar, ama yüreğinde hileler tasarlar.

²⁵Düşman sana yüksek sesle yalvarsa bile ona inanma; çünkü onun canında yedi kötülük vardır.

²⁶Düşmanlığını gizleyen kişi hile kurar, ama günahları meclislerde açıkça ortaya çıkar.

²⁷Komşusuna çukur kazan kendisi onun içine düşer; taşı yuvarlayan kendi üzerine yuvarlar.

²⁸Yalan söyleyen dil gerçekten nefret eder; korumasız ağız ise kargaşalar yaratır.

¹ΩΣΠΕΡ δρόσος ἐν ἀμήτῳ καὶ ὥσπερ ὑετὸς ἐν θέρει, οὕτως οὐκ ἔστιν ἄφρονι τιμή.

²ὥσπερ ὄρνεα πέταται καὶ στρουθοί, οὕτως ἀρὰ ματαία οὐκ ἐπελεύσεται οὐδενί.

³ὥσπερ μάστιξ ἵππῳ καὶ κέντρον ὄνῳ, οὕτως ῥάβδος ἔθνει παρανόμῳ.

⁴μὴ ἀποκρίνου ἄφρονι πρὸς τὴν ἐκείνου ἀφροσύνην, ἵνα μὴ ὅμοιος γένῃ αὐτῷ·

⁵ἀλλὰ ἀποκρίνου ἄφρονι κατὰ τὴν ἀφροσύνην αὐτοῦ, ἵνα μὴ φαίνηται σοφός παρ᾿ ἑαυτῷ.

⁶ἐκ τῶν ὁδῶν ἑαυτοῦ ὄνειδος ποιεῖται ὁ ἀποστείλας δι᾿ ἀγγέλου ἄφρονος λόγον.

⁷ἀφελοῦ πορείαν σκελῶν καὶ παρανομίαν ἐκ στόματος ἀφρόνων.

⁸ὃς ἀποδεσμεύει λίθον ἐν σφενδόνῃ, ὅμοιός ἐστι τῷ διδόντι ἄφρονι δόξαν.

⁹ἄκανθαι φύονται ἐν χειρὶ μεθύσου, δουλεία δὲ ἐν χειρὶ τῶν ἀφρόνων.

¹⁰πολλὰ χειμάζεται πᾶσα σάρξ ἀφρόνων· συντρίβεται γὰρ ἡ ἔκστασις αὐτῶν.

¹¹ὥσπερ κύων ὅταν ἐπέλθῃ ἐπὶ τὸν ἑαυτοῦ ἔμετον καὶ μισητὸς γένηται, οὕτως ἄφρων τῇ ἑαυτοῦ κακίᾳ ἀναστρέψας ἐπὶ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίαν. 11α ἔστιν αἰσχύνη ἐπάγουσα ἁμαρτίαν, καί ἐστιν αἰσχύνη δόξα καὶ χάρις.

¹²εἶδον ἄνδρα δόξαντα παρ᾿ αὑτῷ σοφὸν εἶναι, ἐλπίδα μέντοι ἔσχε μᾶλλον ἄφρων αὐτοῦ.

¹³λέγει ὀκνηρὸς ἀποστελλόμενος εἰς ὁδόν· λέων ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς, ἐν δὲ ταῖς πλατείαις φονευταί.

¹⁴ὥσπερ θύρα στρέφεται ἐπὶ τοῦ στρόφιγγος, οὕτως ὀκνηρὸς ἐπὶ τῆς κλίνης αὐτοῦ.

¹⁵κρύψας ὀκνηρὸς τὴν χεῖρα ἐν τῷ κόλπῳ αὐτοῦ, οὐ δυνήσεται ἐπενεγκεῖν ἐπὶ στόμα.

¹⁶σοφώτερος ἑαυτῷ ὀκνηρὸς φαίνεται τοῦ ἐν πλησμονῇ ἀποκομίζοντος ἀγγελίαν.

¹⁷ὥσπερ ὁ κρατῶν κέρκου κυνός, οὕτως ὁ προεστὼς ἀλλοτρίας κρίσεως.

¹⁸ὥσπερ οἱ ἰώμενοι προβάλλουσι λόγους εἰς ἀνθρώπους, ὁ δὲ ἀπαντήσας τῷ λόγῳ πρῶτος ὑποσκελισθήσεται,

¹⁹οὕτως πάντες οἱ ἐνεδρεύοντες τοὺς ἑαυτῶν φίλους, ὅταν δὲ ὁραθῶσι, λέγουσι ὅτι παίζων ἔπραξα.

²⁰ἐν πολλοῖς ξύλοις θάλλει πῦρ, ὅπου δὲ οὐκ ἔστι δίθυμος, ἡσυχάζει μάχη.

²¹ἐσχάρα ἄνθραξι καὶ ξύλα πυρί, ἀνὴρ δὲ λοίδορος εἰς ταραχὴν μάχης.

²²λόγοι κερκώπων μαλακοί, οὗτοι δὲ τύπτουσιν εἰς ταμιεῖα σπλάγχνων.

²³ἀργύριον διδόμενον μετὰ δόλου, ὥσπερ ὄστρακον ἡγητέον. χείλη λεῖα καρδίαν καλύπτει λυπηράν.

²⁴χείλεσι πάντα ἐπινεύει ἀποκλαιόμενος ἐχθρός, ἐν δὲ τῇ καρδίᾳ τεκταίνεται δόλους.

²⁵ἐάν σου δέηται ὁ ἐχθρὸς μεγάλῃ τῇ φωνῇ, μὴ πεισθῆς, ἑπτὰ γάρ εἰσι πονηρίαι ἐν τῇ ψυχῇ αὐτοῦ.

²⁶ὁ κρύπτων ἔχθραν συνίστησι δόλον, ἐκκαλύπτει δὲ τὰς ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίας εὔγνωστος ἐν συνεδρίοις.

²⁷ὁ ὀρύσσων βόθρον τῷ πλησίον ἐμπεσεῖται εἰς αὐτόν, ὁ δὲ κυλίων λίθον ἐφ᾿ ἑαυτὸν κυλίει.

²⁸γλῶσσα ψευδὴς μισεῖ ἀλήθειαν, στόμα δὲ ἄστεγον ποιεῖ ἀκαταστασίας.

¹As dew in harvest, and as rain in summer, so honour is not [seemly] for a fool.

²As birds and sparrows fly, so a curse shall not come upon any one without a cause.

³As a whip for a horse, and a goad for an ass, so [is] a rod for a simple nation.

⁴Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou become like him.

⁵Yet answer a fool according to his folly, lest he seem wise in his own conceit.

⁶He that sends a message by a foolish messenger procures for himself a reproach from his own ways.

⁷[As well] take away the motion of the legs, as transgression from the mouth of fools.

⁸He that binds up a stone in a sling, is like one that gives glory to a fool.

⁹Thorns grow in the hand of a drunkard, and servitude in the hand of fools.

¹⁰All the flesh of fools endures much hardship; for their fury is brought to nought.

¹¹As when a dog goes to his own vomit, and becomes abominable, so is fool who returns in his wickedness to his own sin. [[ 11α There is a shame that brings sin: and there is a shame [that is] glory and grace.]]

¹²I have seen a man who seemed to himself to be wise; but a fool had more hope than he.

¹³A sluggard when sent on a journey says, [There is] a lion in the ways, and [there are] murderers in the streets.

¹⁴As a door turns on the hinge, so does a sluggard on his bed.

¹⁵A sluggard having hid his hand in his bosom, will not be able to bring it up to his mouth.

¹⁶A sluggard seems to himself wiser than one who most satisfactorily brings back a message.

¹⁷As he that lays hold of a dog’s tail, so is he that makes himself the champion of another’s cause.

¹⁸As those who need correction put forth [fair] words to men, and he that first falls in with the proposal will be overthrown;

¹⁹so are all that lay wait for their own friends, and when they are discovered, say, I did it in jest.

²⁰With much wood fire increases; but where there is not a double-minded man, strife ceases.

²¹A hearth for coals, and wood for fire; and railing man for the tumult of strife.

²²The words of cunning knaves are soft; but they smite [even] to the inmost parts of the bowels.

²³Silver dishonestly given is to be considered as a potsherd: smooth lips cover a grievous heart.

²⁴A weeping enemy promises all things with his lips, but in his heart he contrives deceit.

²⁵Though [thine] enemy intreat thee with a loud voice, consent not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

²⁶He that hides enmity frames deceit: but being easily discerned, exposes his own sins in the public assemblies.

²⁷He that digs a pit for his neighbour shall fall into it: and he that rolls a stone, rolls it upon himself.

²⁸A lying tongue hates the truth; and an unguarded mouth causes tumults.