Ecclesiastes 3
1 To all things there is a time, and a season for every matter under heaven.
Chinhu chimwe nechimwe chine nguva yacho, uye basa rimwe nerimwe rine nguva yaro pasi pedenga:
2 A time of birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;
nguva yokuberekwa nenguva yokufa, nguva yokusima nenguva yokudzura;
3 a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to pull down, and a time to build up;
nguva yokuuraya nenguva yokuporesa, nguva yokuputsa nenguva yokuvaka;
4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to lament, and a time to dance;
nguva yokuchema nenguva yokuseka, nguva yokuungudza nenguva yokudzana;
5 a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;
nguva yokurasa mabwe nenguva yokuaunganidza pamwe chete, nguva yokumbundikira nenguva yokurega;
6 a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
nguva yokutsvaka nenguva yokurega zvirasike, nguva yokuchengeta nenguva yokurasa;
7 a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;
nguva yokubvarura nenguva yokusona, nguva yokunyarara nenguva yokutaura;
8 a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
nguva yokuda nenguva yokuvenga, nguva yehondo nenguva yorugare.
9 What advantage [has] he that works in those things wherein he labours?
Ko, mushandi anowanei kubva mukushanda kwake kwose?
10 I have seen all the trouble, which God has given to the sons of men to be troubled with.
Ndakaona mutoro wakapiwa vanhu naMwari.
11 All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time: he has also set the whole world in their heart, that man might not find out the work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end.
Akaita chinhu chimwe nechimwe chakanaka nenguva yacho. Akaisawo zvisingaperi mumwoyo yavanhu; kunyange zvakadaro havangagoni kunzwisisa zvakaitwa naMwari kubva pakutanga kusvika pakupedzisira.
12 I know that there is no good in them, except [for a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
Ndinoziva kuti hakuna chinhu chakanakira munhu kupfuura kuti afare uye kuti aite zvakanaka achiri mupenyu.
13 Also [in the case of] every man who shall eat and drink, and see good in all his labour, [this] is a gift of God.
Kuti munhu wose adye uye anwe uye azviwanire kugutsikana kubva pakushanda kwake kwose, ichi ndicho chipo chaMwari.
14 I know that whatever things God has done, they shall be for ever: it is impossible to add to it, and it is impossible to take away from it: and God has done [it], that [men] may fear before him.
Ndinoziva kuti zvose zvinoitwa naMwari zvichagara nokusingaperi; hapana chingawedzerwa pazviri uye hapana chingabviswa pazviri. Mwari anozviita kuti vanhu vamukudze.
15 That which has been is now; and whatever things [are appointed] to be have already been; and God will seek out that which is past.
Chipi nechipi chiripo zvino, chakagara chiripo kare, uye zvichazovapo zvakatovapo kare; uye Mwari anotsvakazve zvakapfuura.
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgement, there was the ungodly one; and the place of righteousness, there was the godly one.
Uyezve ndakaona chimwe chinhu pasi pezuva: Panzvimbo yokururamisira, zvakaipa zvakanga zviripo, panzvimbo yokururama, zvakaipa zvakanga zviripo.
17 And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: for there is a time there for every action and for every work.
Ndakafunga mumwoyo mangu ndikati, “Mwari achatonga vose vakarurama nevakaipa, nokuti pachava nenguva yebasa rimwe nerimwe.”
18 I said in my heart, concerning the speech of the sons of man, God will judge them, and that to show that they are breasts.
Ndakatizve, “Kana vari vanhu, Mwari anovaedza kuti vaone kuti vakangofanana nemhuka.
19 Also to them is the event of the sons of man, and the event of the brute; one event befalls them: as is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; and there is one breath to all: and what has the man more than the brute? nothing; for all is vanity.
Zvinoitika kumunhu zvakafanana nezvinoitika kumhuka; zvose zvinoitirwa zvimwe chetezvo: sokufa kunoita chimwe, chimwe chinofawo. Zvose zvinofema mweya mumwe; munhu hapana paanopfuura mhuka. Zvose hazvina maturo.
20 All [go] to one place; all were formed of the dust, and all will return to dust.
Zvose zvinoenda kunzvimbo imwe chete; zvose zvinobva kuvhu, uye kuvhu zvose zvinodzokera.
21 And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward? and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?
Ndiani angaziva kana mweya womunhu uchikwira kuenda kumusoro uye kana mweya wemhuka uchidzika pasi?”
22 And I saw that there was no good, but that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works, for it is his portion, for who shall bring him to see any thing of that which shall be after him?
Saka ndakaona kuti hapana chingapfuure ichi, kuti munhu afadzwe nebasa rake, nokuti uyu ndiwo mugove wake. Nokuti ndiani achazomudzosazve kuti aone zvichazoitika shure kwake?
