Ecclesiastes 5
1 Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
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.
2 Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
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.
3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
Tawksaknae apap e lahoi mang ouk mang e patetlah lawk papnae lahoi pathunae lawk thai lah o.
4 When you vow a vow to God, do not defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
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.
5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
Lawkkam tarawi hoeh e hlak teh khoeroe kam laipalah awm pawiteh bet ahawihnawn.
6 Do not allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Do not protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
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.
7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
Mang apapnae dawk thoseh, lawk apapnae dawk hai thoseh, kacungkeihoehe hno doeh. Nang teh Cathut hah taket haw.
8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, do not marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
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.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
Talai dawk e tawnta e naw hateh a cawngca hanelah doeh. Siangpahrang nakunghai laikawk hoi kâkawk e doeh.
10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
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.
11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Hnopai hoe apap navah ka catnet e hai hoe a pap. Hno katawnkung ni a mit hoi a khet e doeh yawhawinae lah kaawm.
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
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.
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
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.
14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Hote hnopai teh kahawihoehe hno ni a kamko sak. Hnopai katawnkung a capa haiyah kuthrawng lah doeh ao.
15 As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
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.
16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
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.
17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
Ahnie hnin a tha teh kahmawt thung doeh a loum sak. Tarawknae, Lungmathoe, lungkhueknae doeh a pang awh.
18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
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.
19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
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.
20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life, because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
Kaloum tangcoung e ahninnaw hah ngailawi pouk hanh. Lungthin nawmnae teh Cathut ni doeh na poe awh.
