Ecclesiastes 3
1 To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
हरेक कुराको लागि तोकिएको समय छ, र आकाशमूनि हरेक उद्धेश्यको लागि बेलाछ ।
2 A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.
जन्मने एउटा समय छ, र मर्ने एउटा समय । रोप्ने एउटा समय छ, र उखेल्ने एउटा समय ।
3 A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.
मार्ने एउटा समय छ, र निको पार्ने एउटा समय । भत्काउने एउटा समय छ, र बनाउने एउटा समय ।
4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.
रुने एउटा समय छ, र हाँस्ने एउटा समय । शोक गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र नाच्ने एउटा समय ।
5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.
ढुङ्गा फ्याँक्ने एउटा समय छ, र ती बटुल्ने एउटा समय । अरू मानिसलाई अङ्गाल्ने एउटा समय छ, र त्यसबाट अलग रहने एउटा समय ।
6 A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.
खोजी गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र खोज्न छाड्ने एउटा समय । राख्ने एउटा समय छ, र फाल्ने एउटा समय ।
7 A time to tear, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.
लुगा च्यात्ने एउटा समय छ, र त्यसलाई मर्मत गर्ने एउटा समय । चुप लाग्ने एउटा समय छ, र बोल्ने एउटा समय ।
8 A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
प्रेम गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र घृणा गर्ने एउटा समय । युद्ध गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र मिलाप गर्ने एउटा समय ।
9 What advantage does the doer have in that which he is laboring at?
कामदारले आफ्नो परिश्रमबाट के लाभ पाउँछ र?
10 I have seen the travail that God has given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
मानव-जातिलाई पुरा गर्न परमेश्वरले दिनुभएको काम मैले देखेको छु ।
11 The whole He has made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He has put in their heart without which man does not find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
परमेश्वरले हरेक कुरोलाई त्यसको आफ्नो समयमा सुयोग्य बनाउनुभएको छ । उहाँले मानिसहरूका हृदयमा अनन्तता पनि राखिदिनुभएको छ । तर मानव-जातिले सुरुदेखि अन्त्यसम्म परमेश्वरले गर्नुभएका कामहरू बुझ्न सक्दैन ।
12 I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,
मानिस बाँचुञ्जेलसम्म त्यो आनन्दित रहनु र असल गर्नुभन्दा त्यसको लागि अर्को कुनै उत्तम कुरो छैन भनी मलाई थाहा छ ।
13 indeed, even every man who eats and has drunk and seen good by all his labor, it [is] a gift of God.
हरेकले खानुपर्छ र पिउनुपर्छ, अनि आफ्ना सबै कामबाट आउने असल कुराहरूमा कसरी आनन्द मनाउने भनी बुझ्नुपर्छ । यो नै परमेश्वरको उपहार हो ।
14 I have known that all that God does is for all time, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God has worked that they fear before Him.
मलाई थाहा छ, कि परमेश्वरले जे गर्नुहुन्छ, त्यो रहिरहन्छ । त्यसमा केही थप्न सकिँदैन, न त त्यसबाट हटाउन सकिन्छ, किनकि परमेश्वरले नै त्यो गर्नुभएको हो ताकि मानिसहरू आदरसाथ उहाँकहाँ जाऊन् ।
15 What is that which has been? Already it is, and that which [is] to be has already been, and God requires that which is pursued.
जे अस्तित्वमा छ, त्यो पहिलेदेखि नै अस्तित्वमा रहेको छ । जे अस्तित्वमा रहने छ, त्यो पहिलेदेखि नै अस्तित्वमा रहेको छ । लुकिएका कुराहरूको खोजी गर्न परमेश्वरले मानिसहरूलाई बनाउनुहुन्छ ।
16 And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment—there [is] the wicked; and the place of righteousness—there [is] the wicked.
सूर्यमूनिको दुष्टतालाई मैले देखेको छु, जहाँ न्याय हुनुपर्थ्यो, र धार्मिकताको सट्टामा दुष्टता थियो ।
17 I said in my heart, “The righteous and the wicked God judges, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.”
मैले मेरो मनमा भनेँ, “हरेक विषय र हरेक कामको लागि ठिक समयमा परमेश्वरले धर्मीहरू र दुष्टहरूको न्याय गर्नुहुने छ ।”
18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] beasts.
मैले मेरो हृदयमा भनेँ, “मानिसहरू पशुहरूजस्तै हुन् भनी देखाउन परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूको जाँच गर्नुहुन्छ ।”
19 For an event [is to] the sons of man, and an event [is to] the beasts, even one event [is] to them; as the death of this, so [is] the death of that; and one spirit [is] to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole [is] vanity.
किनकि मानव-जातिको अन्त्य र पशुहरूको अन्त्य समान छ । एउटाको मृत्यु अर्कोको जस्तै छ । तिनीहरू सबैको एउटै सास छ । मानव-जातिलाई पशुहरूलाई भन्दा बढी लाभ छैन । किनकि के सबै कुरा सास नै होइन र?
20 The whole are going to one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back to the dust.
हरेक कुरा उहाँ ठाउँमा जान्छ । हरेक कुरा धुलोबाट आउँछ, र धुलोमा नै फर्केर जान्छ ।
21 Who knows the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?
मानिसको आत्मा उँभोतिर र पशुको प्राण तलतिर माटोमा जान्छ भनी कसलाई थाहा छ र?
22 And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who brings him to look on that which is after him?
त्यसैले मानिसको लागि आफ्नो काममा आनन्द लिनुभन्दा उत्तम कुरो छैन भनी फेरि मैले बुझेँ, किनकि त्यो नै त्यसको जिम्मेवारी हो । त्योभन्दा पछि के हुन्छ भनी देखाउन त्यसलाई कसले फर्काएर ल्याउन सक्छ र?
