Thuituen 6
1 Khomik hmuiah ka hmuh he boethae la om tih te te hlang soah yet coeng.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
2 Pathen loh hlang te a taengah khuehtawn, koeva, neh thangpomnah a paek. Te dongah a ngaidam boeih khui lamloh a hinglu te talh pawh. Tedae te te a caak hamla Pathen loh anih a taemrhai sak moenih. Te te kholong hlang a cah he a honghi neh tloh thae ni.
A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3 Hlang long he yakhat a sak tih kum a yet a hing mai khaming, a kum khohnin khaw muep lo mai khaming. Tedae a hinglu loh hnothen te cung pawt tih phuel ah khaw amah taengah a om pah moenih. Anih lakah aka rhumpu te then lah ka ti.
If a man brought forth an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
4 Anih te a honghi la ha thoeng tih a hmuep ah a caeh dongah a ming khaw a hmuep ah a vuei pah.
For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5 Khomik hmu pawt mai cakhaw mongnah he tah a tloe loh anih lakah a ming moenih.
Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this has more rest than the other.
6 Kum thawngkhat a rhaep la hing sitoe cakhaw hnothen a hmuh hae moenih. Hmuen pakhat la boeih a caeh moenih a?
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7 Hlang kah thakthaenah boeih he a ka ham ni. Tedae a hinglu khaw a cung tlaih moenih.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8 Aka ang lakah aka cueih taengah balae a hoeikhang? Mulhing taengah aka pongpa mangdaeng te balae a ming?
For what has the wise more than the fool? what has the poor, that knows to walk before the living?
9 Hinglu a van lakah tah mik kah a hmuethma he then. He khaw a honghi neh khohli doinah mai ni.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10 Mebang khaw aka om coeng te tah a ming oepsoeh la a sui dongah hlang he amah ah ming uh coeng. Tedae amah lakah thaom neh aka khulae taengah tah laitloek ham a noeng moenih.
That which has been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11 Ol muep a lo vaengah a honghi khaw ping tih hlang hamla balae a hoeikhang?
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
12 Hingnah khohnin tarhing kah hingnah dongah a honghi neh khokhawn bangla a khum te hlang hamla metla a then khaw unim aka ming? Khomik hmuiah anih hnukla aka om te hlang taengah ulong a thui thai?
For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
