Eklesiastes 5
1 Ritri ka idhi e od Nyasaye. Dhi machiegni mondo ichik iti moloyo chiwo misengini ma joma ofuwo chiwo, jogo ma ok ongʼeyo ni gitimo marach.
Take heede to thy foote when thou entrest into the House of God, and be more neere to heare then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they knowe not that they doe euil.
2 Kik dhogi bed mayot kata kik irikni e chunyi kiwacho, wach moro amora e nyim Nyasaye. Nyasaye ni e polo to in to in e piny, omiyo wechegi onego bed manok.
Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.
3 Kaka lek biro ka nitie paro mathoth, e kaka weche mar ngʼama ofuwo bedo nikech weche mangʼeny.
For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
4 Ka isingori e nyim Nyasaye, to kik ideki mar timo kamano. Ok omor gi joma ofuwo; omiyo chop singruokni.
When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed.
5 Ber mondo kik isingri, moloyo singori, bangʼe ok ichopo singoni.
It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.
6 Kik iwe wecheni iwuon teri e richo, nono to ibiro ywagori e nyim jadolo mar hekalu niya, “Singruok mane atimo kakwongʼora ne ok en adier. Angʼo ma dimi Nyasaye bed kodi gi mirima kuom gik misewacho mi oketh tich lweti?
Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?
7 Lek mathoth kod weche mangʼeny duto onge tiendgi. Kuom mano chungʼ motegno kiluoro Nyasaye.”
For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.
8 Ka ineno ka joma odhier isando e gwengʼ moro, kata ok ngʼad buchgi gadiera kod ratiro, to kik gik ma kamago bwogi; nimar jatelo ka jatelo nigi ngʼama duongʼne kendo kargi ji ariyogi gin gi ngʼama otelonegi.
If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
9 Nyak mar piny itiyogo gi ji duto; ruoth bende yudo ohala e nyak mar puothego.
And the abundance of the earth is ouer all: the King also consisteth by the fielde that is tilled.
10 Ngʼat mohero pesa ok bed gi pesa morome; kendo ngʼat mohero mwandu, mwandu moyudo ok rome. Ma bende onge tiende.
He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.
11 Kaka mwanduni medore, e kaka joma tiyo kodgi medore. In to ohala miyudo en ngʼeyo mana ni in jamoko?
When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?
12 Jachan nindo mamuol, kata ka ochiemo matin kata ka ochiemo mathoth, to jo-mwandu parore ma ok nyal nindo.
The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.
13 Gima lit maseneno katimore e piny en ni mwandu mopandi inyo mana wuon,
There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.
14 kata mwandu molal nikech chandruok moro, maonge gima ginyalo weyo ni nyithindgi ndalo mabiro.
And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
15 Mana kaka dhano wuok ei min-gi ka en duk, e kaka obiro dok. Onge gino moago kuom tichne matek monyalo tingʼo e lwete.
As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shall beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.
16 Gima lit ahinya machielo en: Kaka dhano nobiro e pinyni, e kaka obiro wuok e pinyni, koro ere ohala moyudo, kuom tichne matek konyagore mana ne yamo?
And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
17 Ndalone duto ochiemo e mudho, ka en gi chandruok malich, rem kod mirima.
Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.
18 Eka ne afwenyo ni ber kendo longʼo mondo dhano ochiem kendo omethi, kendo mondo oyud mor e tichne matek motimo e bwo wangʼ chiengʼ e kinde matin mar ngimane ma Nyasaye osemiye, nimar mano e pokne kende.
Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.
19 Kata kamano, ka Nyasaye omiyo ngʼato mwandu gi ngima maber, kendo oyiene mondo ocham gigo to onego obed mamor kochamogi, nimar mano en mich ma Nyasaye ema chiwo.
Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.
20 Ok onyal bedo gi thuolo mar nono kit ngimane e ndalo mosekadho, nikech Nyasaye okete modich gi mor mathoth e chunye.
Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.
