Eklesiastes 6

1 Aseneno richo machielo e piny, kendo obedo sandruok ahinya ni dhano:

There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:

2 Nyasaye miyo dhano mwandu, ngima maber kod luor makende, mondo kik obed maonge gimoro amora ma chunye dwaro, makmana Nyasaye ok miye thuolo mar bedo gi mor kuomgi, kendo ngʼato nono ema bedo mamor kodgi. Maonge tiende, kendo en richo marach moloyo.

A man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures and honour, and he wanteth nothing for his soule of all that it desireth: but God giueth him not power to eate thereof, but a strange man shall eate it vp: this is vanitie, and this is an euill sicknesse.

3 Ngʼato nyalo bedo kod nyithindo mia achiel kendo odak higni mangʼeny; to kata bed ni odak mangʼeny maromo nade, ka ok onyal yudo mor kuom mwandune kendo ok oike maber ka otho, to awacho ni nyathi monywol kosetho ber moloye.

If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, and his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he.

4 Nywol mar nyathi ma kamano en kayiem nono, olal e mudho kendo kata nying ok chake.

For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.

5 Kata obedo ni ne ok oneno wangʼ chiengʼ kamano, kata ngʼeyo gimoro amora, to en gi kwe moloyo ngʼat

Also he hath not seene ye sunne, nor knowen it: therefore this hath more rest then the other.

6 modak higni gana gi gana to onge gi mor. Donge giduto gidhi mana kamoro achiel?

And if he had liued a thousand yeeres twise tolde, and had seene no good, shall not all goe to one place?

7 Dhano tiyo matek mondo oyud gima ochamo, to kata kamano gik moyudo ok rome.

All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.

8 En angʼo ma ngʼama riek nigo moloyo ngʼama ofuwo? En ohala mane ma ngʼama ofuwo yudo kuom ngʼeyo kaka dodimbre e nyim joma moko?

For what hath the wise man more then the foole? what hath the poore that knoweth how to walke before the liuing?

9 Ber bedo mamor gi gik ma in-go moloyo bedo gi gombo kuom gima iongego. Ma bende en gima onge tiende kendo ochalo mana kalawo bangʼ yamo.

The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, and vexation of spirit.

10 Gimoro amora mantiere nosemi nyinge chon, kendo gima dhano en bende nosengʼe; onge ngʼama nyalo piem gi ngʼama oloye gi teko.

What is that that hath bene? the name thereof is nowe named: and it is knowen that it is man: and he cannot striue with him that is stronger then he.

11 Kaka weche bedo mathoth, e kaka gibedo maonge tiendgi. To ere kaka mano miyo ngʼato ohala?

Surely there be many things that increase vanitie: and what auaileth it man?

12 Ere ngʼama nyalo ngʼeyo gima ber ma dhano onego tim e ngima machiekni kendo manono makadho mana ka tipo? Koso ere ngʼama nyalo nyise gima biro timorene e piny bangʼ thone?

For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?