Ecclesiastes 12
1 While you are still young, keep thinking about [God], who created you. Do that before [you are old] and you experience many troubles, during the years when you say “I no [longer] enjoy being alive.”
Amaiba: le, dilia da goi gogawane, dili Hahamosu Dunu dawa: ma. Fa: no da: i dioi eso da dilima doaga: mu. Amo ganodini dilia da, “Na esalusu ganodini, na da hahawane hame gala,” amane sia: mu.
2 [When you become old], the light from the sun and moon and stars will [seem] dim [to you], and [it will seem that the rain] clouds [always] return [quickly] after it rains.
Amo esoha eso amola oubi amola gasumuni ilia hadigi amo di da gasi hahamoi agoane ba: mu, amola eso huluane gibu mobi da dialumu.
3 Then your [arms that you use to protect] [MET] your bodies will shake/tremble, and your [legs that support] [MET] your bodies will become weak. Many of your [teeth that you use to] grind/chew [your food] will fall out, and your [eyes that you use to] look out of windows will not see clearly.
Amasea, dia lobo (amo da di gaga: i dialu) da yagugumu amola dia emo waha gasa galebe, da goayamu. Dia bese oda da duduga: iba: le, dia ha: i manu agimu gogolemu amola dia si da uliligiba: le, noga: le ba: mu gogolemu.
4 Your [ears] [MET] will not hear the noise in the streets, and you will not be able to hear clearly the sound of people grinding grain with millstones. You will be awakened in the morning by hearing the birds singing/chirping, [but] you will not be able to hear well the songs that (the birds/people) sing.
Dia ge da ga: i dagoiba: le, logoba: le ga: da hame nabimu. Di da gagoma goudasu ea ga: amola baidama dubi amo fonobahadi fawane nabimu. Be sio ea gesami hea: su amoga fawane da dia golabe didilisimu.
5 You will be afraid to be in high places and afraid of dangers on the roads that you walk on. [Your hair] will become [white like] [MET] the flowers of almond trees. [When you try to walk], you will drag yourself along like [MET] grasshoppers, and you will no longer desire [to have sex]. Then you will [die and] go to your eternal home, and people who will mourn for you will be in the streets.
Di da gadodafa sogebi amoga masa: ne beda: mu, amola dia ahoabe da se nabasa: besa: le, beda: mu. Dia dialuma hinabo da gago aligimu. Di da gasa fili masunu gogolemu amola dia hanai dawa: su da asi dagoi ba: mu. Ninia da esalebe dagomusa: helefisu amoga ahoa, amola ninia bogosea, dunu da logoga heawini dinanebe ba: mu.
6 [Think much about God now, because] soon our lives will end, [like] [MET] silver chains or golden bowls that break easily, or like pitchers/jugs that are broken at the water fountain, or like broken pulleys at a well.
Silifa sia: ine da damui dagoi ba: mu. Gouliga hamoi gamali da hanega: ne sa: ili, goudamu. Hano nasu ulidou ea hano disu efe da damuni gala: mu amola hano disu ofodo da goudamu.
7 Then our corpses will [decay and] become dirt again, and our spirits will return to God, the one who gave us our spirits.
Ninia da: i da osobo guluga buhagimu. Amola ninia mifo amo Gode da ninma i, amo da Hima buhagimu.
8 [So] I say [again] that it is difficult to understand why everything happens; everything is mysterious.
Sia: Dabe Alofele Iasu Dunu da amane sia: i, “Hamedei! Hamedei! Huluanedafa da hamedei!”
9 I was considered to be a very wise man, and I taught the people many things. I assembled/collected and wrote down many proverbs, and I carefully thought about and studied them.
Be Sia: Dabe Alofele Iasu Dunu da dawa: bagade lai dagoiba: le, e da gebewane dunu oda ilima ea dawa: hou olelelalu. E da malasu dedei ilia bai hogolalu, ilia hou ba: le dawa: musa: adoba: i.
10 I searched for the right words, and what I have written is reliable and true.
E da eno dunu dogo denesima: ne sia: hogoi helei. Be e da sia: moloidafa fawane dedei.
11 The things that [I and other] wise people say [teach people what they should do]; they are like [SIM] (goads/sharp sticks that people use to strike animals to direct where they should go). They are like [SIM] nails that stick out of pieces of wood. They are given to us by [God, who is like] [MET] our shepherd.
Bagade dawa: su dunu ilia fada: i sia: da galiamo debei amoga sibi ouligisu dunu da ilia sibi sesu, agoaiwane gala. Amola malasu gilisi da mae mugululi, gafesi noga: le dabagala: i defele agoane ba: mu. Gode da ninia Sibi Ouligisudafa afadafa fawane esala. Amola E da amo malasu ninima i dagoi.
12 [So], my son, pay careful attention to what I have written, and choose carefully what you read that others have written, [because] writing proverbs/books is endless, and [trying to] study them all will cause you to become exhausted.
Nagofe! Liligi eno amo di noga: le dawa: digima: ne diala. Buga dedesu dagomu dibi da hamedafa. Amola di da baligili dawa: bagade lamusa: hamosea, hele bagade nabimu.
13 [Now] you have heard all [that I have told you], and here is the conclusion: Revere God, and obey his commandments, because those commandments summarize everything that people should do.
Wali, sia: huluane da sia: i dagoi. Be sia: dagomusa: , sia: afadafa fawane gala, amane. “Godeba: le beda: ma! Ea hamoma: ne sia: i nabawane hamoma! Bai amo hou hamoma: ne, Gode da dunu fi hahamoi dagoi.
14 And do not forget that God will judge everything that we do, good things and bad things, [even] things that we do secretly.
Gode da ninia hamoi, noga: i o wadela: i, amo huluane amoma fofada: mu. Siga ba: i hou amola wamo hamoi hou, amo huluanema, E da fofada: mu.” Sia: ama dagoi
