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Proverbs: collection 28 -- a composite transliteration
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1 - tukul mu-ni nu-pàd-da su-ni ì-pàd-da
2 - iri(ki) mu hu-mu-kúr-kúr mu-ju10 hu-mu-gen6-na
3 - (d)nin-kilim dijir-ra nu-zu
4 - jic-cub ús-sa ama-zu húl-la
5 - kac4 tuku-ma dijir-zu húl-la
6 - te8(mušen) ka lú-kam ba-an-kur9
7 - nim kur9-ra-àm ka-zu ba-nim-àm
8 - jidru gud ha-pa-gaz á-si udu ha-pa-cúm
9 - ki saj-ki nu-jál-ta nu-díb e-ne sukkal-a
10 - cag4 jidru-kam ì hé-en-dé
11 - dijir-ra-a-ni nu-mu-un-kal-kal lú-bi ki nu-tùm
12 - ibila-a-ni a nu-dé AN saj X X-ke4
13 - ha-ma-da-gub-bé X X X
14 - ér gémé-kam U8
15 - dumu gémé-kam dam
16 - ambar-a-ni
17 - ambar-a-ni
18 - X X BU IGI X
19 - X X X X
20 - X cec cec
21 - dam nu-jar-ra tu-ku-a-ju10-ne
22 - tur5-ra cag4-ga
23 - u4-ma é nu-tuku é dé-a X X
24 - útúl tu-KA cu bar jál sahar nu-ci-X níj-gig (d)utu-kam
25 - nitah du-du níj pàd-da
26 - munus du-du níj
27 - huj ce sa-ra ha-bí-ib-gi4
28 - saj i-bí dug4-ga
29 - é-gal tir-ra-àm
30 - lugal ur-mah-e (d)nun-gal sa-uc-gal juruc-e gam-gam
31 - é-ta è sila-ta kur9-ra gémé nin-a-ni-ta jicbun-ni bí-in-jar
32 - ce nu-jál cu iri(ki)-kam
33 - gi nu-jál nam-ùkùr nam-úkúr3úrùkùrùr2 dirig-ga
34 - hu-su ga-me-en acgab-e-ne
35 - zi (d)en-ki-a ú zà-le ázlág-e-ne
36 - ku6 al-cej6-já ha-ra-ab-sed6-sed6-dè
37 - jìrì-pax(PAD)-rá de5-de5-ga
38 - X X nam-ba-DU jé6-e X X-húl-le-e
1 - The battle-club does not find out his name, it just finds his flesh.
2 - The city may change its name, but let my name stand!
3 - The mongoose does not know fear of god.
4-5 - Accept your lot and make your mother happy! Run fast and make your god happy!
6 - An eagle (?) enters a man's mouth.
7 - When a fly enters, your mouth will buzz .
8-9 - Let the ox be struck with a stick and let the sheep be given the whip. Where there is no toughness, no one can go about their business, not even a plenipotentiary.
10 - If oil is poured into the inside of a sceptre .
11-13 - If a man does not treasure his god, that man will not be buried. His heir will not provide him with water libations . ...
14-19 - a slave girl's tears spouse is a slave girl's child. boat his marsh his marsh ... ...
20 - ...
21 - In marrying (?) a malicious husband .
22 - Disease that afflicts the heart a man.
23 - The wild beasts (?) have no houses; .
24 - A tureen released (?) not dust : it is an abomination to Utu.
25-26 - When a man walks about, he finds something. When a woman walks about, she loses something.
27 - You really to the hireling selling roasted grain.
28 - A slave wafting smoke.
29-30 - The palace is a forest. The king, the lion, subdues men with a huge net like Nungal.
31 - When the mistress left the house and the slave girl came in from the street, away from her mistress the slave girl set up her own banquet.
32-33 - Where there is no grain, this is a sign of vengeance turned toward a city. Where there are no reeds, it is the worst of all poverty.
34-35 - 'I bow over your thighs' is what the leather-workers say. 'I swear by Enki that it will take no time at all' is what the fullers say.
36-38 - When the fish is too hot, let him cool it down for you and pick out the bones for you. go , I happy .