Ecclesiastes 3
1 All things have their season, and in their times all things pass under heaven.
Chinhu chimwe nechimwe chine nguva yacho, uye basa rimwe nerimwe rine nguva yaro pasi pedenga:
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.
nguva yokuberekwa nenguva yokufa, nguva yokusima nenguva yokudzura;
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to destroy, and a time to build.
nguva yokuuraya nenguva yokuporesa, nguva yokuputsa nenguva yokuvaka;
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
nguva yokuchema nenguva yokuseka, nguva yokuungudza nenguva yokudzana;
5 A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
nguva yokurasa mabwe nenguva yokuaunganidza pamwe chete, nguva yokumbundikira nenguva yokurega;
6 A time to get, 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 keep silence, and a time to speak.
nguva yokubvarura nenguva yokusona, nguva yokunyarara nenguva yokutaura;
8 A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
nguva yokuda nenguva yokuvenga, nguva yehondo nenguva yorugare.
9 What hath man more of his labour?
Ko, mushandi anowanei kubva mukushanda kwake kwose?
10 I have seen the trouble, which God hath given the sons of men to be exercised in it.
Ndakaona mutoro wakapiwa vanhu naMwari.
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.
Akaita chinhu chimwe nechimwe chakanaka nenguva yacho. Akaisawo zvisingaperi mumwoyo yavanhu; kunyange zvakadaro havangagoni kunzwisisa zvakaitwa naMwari kubva pakutanga kusvika pakupedzisira.
12 And I have known that there was no better thing than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
Ndinoziva kuti hakuna chinhu chakanakira munhu kupfuura kuti afare uye kuti aite zvakanaka achiri mupenyu.
13 For every man that eateth and drinketh, and seeth good of his labour, this is the gift of God.
Kuti munhu wose adye uye anwe uye azviwanire kugutsikana kubva pakushanda kwake kwose, ichi ndicho chipo chaMwari.
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.
Ndinoziva kuti zvose zvinoitwa naMwari zvichagara nokusingaperi; hapana chingawedzerwa pazviri uye hapana chingabviswa pazviri. Mwari anozviita kuti vanhu vamukudze.
15 That which hath been made, the same continueth: the things that shall be, have already been: and God restoreth that which is past.
Chipi nechipi chiripo zvino, chakagara chiripo kare, uye zvichazovapo zvakatovapo kare; uye Mwari anotsvakazve zvakapfuura.
16 I saw under the sun in the place of judgment wickedness, and in the place of justice iniquity.
Uyezve ndakaona chimwe chinhu pasi pezuva: Panzvimbo yokururamisira, zvakaipa zvakanga zviripo, panzvimbo yokururama, zvakaipa zvakanga zviripo.
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.
Ndakafunga mumwoyo mangu ndikati, “Mwari achatonga vose vakarurama nevakaipa, nokuti pachava nenguva yebasa rimwe nerimwe.”
18 I said in my heart concerning the sons of men, that God would prove them, and shew them to be like beasts.
Ndakatizve, “Kana vari vanhu, Mwari anovaedza kuti vaone kuti vakangofanana nemhuka.
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.
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 And all things go to one place: of earth they were made, and into earth they return together.
Zvose zvinoenda kunzvimbo imwe chete; zvose zvinobva kuvhu, uye kuvhu zvose zvinodzokera.
21 Who knoweth if the spirit of the children of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
Ndiani angaziva kana mweya womunhu uchikwira kuenda kumusoro uye kana mweya wemhuka uchidzika pasi?”
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?
Saka ndakaona kuti hapana chingapfuure ichi, kuti munhu afadzwe nebasa rake, nokuti uyu ndiwo mugove wake. Nokuti ndiani achazomudzosazve kuti aone zvichazoitika shure kwake?
