The Rewards of Wisdom
1 My child, learn what I teach you and never forget what I tell you to do. 2 Listen to what is wise and try to understand it. 3 Yes, beg for knowledge; plead for insight. 4 Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure. 5 If you do, you will know what it means to fear the Lord and you will succeed in learning about God. 6 It is the Lord who gives wisdom; from him come knowledge and understanding. 7 He provides help and protection for those who are righteous and honest. 8 He protects those who treat others fairly, and guards those who are devoted to him.
9 If you listen to me, you will know what is right, just, and fair. You will know what you should do. 10 You will become wise, and your knowledge will give you pleasure. 11 Your insight and understanding will protect you 12 and prevent you from doing the wrong thing. They will keep you away from people who stir up trouble by what they say— 13 those who have abandoned a righteous life to live in the darkness of sin, 14 those who find pleasure in doing wrong and who enjoy senseless evil, 15 unreliable people who cannot be trusted.
16 You will be able to resist any immoral woman who tries to seduce you with her smooth talk, 17 who is faithless to her own husband and forgets her sacred vows. 18 If you go to her house, you are traveling the road to death. To go there is to approach the world of the dead. 19 No one who visits her ever comes back. He never returns to the road to life. 20 So you must follow the example of good people and live a righteous life. 21 Righteous people—people of integrity—will live in this land of ours. 22 But God will snatch the wicked from the land and pull sinners out of it like plants from the ground.
Ondaya younongo
1 Muatje wandje, yakura imbi mbi me ku hongo, nu o zembi ko imbi mbi me ku raere okutjita. 2 Puratena ku imbi mbi ri ovyounongo, nu u kondje okuvizuva nomutima auhe. 3 Ii, ningira ondjiviro, nu u riyarikaṋe ozondunge! 4 Paha ounongo tjinene otja tjotjo kondja okusa osilveri kehi yehi poo otja tjotjo paha otjihuze tjorive tji tja horekwa, 5 nove otji mo tjiwa kutja ondira ku Muhona mai hee tjike, nu otji mo yenene okukara nondjiviro ya Ndjambi. 6 Muhona ongu yandja ounongo; ku ye ku za ondjiviro nozondunge.
7 Eye onguri ombwiro yombatero noyondjamo kovandu ovasemba na ku imba ovaṱakame. 8 Eye u yama imba mbe tjita ousemba kovakwao, nu u tjevera ondjira yaimba mbe riyameka ku ye.
9 Tjinangara mo puratene ku ami, mo tjiwa ousemba nokutjita ousemba nouatjiri. Mo tjiwa ondjira ndji twara kouṋingandu. 10 Ove mo rire omunaunongo, nondjiviro yoye mai ku pe ondjoroka. 11 Oukengeze nozondunge zoye mavi ku tjevere navi ku yama, 12 nu mavi ku tjaere kourunde. Ovyo mavi ku yepisa novandu mba mbe tjita oumba nomahungi wawo wovizeze, 13 na imba mba isa ongarero ombwa nave kakara monḓorera youvi, 14 na imba mbe muna ondjoroka mokutjita ouvi nu mbe yorokera ouvi, 15 na imba mbe ryanga mozondjira ozongoko zotjiwova nave twara ozondjira zoposyo.
16 Ove mo yenene okupenga omukazendu womukweṋu ngu ma kondjo okukupopa nomambo omawa, 17 omukazendu ngu hi nouṱakame momurumendu we omuini, nu ngu zemba oruyano rwe rworukupo ndwa tjita komurungu wa Ndjambi. 18 Tji mo i kondjuwo ye, pa sana nokuyenda konḓiro. Okuyenda ngo oko okuryama popezu notjovakoke. 19 Avehe mbe yenda ku ye, kape na umwe wawo ngu kotoka; eye ka roro okukotoka kondjira yomuinyo. 20 Ove otji mo sokuhorera kotjikaro tjovandu ovawa nokukara mondjira yovasemba. 21 Orondu ovandu ovasemba, ovandu ovehinandjo, ombu mave tura mehi retu ndi. 22 Nungwari Ndjambi ma hakana ovarunde mehi, nu ma zukura ovanauvi mu ro otja ovihape mehi.
