Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who [is] as the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Apimaw a lungkaang e patetlah kaawm Apimaw deicainae ka panuek. Lungangnae ni minhmai a pan sak teh taranhawinae mei a kamnue sak.
2 I [counsel]: keep the command of a king, even for the sake of an oath [to] God.
Cathut hmalah lawk na kam e patetlah siangpahrang e lawk ngâi haw telah pouknae na poe.
3 Do not be troubled at his presence, you may go, do not stand in an evil thing, for all that he pleases he does.
Siangpahrang hmalah hoi karanglah tâcawt hanh. Kahawi hoeh e hno saknae koe lah kampang hanh. Bangkongtetpawiteh, a ngai e patetlah lawk a ceng.
4 Where the word of a king [is] power [is], and who says to him, “What do you do?”
Siangpahrang e kâlawk dawk bahu ao. Ahni koe apini maw, nang bangmaw na sak tie hah a pacei ngam han.
5 Whoever is keeping a command knows no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knows.
Ahnie kâ ka tarawi e teh runae dawk hoi a hlout han. Tami a lungkaang e a lungthin ni atueng hoi sak han kawi a panue.
6 For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great on him.
Tami ni a pouk e pueng hah atueng hoi saknae kâ ao. Hatei, tami teh runae puenghoi a khang.
7 For he does not know that which will be, for when it will be who declares to him?
Hmalah ka tho hane panuek hoeh. Bangtelamaw ao han tie apinihai dei thai hoeh.
8 There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness does not deliver its possessors.
Apihai muitha ka kuen thai e tami buet touh hai awm hoeh. A due hnin dawk apinihai kâ tawn hoeh. Hote kâtuknae dawk hoi apihai hlout thai hoeh. Yonnae a sak ei nakunghai, yonnae ni hot dawk hoi hlout sak thai hoeh.
9 All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; a time that man has ruled over man to his own evil.
Hetnaw pueng heh ka hmu toe. Kanî rahim vah sakyoe e pueng heh ka pouk toe. Amahoima runae kâhmo hanelah ayâ alouknaw uknae tueng hai ao.
10 And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This [is] also vanity.
Hothloilah, thoungnae hmuen koe ka cet e tami kahawihoehnaw pakawp lah ao awh e hai thoseh, hawihoehnae a saknae kho dawk apinihai ahni hah a pouk awh hoeh e hai thoseh, ka hmu toe. Hathai ahrawnghrang doeh.
11 Because sentence has not been done [on] an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.
Kahawi hoeh ka sak naw hah karanglah lawkceng teh dan ouk a poe hoeh dawkvah, taminaw ni kahawihoehe hno sak hanelah a lungtang awh.
12 Though a sinner is doing evil one hundred [times], and prolonging [himself] for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
Tami kahawihoeh ni avai cum touh hawihoehnae a sak nahlangva a hring a saw eiteh, Cathut kataketnaw ni a hmalah a taki awh dawkvah, hawinae a coe awh han tie kamcengcalah ka hmu.
13 And good is not to the wicked, and he does not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
Tami kahawihoehe niteh, Cathut a taki hoeh dawkvah hawinae coe mahoeh. Tâhlip hoi kâvan e a hringnae hai aduem han.
14 There is a vanity that has been done on the earth, that there are righteous ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this [is] also vanity.
Talai van kaawm e ahrawnghrang hno buet touh teh, tami kahawihoehnaw ni a pang awh hane kathout hno hah tami kalannaw ni a pang awh teh, tami kalannaw ni a pang awh hane kahawi hno hah tami kahawihoehnaw ni letlang a pang awh. Hathai ahrawnghrang doeh telah ka pouk.
15 And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remains with him of his labor the days of his life that God has given to him under the sun.
Hatnavah nawmnae hah ka oup. Bangkongtetpawiteh, kanî rahim vah caneinae, nawmnae hlakvah kahawi e hno awm hoeh. Kanî rahim vah Cathut ni na hring sak nathung vah, panki laihoi hmu e hno thung dawkvah, hot doeh pou coe awh.
16 When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that has been done on the earth (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
Lungangnae panue hane hoi talai van thaw tawk e pueng hmu hanelah karum khodai ip laipalah ka lungthin ka hroecoe navah,
17 then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that has been done under the sun, because though man labor to seek, yet he does not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
Cathut ni kanî rahim a sak e hno pueng tami ni panuek thai hoeh tie ka hmu. Hothloilah banghloi e a lungkaang ni koung ka panue han ka tet nakunghai coung thai hoeh.
