Ecclesiastes 3
1 There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.
Hno cawngca pueng ni amamae atueng a tawn. Kanî rahim vah pouk e pueng lengkaleng tawksaknae atueng ao.
2 There is a time to be born, and there is a time to die. There is a time to plant [seeds], and there is a time to harvest crops.
Khenae atueng hoi duenae atueng hai ao. Patuenae atueng ao patetlah phawknae atueng hai ao.
3 There is a time to kill [people], and there is a time to heal [people]. There is a time to tear things down, and there is a time to build things.
Theinae atueng ao patetlah dam saknae atueng hai ao. Raphoenae atueng ao patetlah bout saknae atueng hai ao.
4 There is a time to cry, and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn, and there is a time to dance [joyfully].
Kanae atueng hoi, panuinae atueng hai ao. Cingounae atueng hoi, lamtunae atueng hai ao.
5 There is a time to throw away stones [from a field], and there is a time to gather stones [to build walls/houses]. There is a time to embrace [people], and there is a time to not embrace [people].
Talungnaw kaheikalainae atueng ao. Pâkhuengnae atueng hai ao. Takawinae atueng ao, kâtakawi laipalah kâkapeknae atueng hai ao.
6 There is a time to search for things, and there is a time to stop searching for things. There is a time to keep/save things, and there is a time to throw things away.
Pâkuemnae atueng ao, hnopai a kahmanae hai ao. Pâtungnae atueng hoi, tâkhawngnae atueng hai ao.
7 There is a time to tear [our old clothes], and there is a time to mend [clothes]. There is a time to say nothing, and there is a time when we should speak.
Hnicu raveinae atueng hoi, khuinae atueng hai ao. Sairasuep onae atueng hoi, lawk deinae atueng hai ao.
8 There is a time when we should love [things that people do], and there is a time when we should hate [things that people do]. There is a time for war, and there is a time for peace.
Kâpahrennae atueng hoi, kâmaithoenae atueng hai ao. Tarankâtuknae atueng hoi, taran roumnae atueng hai ao.
9 (What do people gain from all the work that they do?/It seems that people gain very little from all the work that they do [RHQ]).
Ka tawk e tami ni panki teh a thapathonae hah bangmaw hawinae kaawm.
10 I have seen the work that God has given people to do.
Taminaw kho a sak nahan Cathut ni a poe e tawntanae hai, kai ni ka hmu toe.
11 God has appointed a time that is right/correct for everything to happen. He has [also] caused people to realize that there are things that will endure forever. But in spite of that, no one can completely understand everything that God has done, from the time that he starts doing things until he finishes them.
A cawngca pueng amamae atueng a pha nah, kahawicalah a sakyoe toe. Tami e lungthin hai a yungyoe e atueng dawk, a kamtawngnae koehoi apout totouh tami ni teh pâphue nakunghai baw thai hoeh.
12 I know that the best [LIT] thing for us people to do is to rejoice and to do good things [all] during the time that we are alive.
Lunghawinae hno dawk ka hring nah, hnokahawi sak hoeh e laipalah alouke thawnaw dawk, ahawinae awm hoeh tie ka panue.
13 And I also know that everyone should eat and drink, and enjoy the work that they do. Those are things that God gives to us.
Tami pueng canei hane hai thoseh, mahoima panki tha patho e naw dawk, nawm nahane hai thoseh, Cathut e lungmanae lahoi doeh kâtawnnae ao.
14 I [also] know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere him.
Cathut e hno a sak e naw teh a yungyoe doeh tie ka panue. Bout sak thai lah awm hoeh, bout rayu thai e lahai awm hoeh. Taminaw teh a hmalah, a taki awh nahanlah Cathut ni telah a sak e doeh.
15 Things that exist now have already existed previously, and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously; God causes the same things to happen many times.
Kaawm tangcoung e hno teh atu kaawm e hno hoi a kâvan. Bout kaawm hane hno hai, kaawm tangcoung e hno hoi a kâvan. Ka loum tangcoung e naw hai Cathut ni bout a hei.
16 Furthermore, I saw that on this earth [MTY], even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked [DOU] things.
Hothloilah, Kanî rahim lawkcengnae hmuen dawk kahawihoehe hno ao tie thoseh, lannae dawk yonnae ao tie hai thoseh, ka hmu toe.
17 [So] I said to myself [SYN], “God will judge [both] righteous [people] and wicked [people]; there is a time [for him to do that], because there is a time for him to do everything.”
Cathut ni tami kalannaw e tawksak e hoi, tamikalan hoeh naw e tawksak e hah lawk a ceng han telah ka pouk. Bangkongtetpawiteh, pouk e pueng, tawk e pueng lawkceng nahane atueng ao.
18 And regarding humans, I [also] said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that [in one way] people are no different than animals,
Taminaw e a hmuenhmawn ka pouk nah, taminaw Cathut ni a tanouk hane hoi, ahnimouh teh saringnaw patetlah doeh tie a kâpanue thai awh nahane hah doeh.
19 because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe [to remain alive]. [With regard to that], people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that.
Tami ni a kâhmo e saring ni hai kâvan e hno a kâhmo teh, bout a due e patetlah a due van. A cawngca pueng hringnae phun touh doeh rei ao awh. Hatdawkvah tami teh saring hlak a taluenae awm hoeh. A cawngca pueng ahrawnghrang seng doeh.
20 [People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil again.
A cawngca pueng buet touh e hmuen koe doeh ouk a pha awh. A cawngca pueng vaiphu dawk hoi a kangcoung e patetlah vaiphu lah bout a ban han.
21 No one knows [RHQ] for sure that when we die, our souls/spirits go up to heaven and the souls/spirits of animals go down to the place where the dead are.”
Hatnavah, lathueng lah ka luen e tami e muitha hai thoseh, rahim lae hmuen talai lah ka khum e saring e muitha hai thoseh, apinimaw a kapek thai teh a panue thai han.
22 So I concluded that the best thing for [us] people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say that because no one of us [RHQ] knows what happens to us after we die.
Tami ni a sak e hno dawk nawmnae hno hlak, hoe kahawi e hno awm hoeh tie ka hmu. Hote hno teh ahni hane doeh, ahni ni a hnukkhu lah bang hno ne ka tho han tie hah a panue nahan, apinimaw a bankhai han.
