Ecclesiastes 5
1 Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
Batela makolo na yo tango ozali kokende na Ndako ya Nzambe; eleki malamu kokende kuna mpo na koyoka, kasi mpo na kobonza mbeka ya bazoba te, pamba te bayebaka te ete basalaka mabe.
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter [any] thing before God: for God [is] in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
Kowelela te kofungola monoko na yo, mpe tika ete motema na yo ewelela te kobimisa liloba liboso ya Nzambe! Pamba te Nzambe azali na likolo, mpe yo ozali na mabele. Boye, tika ete maloba na yo ezalaka mingi te!
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice [is known] by multitude of words.
Ndenge ndoto eyaka soki moto azali na misala mingi, ndenge wana mpe maloba ebele ebimisaka bozoba.
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.
Soki olapi ndayi liboso ya Nzambe, kowumela te mpo na kokokisa yango; pamba te Nzambe asepelaka na bazoba te; kokisa ndayi na yo.
5 Better [is it] that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
Eleki malamu ete olapa na yo kutu ndayi te na esika ya kolapa ndayi mpe ozanga kokokisa yango.
6 Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it [was] an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
Kotika te ete monoko na yo ememisa yo masumu, mpe kokende koloba te liboso ya basali ya Nzambe: « Ndayi na ngai ezalaki libunga. » Mpo na nini Nzambe atomboka mpo na maloba na yo mpe abebisa misala ya maboko na yo?
7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words [there are] also [divers] vanities: but fear thou God.
Ndoto ebele mpe maloba ebele ezali kaka pamba; yango wana tosa nde Nzambe.
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 [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.
Soki omoni ete bazali konyokola mobola kati na mokili, bongo boyengebene mpe bosembo etiolami, kokamwa likambo yango te; pamba te mokambi moko azali na se ya mokambi mosusu; mpe na likolo na bango mibale, ezali na bakonzi mosusu oyo baleki na bokonzi.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king [himself] is served by the field.
Biloko oyo mabele ebotaka ezali mpo na bolamu ya bato nyonso; ezala mokonzi, abikaka mpe na mbuma ya bilanga.
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this [is] also vanity.
Moto oyo alingaka mbongo atondaka yango te, mpe moto oyo alingaka bomengo, bozwi na ye etondisaka ye te. Wana mpe ezali kaka pamba.
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good [is there] to the owners thereof, saving the beholding [of them] with their eyes?
Ndenge bozwi ya moto ekomaka ebele, ndenge wana mpe bato oyo baliaka yango bakomaka ebele; bongo litomba nini nkolo na yango akozwa, soki kaka te komona yango na miso?
12 The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
Pongi ya mosali ezalaka ya kimia, ata soki alie moke to mingi; kasi bomengo ya mozwi ezangisaka ye pongi.
13 There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Namoni mabe moko na se ya moyi, epesaka penza mawa: moto abombi bomengo na ye, kasi ememeli ye pasi;
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
likambo moko ya mabe ya mbalakata ebebisi bomengo yango, mpe mwana na ye azangi libula ya kokitana na yango.
15 As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ndenge abotamaki bolumbu wuta na libumu ya mama na ye, ndenge mpe akozanga bolumbu, akomema ata mbuma moko te ya mosala na ye.
16 And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
Oyo mpe ezali lisusu pasi oyo epesaka mawa: ndenge moto ayaki, ndenge mpe akozonga. Bongo litomba na ye ezali nini? Asali kaka mpo na mopepe?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
Alekisi mikolo nyonso ya bomoi na ye kati na molili, na pasi, na komitungisa mpe na kanda.
18 Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion.
Mpo na yango, tala likambo oyo ngai namoni ete ezali malamu: ebongi na moto kolia, komela mpe kosepela na mbuma ya mosala na ye na se ya moyi, na mikolo ya bomoi oyo Nzambe apesi ye, pamba te yango nde libula na ye.
19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this [is] the gift of God.
Kutu, epai na moto nyonso oyo Nzambe apesi bomengo mpe biloko ebele, bongo apesi ye lisusu makoki ya kosalela yango, ya kozwa libula na ye mpe ya kosepela na mbuma ya mosala na ye, wana ezali penza likabo ya Nzambe!
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.
Nzokande, wana Nzambe akotondisa motema na ye na esengo, moto yango akosala keba te na motango ya mikolo ya bomoi na ye.
