Ecclesiastes 5
1 Keep thy foot, whensoever thou goest to the house of God; and [when thou art] near to hear, let thy sacrifice [be] better than the gift of fools: for they know not that they are doing 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 Be not hasty with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be swift to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven above, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy 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 through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of words.
Tawksaknae apap e lahoi mang ouk mang e patetlah lawk papnae lahoi pathunae lawk thai lah o.
4 Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he has] no pleasure in fools: pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed.
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 thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Lawkkam tarawi hoeh e hlak teh khoeroe kam laipalah awm pawiteh bet ahawihnawn.
6 Suffer not thy mouth to lead thy flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the works of thy 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 [there is evil] in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou God.
Mang apapnae dawk thoseh, lawk apapnae dawk hai thoseh, kacungkeihoehe hno doeh. Nang teh Cathut hah taket haw.
8 If thou shouldest see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for [there is] a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones 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 Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.
Talai dawk e tawnta e naw hateh a cawngca hanelah doeh. Siangpahrang nakunghai laikawk hoi kâkawk e doeh.
10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also 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 In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the right of beholding [it] 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 servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers 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 an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, [namely], wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.
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 And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and [the man] begets a son, and 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 forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labour, that it should go [with him] 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 And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and what is his gain, for which he vainly labours?
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 Yea, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath.
Ahnie hnin a tha teh kahmawt thung doeh a loum sak. Tarawknae, Lungmathoe, lungkhueknae doeh a pang awh.
18 Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labour in which he may labour under the sun, [all] the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it 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 Yea, and [as for] every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; 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 much remember the days of his life; for God troubles him in the mirth of his heart.
Kaloum tangcoung e ahninnaw hah ngailawi pouk hanh. Lungthin nawmnae teh Cathut ni doeh na poe awh.
