Nigerian Pidgin Bible
Proverbs 23
1 When you siddon to chop with important person, make you get who he be for mind.
2 Even if hunger dey wire you, control yourself and no eat too much.
3 No dey greedy for the fine food wey he serve you; he fit dey try trick you.
4 Make you dey wise enough make you no destroy yourself as you dey try get rich.
5 Your money fit go in a flash, like say e don grow wing and fly commot like eagle.
6 No chop with selfish people. Control your hunger for the fine food wey he serve.
7 Dem fit tell you make you eat and drink all you want, but dem no mean am. Dem be the kind people wey dey only think about the cost.
8 You go vomit everything wey you don chop, and shame go catch you.
9 No try teach a fool; he go make fun of your wise words.
10 No move the mark of the old boundary or take the land wey belong to orphans.
11 Na God be their powerful defender, and he go protect them against you.
12 Pay attention to your teachers and learn everything wey you fit learn.
13 Always correct children when dem need am. If you slap them, e no go kill them.
14 As a matter of fact, you fit save their lives.
15 My pikin, when you make wise decision, I dey happy with you.
16 I go dey proud when I hear you dey talk words of wisdom.
17 No dey jealous people wey dey sin; make the fear of God be concern for your life.
18 If e be, you get bright future.
19 Hear me, my pikin, be wise and give serious thinking about the way you dey live.
20 No make friends with people wey dey drink too much or fill themselves with food.
21 Those wey drink and chop too much go become poor. If all wetin you dey do na to chop and sleep, you go soon dey wear rags.
22 Listen to your papa; you no fit exist without him. When your mama don old, make you show her appreciation.
23 Truth, wisdom, learning, and good sense dem be wetin you fit pay for, but dem get value pass wetin you fit sell.
24 Righteous man papa get good reason to dey happy. You fit dey proud of a wise son.
25 Make your papa and mama dey proud of you; give your mama that happiness.
26 Pay close attention, son, and make my life be your example.
27 Prostitute and bad women na deadly trap.
28 Dem dey wait for you like robbers and dem dey make plenty men no dey faithful.
29 Show me someone wey dey drink too much, wey dey try some new wine, and I go show you someone wey dey sad and sorry for himself, wey dey always cause trouble and dey always complain.
30 Him eyes na bloodshot, and he get wounds wey he fit don avoid.
31 No allow wine tempt you, even though na rich red, though he dey sparkle for cup, and e dey go down smoothly.
32 The next morning you go feel as if say snake wey get poison don bite you.
33 Strange things go begin dey appear for your eyes, and you no go fit think or talk clearly.
34 When you lie down, you go think say you dey on top sea and like say you dey on top mast.
35 You go talk say; Dem hit me, but I no feel am. Dem beat me, but I no remember am. Now I no fit wake up! I wan take another drink.