proverbs

542. Weddi, boo gisee, gëm. (13,20)
Weddil, soo gisee gëmal. (4)
Deny if you like, but when you see, believe.
“Seeing is believing.”
Prostitutes
543. Caga, benn yoon la ñu koy nax. (2)
Caga, kenn du ka nax ñaari yoon. (14)
No one deceives a prostitute twice.
“Once bitten, twice shy.”
“Experience is the best teacher.”
In your relations with people if you deceive them once you will find them closed to you in
the future.
Protection
544. Ku làqu ci ku ñu rus dinga raw. (18)
545. Sindax, ndaa lañu koy ruse. (18)
544. He who hides behind someone whom people are ashamed to attack will
escape.
545. If the lizard is safe from attack it is because of the water pot he is sitting on.
To attack a lizard on a water pot risks either breaking the pot or contaminating the water. It
is at times strategic to count on protectors when in difficult situations. The cover of a
person of influence or respect can sometimes be beneficial.
Provision
546. Soo bëgg loo lekk nawet na nga di sakkantal ci noor. (13)
If want to have something to eat during the wet season, then you need to be frugal
during the dry season.
“Waste not, want not.”
Ants are creatures of little strength, yet they store up their food in the summer.
(Proverbs 30:25 NIV)
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander,
no overseer or ruler, yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food
at harvest. (Proverbs 6:6-8 NIV)
547. Li béy doon dunde ba sax sikkim mën ca wéy ba dee. (20)
Lu bëy daan dunde ba sax sikkim, man na kaa dunde ba, xëy dee. (9)
The food which has sustained the billy goat to the point where it sprouts its beard
is sufficient to continue to sustain it until death.
One should be careful about despising the work that has sustained one until now by
entering into something else which might be worse.
548. Tooñ du gàllaaj. (6)
Provocation is not a protection.
Provocation
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