Ecclesiastes 6
1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;
Ine ndinaona choyipa china pansi pano, ndipo chimasautsa anthu kwambiri:
2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.
Mulungu amapereka chuma, zinthu ndi ulemu kwa munthu, kotero kuti munthuyo sasowa kanthu kalikonse kamene akukalakalaka, koma Mulungu samulola kuti adyerere zinthuzo, ndipo mʼmalo mwake amadyerera ndi mlendo. Izi ndi zopandapake, ndi zoyipa kwambiri.
3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
Ngakhale munthu atabereka ana 100 ndi kukhala ndi moyo zaka zambiri; komatu ngakhale atakhala zaka zambiri chotani, ngati iye sangadyerere chuma chake ndi kuyikidwa mʼmanda mwaulemu, ine ndikuti mtayo umamuposa iyeyo.
4 In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
Mtayo umangopita pachabe ndipo umapita mu mdima, ndipo mu mdimamo dzina lake limayiwalika.
5 Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
Ngakhale kuti mtayowo sunaone dzuwa kapena kudziwa kanthu kalikonse, koma umapumula kuposa munthu uja,
6 And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
ngakhale munthuyo atakhala ndi moyo zaka 2,000, koma ndi kulephera kudyerera chuma chake. Kodi onsewa sapita malo amodzi?
7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
Ntchito yonse ya munthu imathera pakamwa pake, komatu iye sakhutitsidwa ndi pangʼono pomwe.
8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?
Kodi munthu wanzeru amaposa motani chitsiru? Kodi munthu wosauka amapindula chiyani podziwa kukhala bwino pamaso pa anthu ena?
9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Kuli bwino kumangoona zinthu ndi maso kusiyana ndi kumangozilakalaka mu mtima. Izinso ndi zopandapake, nʼkungodzivuta chabe.
10 That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.
Chilichonse chimene chilipo anachitchula kale dzina, za mmene munthu alili nʼzodziwika; sangathe kutsutsana ndi munthu amene ali wamphamvu kupambana iyeyo.
11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?
Mawu akachuluka zopandapake zimachulukanso, nanga munthu zimamupindulira chiyani?
12 Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?
Pakuti ndani amene amadziwa chomwe ndi chabwino pa moyo wa munthu, pakuti moyo wake ndi wa masiku ochepa ndi opandapake, umangopitira ngati mthunzi. Ndani amene angamufotokozere zimene zidzachitika pansi pano iye atapita?
