Mlaliki 6
1 Ine ndinaona choyipa china pansi pano, ndipo chimasautsa anthu kwambiri:
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:
2 Mulungu amapereka chuma, zinthu ndi ulemu kwa munthu, kotero kuti munthuyo sasowa kanthu kalikonse kamene akukalakalaka, koma Mulungu samulola kuti adyerere zinthuzo, ndipo mʼmalo mwake amadyerera ndi mlendo. Izi ndi zopandapake, ndi zoyipa kwambiri.
one to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and a sore evil.
3 Ngakhale munthu atabereka ana 100 ndi kukhala ndi moyo zaka zambiri; komatu ngakhale atakhala zaka zambiri chotani, ngati iye sangadyerere chuma chake ndi kuyikidwa mʼmanda mwaulemu, ine ndikuti mtayo umamuposa iyeyo.
If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.
4 Mtayo umangopita pachabe ndipo umapita mu mdima, ndipo mu mdimamo dzina lake limayiwalika.
For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
5 Ngakhale kuti mtayowo sunaone dzuwa kapena kudziwa kanthu kalikonse, koma umapumula kuposa munthu uja,
moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.
6 ngakhale munthuyo atakhala ndi moyo zaka 2,000, koma ndi kulephera kudyerera chuma chake. Kodi onsewa sapita malo amodzi?
Yea, though he live twice a thousand years, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7 Ntchito yonse ya munthu imathera pakamwa pake, komatu iye sakhutitsidwa ndi pangʼono pomwe.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8 Kodi munthu wanzeru amaposa motani chitsiru? Kodi munthu wosauka amapindula chiyani podziwa kukhala bwino pamaso pa anthu ena?
For what advantage hath the wise above the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9 Kuli bwino kumangoona zinthu ndi maso kusiyana ndi kumangozilakalaka mu mtima. Izinso ndi zopandapake, nʼkungodzivuta chabe.
Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
10 Chilichonse chimene chilipo anachitchula kale dzina, za mmene munthu alili nʼzodziwika; sangathe kutsutsana ndi munthu amene ali wamphamvu kupambana iyeyo.
That which is hath already been named; and what man is, is known, and that he cannot contend with him that is mightier than he.
11 Mawu akachuluka zopandapake zimachulukanso, nanga munthu zimamupindulira chiyani?
For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?
12 Pakuti ndani amene amadziwa chomwe ndi chabwino pa moyo wa munthu, pakuti moyo wake ndi wa masiku ochepa ndi opandapake, umangopitira ngati mthunzi. Ndani amene angamufotokozere zimene zidzachitika pansi pano iye atapita?
For who knoweth what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell man what shall be after him under the sun?
