Ecclesiastes 5
1 When you enter God’s temple, you should be sure to listen carefully. Doing that is better than offering sacrifices to God [and then not obeying him], which is foolish.
Dawa: ma: i! Dia hou hidadea dadawa: lalu, fa: no Gode Ea Debolo diasu amoga golila heda: ma. Dilia udigili mae masa, be dawa: lamusa: ne masa. Be gagaoui dunu ilia da udigili gobele salasu hou hamosa. Ilia da noga: le hame dawa: lai, habo da moloi amola habo da wadela: i.
2 Think carefully before you speak [MTY] or before you promise God that you will do something [IDM]. [Do not forget that] God is in heaven [and he is all-powerful] and you are here on the earth, so think carefully before you [make any promises to God].
Bisili dia asigi dawa: suga noga: le dadawa: lalu, fa: no di sia: ma. Amola Godema hawa: hamosu hamomusa: gini sia: afae udigiliwane maedafa ilegele sia: ma. Bai Gode da Hebene gado esala amola di da osoboga esala. Amaiba: le, Ema sia: udigiliwane mae sia: ma.
3 If you are continually thinking [and worrying] about things, you will have bad dreams about them and not rest [well]. And the more you talk, the more likely it will be that you will say things that are foolish.
Dia hou manebe amoma bagadewane da: i dione dadawa: sea, dia da simasia wadela: i ba: mu. Amola sia: sedade bagade ado dasea, dia da hedolowane gagaoui agoane sia: mu.
4 When you solemnly promise God that you will do something, do not be foolish by delaying in doing it, because God is not pleased with foolish people. Do [all] the things that you promise God that you will do.
Amaiba: le, di da Godema hawa: hamomusa: ilegele sia: sea, hedolowane dia sia: i defele hamoma. Bai E da gagaoui higasa. Be dia ilegei sia: i hedolo hamoma.
5 It is better to not promise [anything] than to promise to do something, and [then] not doing it.
Be hawa: hamomusa: ilegele sia: sea, amola amo hame hamomu da defea hame. Agoai galea, hamedafa ilegele sia: mu da defea galu.
6 Do not sin by promising to do something and then not doing it. And [when you promise God to do something and do not do it], do not say to God’s priest that it was a mistake for you to promise to do that. If you do that, God will certainly [RHQ] become very angry with you, and he will take from you everything that you [SYN] have worked to acquire.
Di da udigili sia: beba: le, wadela: i hou hamomu da defea hame. Di agoane hamobeba: le, Gode ea gobele salasu dunuma gogosiane fofada: sa: besa: le, udigili mae sia: ma. Di da abuliba: le Gode dima ougima: ne hamoma: bela: ? Dia udigili hamobeba: le, Gode da di wadela: lesimu da defea hame.
7 Promising to do something and not doing it is like [SIM] a dream that has no value; instead, revere God [by doing what you promised him that you would do].
Be di da bagadewane simasia ba: sea o udigili hawa: bagadewane hamosea o udigili bagadewane sia: dasea, huluane da hamedei liligi. Bai bagade da Godema fawane beda: mu da defea.
8 Do not be surprised if you see poor [people] being (oppressed/treated cruelly) [by powerful/influential people], or if you see judges making unjust decisions throughout the land. [That happens] because the people who do that are supervised [and cheated by] more important officials [DOU],
Di da eagene amo ilia da hame gagui dunu ilima banenesisa amola ilima moloidafa hou hame hamosa, amo ba: sea, mae fofogadigima. Ouligisu dunu afae afae da eno dunu gado amoga ouligisa. Amola ouligisu bagade da ilima ouligisa esala.
9 and even the king forces the people to give him some of the crops that they harvest.
Dunu huluane amola hina bagade amola, ilia muni amola labe da ha: i manu gamisu amoga fawane maha.
10 Everyone who tries to [get as much] money as they can will never think that they have enough. They will never be satisfied with the money that they have. That also is senseless.
Be di da muni hanai galea, di da hame sadimu amola hahawanedafa hame ba: mu. Muni bagade gagumu hanai galea, di da muni lale, eno lamusa: hanai ba: mu. Amo hou da hamedei, wadela: i.
11 The more money that we have, the more people want us to spend our money to buy things for them. So people who have a lot of money do not [RHQ] benefit from it; they see [MTY] it when they get it, but it soon (disappears/is completely spent).
Di da muni baligili lasea, dunu eno bagohame da dima ha: i manu lamusa: misunu. Amaiba: le, muni bagade lai da dia hou hame fidimu. Di da muni bagade gagui amo dawa: mu, be hou eno da hame fidimu.
12 Those who work hard sleep peacefully [at night], even if they do not have much food to eat. But rich [people] do not sleep well, because [they worry] about their money.
Hawa: hamosu dunu da muni bagade hame amola eso enoga ha: sa. Be e da hame da: i dioiba: le, hahawane golasa. Be bagade gagui dunu da ea gagui dawa: lalebeba: le, mae golale sidagane esalebe ba: sa.
13 I have seen [another] terrible thing that happens here on the earth [MTY]: People save [up all] their money and become rich, [but] they are not helped by saving a lot of money,
Na da hou noga: i hame osobo bagadega ba: sa. Dunu da ilila: hou hobea fidimusa: muni gagadosa.
14 [because] something happens that causes their money to be gone, and when they die, there is no money for their children to get/inherit.
Be eso afaega, ilia giadofale hou afae hamosea, ilia muni huluane ebelei dagoi ba: sea, ilia mano ilima imunu hamedei agoane ba: sa.
15 When we are born, we do not bring anything with us, and when we die, we take nothing with us from all that we have earned by our working hard.
Ninia da osobo bagadega hame gaguiwane doaga: i. Amo defele, ninia da bogosea, hame gaguiwane yolesimu. Ninia da gasa bagadewane hawa: hamosa. Be bogosea, ninia muni gagui amo gaguli masunu da hamedei.
16 That also seems senseless. People bring nothing [into the world when they are born], and they leave [this world] taking nothing with them. They have worked hard, but they receive no lasting benefit [MET].
Amo da moloi hame! Ninia misi defele ninia da masunu. Ninia da hawa: hamosa, ninia da fo amo loboga gagumusa: dawa: , be liligi hame laha.
17 [Furthermore, rich people] are always miserable [MET] and sad, and depressed/discouraged and often sick and (resentful/thinking that what has happened to them is unfair).
Ninia da gasi ganodini da: i dioiwane esala. Ninia da ougiwane amola se nabawane amola oloiwane esala.
18 So, the best thing for people to do here on the earth during the few years that God allows them to be alive is to eat and drink and to enjoy their work, because those are the things that God has given to them.
Na da amo hou ba: i dagoi. Mae dawa: le, ha: i manu amola waini manu amola dia gagui liligi amoga hahawane esalumu da defea. Bai Gode da dunumuni esalusu fawane ninima ia dagoi. Ninia osobo bagade dunu esalusu hou da amo fawane.
19 If people are rich and have a lot of possessions, and are able to (enjoy/be happy with) the things that they have and to enjoy their work, those things are [also] gifts from God.
Gode da dunu afae ema muni bagade amola soge amola diasu iasea, defea, e da nodone ea hamoi ea bidi amo hahawane lale hamomu da defea. Bai amo da Gode ea iasu.
20 Those people do not worry much about [everything that has happened] during the time that they have been alive, because God enables them to be happy doing everything that they do.
Gode da ema hahawane logo olelebeba: le, e da ea esalusu da dunumuni fawaneba: le, bagade hame da: i diomu.
