Ecclesiastes 6
1 There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
मैले सूर्यमूनि एउटा खराबी देखेको छु, र यसले मानिसहरूलाई सार्है थिचेको छ ।
2 A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.
मानिसले इच्छा गरेको कुनै पनि कुरो कमी नहोस् भनेरे परमेश्वरले उसलाई धन-सम्पत्ति, जग्गा-जमिन र मान-सम्मान दिनुहोला, तर त्यसपछि परमेश्वरले उसलाई त्यसको उपभोग गर्ने कुनै खुबी दिनुहुन्न । बरु त्यसको थोकहरू अरू कसैले उपभोग गर्दछ । यो बाफ र खराब पीडा हो ।
3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
कुनै मानिस एक सय जना छोराछोरीको बुबा बन्यो र त्यो धेरै वर्षसम्म बाँच्यो अनि त्यसका दिनहरू धेरै भएर पनि असल कुराहरूले त्यसको हृदय सन्तुष्ट भएन र त्यसलाई गाडिएन भने त्यो मानिसभन्दा जन्मँदै मरेको बच्चा उत्तम हो ।
4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
यस्तो बच्चा व्यर्थमा जन्मन्छ र अन्धकारमा लोप हुन्छ, अनि त्यसको नाउँ लुकेको अवस्थामा रहन्छ ।
5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
त्यस बच्चाले घामलाई नदेखे तापनि र कुनै कुरा नजाने तापनि त्यस मानिसले भन्दा यसको विश्राम असल हुन्छ ।
6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
मानिस दुई हजार वर्षसम्म बाँचेर पनि असल थोकहरूको आनन्द लिन पाउँदैन भने त्यो मानिस पनि त्यहीँ जान्छ, जहाँ हरेक मानिस जान्छ ।
7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
मानिसका सबै काम त्यसको मुखको लागि हो, तापनि त्यसको भोक सन्तुष्ट हुँदैन ।
8 What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
वास्तवमा मूर्खलाई भन्दा बुद्धिमान् मानिसलाई केचाहिँ बढी फाइदा छ र? अरू मानिसहरूको सामुन्ने कसरी व्यवहार गर्ने भनी गरिब मानिसलाई थाहा भए तापनि त्यसलाई के लाभ हुन्छ र?
9 Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.
भौँतारिहिँड्ने भोकको लालसाले गर्ने इच्छाभन्दा आँखाले जे देख्छ, त्यसबाट सन्तुष्ट हुनु उत्तम हुन्छ । यो पनि बाफ र बतासलाई खेद्ने कोसिस मात्र हो ।
10 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.
जे अस्तित्वमा रहेको छ, त्यसको पहिले नै नाउँ राखिएको छ, र मानव-जाति के हो भनी पहिले नै जानिएको छ । सबैका शक्तिशाली न्यायाधीशसित बहस गर्नु अर्थहीन भएको छ ।
11 There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
जति धेरै वचन बोलिन्छ, त्यति नै धेरै व्यर्थताको वृद्धि हुन्छ । त्यसो भए, मानिसलाई के लाभ हुन्छ र?
12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?
किनभने छायाझैँ बितिजाने मानिसको छोटो जीवनमा त्यसको व्यर्थताको बेलामा केचाहिँ असल हो भनी कसलाई थाहा हुन्छ र? सूर्यमूनि मानिसको मृत्यु भएपछि के हुन्छ भनी कसले भन्न सक्छ र?
