Phungdeikung 8
1 Apimaw a lungkaang e patetlah kaawm Apimaw deicainae ka panuek. Lungangnae ni minhmai a pan sak teh taranhawinae mei a kamnue sak.
Who is like the wise? and who knoweth [as well] the explanation of a thing? a man's wisdom enlighteneth his face, and the boldness of his face will be lessened.
2 Cathut hmalah lawk na kam e patetlah siangpahrang e lawk ngâi haw telah pouknae na poe.
I [counsel thee], Keep the king's command, and that which regardeth the oath [to him taken] by God.
3 Siangpahrang hmalah hoi karanglah tâcawt hanh. Kahawi hoeh e hno saknae koe lah kampang hanh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, a ngai e patetlah lawk a ceng.
Be not hasty to go out of his presence; engage not in an evil thing; for whatsoever pleaseth him, can he do;
4 Siangpahrang e kâlawk dawk bahu ao. Ahni koe apini maw, nang bangmaw na sak tie hah a pacei ngam han.
Because the word of a king is powerful; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?—
5 Ahnie kâ ka tarawi e teh runae dawk hoi a hlout han. Tami a lungkaang e a lungthin ni atueng hoi sak han kawi a panue.
Whoso keepeth the commandment will experience no evil thing: and a wise man's heart knoweth both time and the just consequence.
6 Tami ni a pouk e pueng hah atueng hoi saknae kâ ao. Hatei, tami teh runae puenghoi a khang.
Because for every pursuit there is a time and a just consequence; for the evil of man [resteth] heavily upon him.
7 Hmalah ka tho hane panuek hoeh. Bangtelamaw ao han tie apinihai dei thai hoeh.
For he knoweth not that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be?
8 Apihai muitha ka kuen thai e tami buet touh hai awm hoeh. A due hnin dawk apinihai kâ tawn hoeh. Hote kâtuknae dawk hoi apihai hlout thai hoeh. Yonnae a sak ei nakunghai, yonnae ni hot dawk hoi hlout sak thai hoeh.
No man hath control over the spirit to detain the spirit; and there is no control over the day of death; and there is no representation in that war; and wickedness will not deliver those that practise it.
9 Hetnaw pueng heh ka hmu toe. Kanî rahim vah sakyoe e pueng heh ka pouk toe. Amahoima runae kâhmo hanelah ayâ alouknaw uknae tueng hai ao.
All this have I seen, and directed my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when one man ruleth over another to his own injury.
10 Hothloilah, thoungnae hmuen koe ka cet e tami kahawihoehnaw pakawp lah ao awh e hai thoseh, hawihoehnae a saknae kho dawk apinihai ahni hah a pouk awh hoeh e hai thoseh, ka hmu toe. Hathai ahrawnghrang doeh.
Then also did I see the wicked buried, who had gone to their rest; but those who had acted correctly had to go away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city. Also this is vanity.
11 Kahawi hoeh ka sak naw hah karanglah lawkceng teh dan ouk a poe hoeh dawkvah, taminaw ni kahawihoehe hno sak hanelah a lungtang awh.
Because the punishment against evil deeds is not executed speedily, therefore is the heart of the sons of men filled up in them to do evil.
12 Tami kahawihoeh ni avai cum touh hawihoehnae a sak nahlangva a hring a saw eiteh, Cathut kataketnaw ni a hmalah a taki awh dawkvah, hawinae a coe awh han tie kamcengcalah ka hmu.
But let a sinner do evil a hundred times, and [God] withhold long his punishment from him; still do I truly know for certain that it will be well with those that fear God, because they are afraid of him;
13 Tami kahawihoehe niteh, Cathut a taki hoeh dawkvah hawinae coe mahoeh. Tâhlip hoi kâvan e a hringnae hai aduem han.
And that it will not be well with the wicked, and that he will not endure many days, like the shadow; because he is not afraid of God.
14 Talai van kaawm e ahrawnghrang hno buet touh teh, tami kahawihoehnaw ni a pang awh hane kathout hno hah tami kalannaw ni a pang awh teh, tami kalannaw ni a pang awh hane kahawi hno hah tami kahawihoehnaw ni letlang a pang awh. Hathai ahrawnghrang doeh telah ka pouk.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men, unto whom it happeneth in accordance with the deeds of the wicked; again, there are wicked men, to whom it happeneth in accordance with the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
15 Hatnavah nawmnae hah ka oup. Bangkongtetpawiteh, kanî rahim vah caneinae, nawmnae hlakvah kahawi e hno awm hoeh. Kanî rahim vah Cathut ni na hring sak nathung vah, panki laihoi hmu e hno thung dawkvah, hot doeh pou coe awh.
Therefore do I praise joyfulness, that there is nothing better for man under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful; for this will adhere to him in his toil, during the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.—
16 Lungangnae panue hane hoi talai van thaw tawk e pueng hmu hanelah karum khodai ip laipalah ka lungthin ka hroecoe navah,
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the employment that is done upon the earth, how even neither by day nor by night sleep is seen in the eyes of some men:
17 Cathut ni kanî rahim a sak e hno pueng tami ni panuek thai hoeh tie ka hmu. Hothloilah banghloi e a lungkaang ni koung ka panue han ka tet nakunghai coung thai hoeh.
Then did I see [in] the whole work of God, that a man is not able to find out the work that is done under the sun; inasmuch as though a man were to toil to seek for it, he would yet not find it; and even if the wise were to think to know it, he would yet not be able to find it.
