Ecclesiastes 11

1 to send: depart food: bread your upon face: surface [the] water for in/on/with abundance [the] day to find him

Bwaka lipa na yo na likolo ya mayi, pamba te sima na mikolo ebele, okomona yango lisusu.

2 to give: give portion to/for seven and also to/for eight for not to know what? to be distress: harm upon [the] land: country/planet

Kaba biloko na yo na bato sambo to mwambe, pamba te oyebi te pasi nini ekoki koya na mokili.

3 if to fill [the] cloud rain upon [the] land: country/planet to empty and if to fall: fall tree in/on/with south and if in/on/with north place which/that to fall: fall [the] tree there to be

Soki mapata etondi na mayi, ebetisaka mvula na mokili. Nzete etikalaka kaka na esika oyo ekweyi, ezala na ngambo ya sude to na ngambo ya nor.

4 to keep: look at spirit: breath not to sow and to see: see in/on/with cloud not to reap

Moto oyo atalaka mopepe akolona nkona te, moto oyo atalaka mapata akobuka bambuma te.

5 like/as as which nothing you to know what? way: journey [the] spirit like/as bone in/on/with belly: womb [the] full thus not to know [obj] deed: work [the] God which to make [obj] [the] all

Ndenge oyebi te nzela ya mopepe to ndenge nini moto asalemaka kati na libumu ya mama na ye, ndenge wana mpe okokoka te kososola misala ya Nzambe oyo azali Mokeli ya nyonso.

6 in/on/with morning to sow [obj] seed your and to/for evening not to rest hand your for nothing you to know where? this to succeed this or this and if two their like/as one pleasant

Na tongo, lona milona na yo, mpe na pokwa, kopemisa maboko na yo te, pamba te oyebi te milona nini ekobima, ya tongo to ya pokwa to mpe nyonso mibale ekobima malamu.

7 and sweet [the] light and pleasant to/for eye to/for to see: see [obj] [the] sun

Pole ezali malamu, mpe miso esepelaka komona moyi.

8 that if: except if: except year to multiply to live [the] man in/on/with all their to rejoice and to remember [obj] day [the] darkness for to multiply to be all which/that to come (in): come vanity

Yango wana, soki moto asali mibu ebele na bomoi, tika ye asepela na mibu yango nyonso; kasi tika ete abosana te ete mibu ya pasi ekozala ebele, mpe ete makambo nyonso oyo ekoya sima ezali pamba.

9 to rejoice youth in/on/with youth your and be good you heart your in/on/with day youth your and to go: walk in/on/with way: conduct heart your and in/on/with appearance eye your and to know for upon all these to come (in): bring you [the] God in/on/with justice: judgement

Elenge, sepela na bolenge na yo, mpe tika ete motema na yo esepela na mikolo ya bolenge na yo! Landa nzela ya motema na yo mpe nyonso oyo esepelisaka miso na yo; kasi yeba ete, mpo na makambo wana nyonso, Nzambe akosambisa yo.

10 and to turn aside: remove vexation from heart your and to pass: bring distress: harm from flesh your for [the] youth and [the] dark hair vanity

Yango wana, longola mawa na motema na yo, longola pasi na nzoto na yo; pamba te bolenge mpe bomwana ezali pamba.