Ecclesiastes 3
1 All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
Gen yon lè pou chak bagay. Bondye fikse yon tan pou chak bagay k'ap fèt sou latè.
2 A time to be born and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.
Li fikse lè pou ou fèt, lè pou ou mouri, lè pou ou plante, lè pou ou rekòlte,
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
lè pou ou touye, lè pou ou geri, lè pou ou kraze, lè pou ou bati.
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
Li fikse lè pou ou kriye, lè pou ou ri, lè pou ou nan lapenn, lè pou ou fè fèt,
5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
lè pou ou kouche ak madanm ou, lè pou ou pa kouche ak li, lè pou nou fè karès, lè pou nou pa fè karès.
6 A time to get, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
Li fikse lè pou ou chache, lè pou ou pèdi, lè pou ou fè ekonomi, lè pou ou gaspiye lajan,
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
lè pou ou dechire, lè pou ou koud, lè pou ou rete san pale, lè pou ou pale.
8 A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
Li fikse lè pou ou renmen, lè pou ou rayi, lè pou nou fè lagè, lè pou nou fè lapè.
9 What hath man more of his labour?
Kisa yon nonm jwenn nan travay li?
10 I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Mwen rive konnen ki kalite travay Bondye bay moun pou yo fè.
11 He hath made all things good in their time, and hath delivered the world to their consideration, so that man cannot find out the work which God hath made from the beginning to the end.
Li fikse yon lè pou chak bagay byen fèt. Li mete nan kè moun lanvi pou yo konnen sa ki gen pou rive denmen. Men, li pa janm kite yo fin konprann nèt travay l'ap fè a.
12 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
Mwen wè pi bon bagay yon moun ka fè nan lavi, se fè kè ou kontan epi se fè sa ou vin pou fè a byen.
13 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.
Tout moun fèt pou yo manje, pou yo bwè, pou yo jwi sa travay yo rapòte yo. Sa se kado Bondye ba yo.
14 I have learned that all the works which God hath made, continue for ever: we cannot add any thing, nor take away from those things which God hath made that he may be feared.
Mwen konnen tou sa Bondye fè la pou toutan. Ou pa ka mete anyen sou li, ou pa ka wete anyen ladan l'. Bondye fè sa konsa pou lèzòm ka gen krentif pou li.
15 That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.
Sa ki rive koulye a te rive deja! Sa ki gen pou rive te rive deja tou! Bondye fè bagay ki te rive deja rive ankò!
16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.
Apre sa, mwen wè sou latè se mechanste ou jwenn kote pou ou ta jwenn jistis. Malveyans chita nan tribinal yo.
17 And I said in my heart: God shall judge both the just and the wicked, and then shall be the time of every thing.
Mwen di nan kè mwen: Bondye ap jije ni bon yo ni mechan yo, paske chak bagay gen lè pa yo. Gen yon tan pou tou sa w'ap fè.
18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
Mwen di nan kè mwen ankò: Bondye ap gade kote moun ye. L'ap fè yo wè yo pa pi bon pase zannimo.
19 Therefore the death of man, and of beasts is one, and the condition of them both is equal: as man dieth, so they also die: all things breathe alike, and man hath nothing more than beast: all things are subject to vanity.
Lè ou gade byen, sò moun ak sò zannimo, se menm bagay la. Ni yonn ni lòt gen pou mouri. Se menm souf la k'ap bat nan tou de. Moun pa gen ankenn avantaj sou zannimo, paske lavi pa vo anyen ni pou yonn ni pou lòt.
20 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.
Tou de pral menm kote Tou de soti nan pousyè tè a. Tou de ap tounen pousyè tè a ankò.
21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
Ki moun ki konnen si nanm moun moute anwo nan syèl epi nanm zannimo desann anba tè vre?
22 And I have found that nothing is better than for a man to rejoice in his work, and that this is his portion. For who shall bring him to know the things that shall be after him?
Konsa, mwen wè pa gen pi bon bagay yon moun ka fè sou latè pase jwi sa travay li rapòte l'. Se sèlman sa li ka fè. Epitou, ki moun k'ap fè l' tounen pou l' ka konnen sa k'ap rive apre li fin mouri?
