Phungdeikung 5
1 Cathut e im koe na cei navah na khok kâhruetcuet. Tami pathu ni a sak e thuengnae a sak e hlak teh, lawk thai hanelah hoe kâyawm. Tamipathunaw teh mae yonnae naw pouk awh hoeh.
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
2 Na pahni hah kâhruetcuet. Cathut hmalah lawk na dei han navah na lungthin rang sak hanh. Cathut teh kalvan vah ao. Nang teh talai dawk na o. Hatdawkvah lawk moikapap dei hanh.
Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
3 Tawksaknae apap e lahoi mang ouk mang e patetlah lawk papnae lahoi pathunae lawk thai lah o.
For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
4 Cathut koe lawkkamnae na sak pawiteh lawkkam sak laipalah awm hanh. Cathut ni tamipathunaw koe lungkuep hoeh. Lawk na kam e patetlah sak. Lawk na kam e patetlah sak loe.
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
5 Lawkkam tarawi hoeh e hlak teh khoeroe kam laipalah awm pawiteh bet ahawihnawn.
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
6 Na pahni ni na tak dawk yon phat sak hanh naseh. Ka payon toe telah a laiceinaw e hmalah dei hanelah awm sak hanh. Bangkongmaw na lawkdei e dawk Cathut a lungphuen vaiteh na sakyoe e a raphoe han vaw.
Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
7 Mang apapnae dawk thoseh, lawk apapnae dawk hai thoseh, kacungkeihoehe hno doeh. Nang teh Cathut hah taket haw.
For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.
8 Kho dawkvah ka roedeng naw ka pacekpahlek e, lam ka phen sak e, kamsoumhoehe laidei ka tâtueng naw na hmu navah, ahnimouh kecu dawk na kângairu sak hanh. Bawi buet touh ni buet touh a panue e patetlah kacuehloe e bawi ni patuen a panue doeh.
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.
9 Talai dawk e tawnta e naw hateh a cawngca hanelah doeh. Siangpahrang nakunghai laikawk hoi kâkawk e doeh.
Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.
10 Tangka ka raduek e teh tangka ni a ngainae kuep sak mahoeh. Hnopai ka tawn poung e hai hoehoe a tawn ei, a lungkuep thai hoeh. Hot naw pueng teh ahrawnghrang doeh.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
11 Hnopai hoe apap navah ka catnet e hai hoe a pap. Hno katawnkung ni a mit hoi a khet e doeh yawhawinae lah kaawm.
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
12 Thaw ka tawk e tami teh moi a ca nakunghai thoseh, yitca a ca nakunghai thoseh a ihmu atui. Ka tawnta e tami teh a tawn e hno ni ip sak thai hoeh.
The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.
13 Ka tawnta kung teh a tawn e a hnopai ni runae a poe. Hote hno teh kanî rahim vah kathout poung e hno lah ao.
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
14 Hote hnopai teh kahawihoehe hno ni a kamko sak. Hnopai katawnkung a capa haiyah kuthrawng lah doeh ao.
or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15 Hoehpawiteh, hno katawnkung teh a manu von thung hoi caici lah a khe e patetlah bout a ban han. Kâyawm laihoi a hmu e hnopai buet touh boehai bout sin thai mahoeh.
As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
16 Ahni teh a tâco e patetlah banghai lanae awm laipalah bout ban e hateh, hno kathout doeh. Kahlî man hanelah kâyawm e tami teh bangmaw hawinae kaawm.
And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?
17 Ahnie hnin a tha teh kahmawt thung doeh a loum sak. Tarawknae, Lungmathoe, lungkhueknae doeh a pang awh.
All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
18 Kai ni ka hmu e naw hateh, canei e, kanî rahim vah Cathut ni na poe e hringnae hoi hring yunglam kâyawm teh hawinae coe dawkvah lunghawikhai hanelah ao. Ahawi ngounh. Hot hateh tami hane doeh.
Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
19 Cathut ni na poe e hno ka tawnta pueng, ma hanelah coe teh pang hanelah thoseh, kâyawmnae dawk nawmnae thoseh, Cathut pahrennae dawk hoi doeh coe awh.
Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.
20 Kaloum tangcoung e ahninnaw hah ngailawi pouk hanh. Lungthin nawmnae teh Cathut ni doeh na poe awh.
For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.
