Thuituen 5
1 Pathen im la na caeh vaengkah bangla na kho neh na khokan te ngaithuen. Te dongah hnatun hamla n'tawn uh he aka ang kah hmueih nawn lakah then. Amih loh boethae a saii te khaw ming uh pawh.
Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
2 Pathen mikhmuh ah ol aka thak la na ka te let sak boel lamtah na lungbuei loe boel saeh. Pathen tah vaan ah om tih nang tah diklai ah ni na om. Te dongah na ol yol saeh.
Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth — so let not the number of your words be great.
3 Bibi a cungkuem vaengah mueimang khaw om tih olka a cungkuem vaengah hlang ang ol la poeh.
As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
4 Pathen taengah olcaeng na caeng vaengah na thuung ham uelh boeh. Na caeng bangla a thuung te aka ang kah kongaih moenih.
When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
5 Na caeng tih na thuung pawt lakah na caeng pawt te then.
It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
6 Na pumsa te tholh sak hamla na ka te khueh boeh. Tohtamaeh kah te puencawn mikhmuh ah thui boeh. Na ol dongah balae tih Pathen thin a toek? Te dongah na kut dongkah bibi te a phae.
Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
7 Mueimang a yet vaengah a honghi neh ol khaw yet. Te dongah Pathen te rhih laeh.
Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
8 Paeng ah khodaeng hnaemtaeknah khaw, tiktamnah neh duengnah lamloh pitnah na hmuh. Te te ngaihnah dongah khaw na ngaihmang sak boeh. A sang soah a sang la a dawn tih amih lakah sang lah ko.
If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
9 Amah khohmuen aka tawn manghai loh a cungkuem dongah khohmuen kah rhoeikhangnah te amah la a dang.
It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
10 Tangka aka lungnah khaw tangka hah pawt tih boeinah aka lungnah te khaw a vueithaih a dang moenih. He khaw a honghi mai ni.
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
11 Hnothen a ping ham vaengah te te aka ca rhoek khaw pungtai uh. Te dongah a kungmah te tah a mik loh danyoe sawthong phoeiah tah balae a thoemthainah voel.
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
12 Aka thotat tah a yol akhaw, a yet a caak akhaw a ih tui. Tedae hlanglen kah khobuh long tah amah te ih sak ham pataeng duem sak pawh.
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
13 Boethae a om he khomik hmuiah a tloh la ka hmuh. Khuehtawn he a kungmah loh a ngaithuen akhaw amah yoethaenah ham ni.
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun — wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
14 Khuehtawn he bibi thae ah a paltham mai. Te dongah capa a sak akhaw a kut dongah pakhat pataeng a om moenih.
And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
15 A manu bung lamloh pumtling ha thoeng tih a caeh vaengah khaw a thoeng vaengkah banglam ni a. mael. A thakthaenah lamkah te pakhat pataeng a kut dongah a khuen hamla a phueih moenih.
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
16 Ha thoeng vaengkah bangla voeivang a caeh he khaw boeih thae tih tlo bal. Te dongah khohli hamla a thakthae he anih ham balae a rhoeikhangnah.
And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
17 Amah tue khuiah khaw hmaisuep ah a caak tih a tlohtat neh a thinhul ah muep hue a sak.
All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
18 Sakthen la caak ham neh ok ham khaw, hnothen a hmuh ham khaw a then la ka hmuh coeng ne. Khomik hmui kah a hingnah khohnin tarhing la a thakthaenah cungkuem neh thakthae. A hingnah te Pathen loh anih taengah amah kah hamsum la a paek.
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
19 Pathen loh hlang boeih te a taengkah khuehtawn neh koeva a paek pai. Te dongah te lamloh a caak ham neh a hamsum a duen ham khaw, a thakthaenah khui lamloh kohoe sak ham khaw a taemrhai. He tah Pathen kah kutdoe rhoe ni.
Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
20 Pathen loh kohoenah neh a lungbuei a phaep pah dongah a hingnah khohnin te puet poek pawh.
He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
