Proverbs are short sayings that give wisdom or teach a truth. People enjoy proverbs because they give a lot of wisdom in few words. Proverbs in the Bible often use metaphor and parallelism.
>Hatred stirs up conflicts,
>but love covers over all offenses. (Proverbs 10:12 ULB)
Another example from Proverbs.
>Look at the ant, you lazy person, consider her ways, and be wise.
>It has no commander, officer, or ruler,
>yet it prepares its food in the summer,
>and during the harvest it stores up what it will eat. (Proverbs 6:6-8 ULB)
Each language has its own ways of saying proverbs. There are many proverbs in the Bible. They need to be translated in the way that people say proverbs in your language, so that people recognize them as proverbs and understand what they teach.
### Examples from the Bible
>A good name is to be chosen over great riches,
>and favor is better than silver and gold. (Proverbs 22:1 ULB)
This means that it is better to be a good person and to have a good reputation than it is to have a lot of money.
>Like vinegar on the teeth and smoke in the eyes,
>so is the sluggard to those who send him. (Proverbs 10:26 ULB)
This means that a lazy person is very annoying to those who send him to do something.
>The way of Yahweh protects those who have integrity,
>but it is destruction for the wicked. (Proverbs 10:29 ULB)
This means that Yahweh protects people who do what is right, but he destroys those who are wicked.
1. Find out how people say proverbs in your language, and use one of those ways.
1. If certain objects in the proverb are not known to many people in your language group, consider replacing them with objects that people know and that function in the same way in your language.
1. Substitute a proverb in your language that has the same teaching as the proverb in the Bible.
1. Give the same teaching but not in a form of a proverb.
2) If certain objects in the proverb are not known to many people in your language group, consider replacing them with objects that people know and that function in the same way in your language.
* **Like <u>snow in summer</u> or rain in harvest,**
* It is not natural for <u>a cold wind to blow in the hot season</u> or for it to rain in the harvest season; And it is not natural to honor a foolish person.