Ecclesiastes 9
1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.
A lathueng lah dei tangcoung e naw hah kai ni ka pouk navah, tamikalan hoi tami lungkaangnaw teh, a tawksak e hno khuehoi Cathut kut dawk ao. Tami pueng ni amamae hmalah lengkaleng kaawm e lungpatawnae hoi hmuhmanae hah panuek awh hoeh.
2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous man and to the wicked man, to the good man, and to the clean man, and to the unclean man, to him who sacrifices and to him who does not sacrifice, as is the good man, so is the sinner, and he who swears, as he who fears an oath.
Tami pueng e lathueng vah reikâvan e hno a tâco. Tami kalan hoi kalan hoeh e, tami kahawi hoi kahawihoeh e, tami kathoung hoi kathounghoehe, thuengnae ka sak hoi ka sak hoeh e, yonnae ka tawn hoeh e hoi ka tawn e, thoekâbo e tami hoi kâbo hoeh e taminaw lathueng hai reikâvan e hno a tâco.
3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea also, the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
Hethateh, kanî rahim vah sak e reikâvan e hawihoehnae tami pueng ni a kâhmo e hno doeh. Atang katang lah taminaw e lungthin teh yonnae hoi akawi. A hring awh nathung vah, pathunae lung a tawn awh teh bout a due awh.
4 Because to him who is joined with all the living there is hope, for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Ka hring e taminaw hoi kâkuennaw teh ngaihawinae ao. Kahring e ui teh kadout e sendek hlak bet ahawi.
5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know not anything, nor have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
Kahring e tami ni a due hane a panue. Ka dout e ni teh banghai panuek hoeh. Tawkphu awm hoeh toe. Ama hai pahnim awh toe.
6 As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, has perished long ago, nor have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
Ahnie lungpatawnae, maithoenae, utnae hai a kahma toe. Kanî rahim vah sak e hno dawk ayânaw hoi rei coe mahoeh toe.
7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart, for God has already accepted thy works.
Cet nateh lunghawi lahoi rawca cat leih. Lunghawi lahoi misurtui net leih. Nang ni na sak e naw pueng Cathut ni lung na kuepkhai.
8 Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.
Na khohna hai pou pangaw naseh. Na lû dawk e satui hai phui sak hanh.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.
Kanî rahim na poe e ahrawnghrang hring nathung, na lungpataw e yu hoi kanawmcalah hringnae atueng loum sak haw. Hetteh, hring na thung kanî rahim vah panki thapatho e dawk coe e doeh.
10 Whatever thy hand finds to do, do with thy might, for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where thou go. (Sheol h7585)
Tawk hane kaawm e pueng hah thahmei laihoi tawk awh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, atu na cei teh na pha hane hmu e, tami kadout kho teh thaw tawknae, kho pouknae, thoumthainae, lungangnae hai awm mahoeh toe. (Sheol h7585)
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of skill, but time and chance happens to them all.
Kanî rahim kaawm e naw pueng bout ka khet navah, a hue karang poung e tami hai ouk tâ hoeh. Atha kaawm poung ni taran a tuk ei, ouk tâ hoeh. A lungkaang ni ka boum lah ouk cat hoeh. A ratho kahawi ni hnopai ouk hmawt hoeh. Lawk ka ngai e teh tami hmalah minhmai kahawi ouk hmawt hoeh. Tami pueng koe atueng akuepnae, coungkacoenae patetlah doeh ouk ao tie hah ka hmu.
12 For man also does not know his time. As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time when it falls suddenly upon them.
Tami ni amae atueng hah ouk panuek hoeh. Tamlawk dawk kâman e tanga patetlah tangkam dawk kâman e tava patetlah taminaw ni runae thungvah pouk laipalah a kâman awh toe.
13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun this way, and it seemed great to me:
Kanî rahim oup han kawi lah ka hmu e lungangnae teh,
14 There was a little city, and few men within it. And there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
khoca kayoun e kho buet touh ao. Siangpahrang kalen e a tho teh, hote kho lawilah ao awh teh, ransanaw moikapap hoi a kalup awh.
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man. And he by his wisdom delivered the city, yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Hote kho dawk kaawm e mathoe ca a lungkaang e buet touh ni, amae lungangnae lahoi hote kho teh a hlout sak. Hatei, hote mathoe ca hah apinihai noutna awh hoeh.
16 Then I said, Wisdom is better than strength. Nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
Hatnavah, ka dei ngai e teh, lungangnae teh thasainae hlak ahawi. Hatei, mathoe ca e lungangnae teh banglahai ouk noutna awh hoeh. A lawk hai ngai a pouh hoeh.
17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
Ka ukkung ni kapathunaw e hramkikhai e lawk ngâi e hlakvah, soumtinae koe tami lungkaang ni dei e lawk doeh a ngâi pouh.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Lungangnae teh senehmaica hlak bet ahawi. Yonnae ka sak e haiyah hno kahawinaw hah ouk a raphoe.
