Ecclesiastes 5
1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.
Pathen im la na caeh vaengkah bangla na kho neh na khokan te ngaithuen. Te dongah hnatun hamla n'tawn uh he aka ang kah hmueih nawn lakah then. Amih loh boethae a saii te khaw ming uh pawh.
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.
Pathen mikhmuh ah ol aka thak la na ka te let sak boel lamtah na lungbuei loe boel saeh. Pathen tah vaan ah om tih nang tah diklai ah ni na om. Te dongah na ol yol saeh.
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
Bibi a cungkuem vaengah mueimang khaw om tih olka a cungkuem vaengah hlang ang ol la poeh.
4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
Pathen taengah olcaeng na caeng vaengah na thuung ham uelh boeh. Na caeng bangla a thuung te aka ang kah kongaih moenih.
5 Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Na caeng tih na thuung pawt lakah na caeng pawt te then.
6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
Na pumsa te tholh sak hamla na ka te khueh boeh. Tohtamaeh kah te puencawn mikhmuh ah thui boeh. Na ol dongah balae tih Pathen thin a toek? Te dongah na kut dongkah bibi te a phae.
7 For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.
Mueimang a yet vaengah a honghi neh ol khaw yet. Te dongah Pathen te rhih laeh.
8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.
Paeng ah khodaeng hnaemtaeknah khaw, tiktamnah neh duengnah lamloh pitnah na hmuh. Te te ngaihnah dongah khaw na ngaihmang sak boeh. A sang soah a sang la a dawn tih amih lakah sang lah ko.
9 Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.
Amah khohmuen aka tawn manghai loh a cungkuem dongah khohmuen kah rhoeikhangnah te amah la a dang.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
Tangka aka lungnah khaw tangka hah pawt tih boeinah aka lungnah te khaw a vueithaih a dang moenih. He khaw a honghi mai ni.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
Hnothen a ping ham vaengah te te aka ca rhoek khaw pungtai uh. Te dongah a kungmah te tah a mik loh danyoe sawthong phoeiah tah balae a thoemthainah voel.
12 The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.
Aka thotat tah a yol akhaw, a yet a caak akhaw a ih tui. Tedae hlanglen kah khobuh long tah amah te ih sak ham pataeng duem sak pawh.
13 There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
Boethae a om he khomik hmuiah a tloh la ka hmuh. Khuehtawn he a kungmah loh a ngaithuen akhaw amah yoethaenah ham ni.
14 or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Khuehtawn he bibi thae ah a paltham mai. Te dongah capa a sak akhaw a kut dongah pakhat pataeng a om moenih.
15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
A manu bung lamloh pumtling ha thoeng tih a caeh vaengah khaw a thoeng vaengkah banglam ni a mael. A thakthaenah lamkah te pakhat pataeng a kut dongah a khuen hamla a phueih moenih.
16 And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?
Ha thoeng vaengkah bangla voeivang a caeh he khaw boeih thae tih tlo bal. Te dongah khohli hamla a thakthae he anih ham balae a rhoeikhangnah.
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
Amah tue khuiah khaw hmaisuep ah a caak tih a tlohtat neh a thinhul ah muep hue a sak.
18 Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.
Sakthen la caak ham neh ok ham khaw, hnothen a hmuh ham khaw a then la ka hmuh coeng ne. Khomik hmui kah a hingnah khohnin tarhing la a thakthaenah cungkuem neh thakthae. A hingnah te Pathen loh anih taengah amah kah hamsum la a paek.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.
Pathen loh hlang boeih te a taengkah khuehtawn neh koeva a paek pai. Te dongah te lamloh a caak ham neh a hamsum a duen ham khaw, a thakthaenah khui lamloh kohoe sak ham khaw a taemrhai. He tah Pathen kah kutdoe rhoe ni.
20 For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.
Pathen loh kohoenah neh a lungbuei a phaep pah dongah a hingnah khohnin te puet poek pawh.
