Ecclesiastes 6
1 I have seen something [else here] on this earth that troubles people.
Adda ti kinadakes a nakitak iti baba ti init, ket nakaro daytoy para kadagiti tattao.
2 God enables some people to get a lot of money and possessions and to be honored; they have everything [LIT] that they want. But God [sometimes] does not allow them to continue to enjoy those things. Someone else gets them and enjoys them. That seems senseless and unfair.
Mabalin nga ipaay ti Dios ti kinabaknang, sanikua ken dayaw iti maysa a tao tapno awan ti pagkurangan iti tartarigagayanna para iti bagina, ngem saan isuna nga ipaayan ti Dios iti kabaelan a mangragsak iti daytoy. Ngem ketdi, usaren ti sabali dagiti banag a kukuana. Kasla alingasaw daytoy, maysa a dakes a panagsagaba.
3 Someone might have 100 children and live for many years. But if he is not able to enjoy the things that he has acquired, and if he is not buried [properly after he dies], [I say that] a child that is dead when it is born is more fortunate.
No ti maysa a tao ket ama ti sangagasut nga annak ken agbiag iti adu a tawen, tapno umado dagiti aldaw dagiti tawenna, ngem no saan a mapnek ti pusona iti kinasayaat ken saan isuna a maitanem nga addaan iti dayaw, ket ibagak ngarud a nasaysayaat ti maysa a maladaga a naiyanak a natay ngem isuna.
4 That dead baby’s birth is meaningless; it does not even have a name. It goes directly to the place where there is only darkness.
Uray pay naiyanak ti maladaga nga awan mamaayna ken natay iti kasipngetan, ken agtalinaed a nakadulin ti naganna.
5 It does not [live to] see the sun or know anything. But it finds more rest than rich people do [who are alive].
Uray pay saan a makita daytoy nga ubing ti init wenno awan ti ammona, addaan daytoy ti inana idinto a dayta a tao ket awan.
6 Even if people could live for 2,000 years, if they do not enjoy the things that God gives to them, [it would have been better for them never to have been born]. [All people who live a long time] certainly [RHQ] all go to the same place— [to the grave].
Uray no agbiag ti tao iti dua ribu a tawen ngem saanna a masursuro ti agragsak kadagiti nasayaat a banbanag, mapan isuna iti isu met laeng a disso a kas iti dadduma.
7 People work hard to [earn enough money to buy] food to eat [MTY], but [often] they never get enough to eat.
Uray no amin a panagtrabaho ti tao ket tapno punnoenna ti ngiwatna, ngem saan a mapnek ti ganasna.
8 So it seems that [RHQ] wise people do not receive more lasting benefits than foolish people do. And it seems that [RHQ] poor people do not benefit from knowing how to conduct their lives.
Pudno unay, ania ti pangatiwan ti masirib a tao iti maag? Ania ti pagsayaatan ti tao a nakurapay uray no ammona ti agtignay iti sangoanan dagiti dadduma a tattao?
9 It is better to enjoy the things that we already have [MTY] than to constantly want more things; continually wanting more things is [senseless], [like] the wind.
Nasaysayaat iti mapnek iti makitkita ti mata ngem ti agtarigagay iti kalkalikaguman ti maiyaw-aw-awan a ganas, nga alingasaw met laeng ken panangpadas a mangipastor iti angin.
10 All the things that exist [on the earth] have been given names. And everyone knows what people are like, [so] it is useless to argue with someone (OR, with God) who is stronger than we are.
Aniaman nga immaddan ket naikkanen iti nagan, ken aniaman ti kaiyarigan ti sangkataoan ket nabayagen a naammoan. Isu a nagbalin nga awan ti serserbina ti makisinnuppiat iti mannakabalin nga ukom ti amin.
11 The more [that we] talk, the more [often we say things that are] senseless, so it certainly does not [RHQ] benefit us to talk a lot.
No ad-adu ti sao a maibalikas, ad-adu met ti maibalikas nga awan ti mamaayna, isu nga ania ngay ti pagsayaatanna dayta iti tao?
12 We live for only a short time; we disappear like [SIM] a shadow disappears [in the sunlight]. No one [RHQ] knows what is best for us while we are alive, and no one [RHQ] knows what will happen to us after we die [EUP].
Ta siasino ti makaammo no ania ti nasayaat para iti biag ti tao kabayatan ti kinaawan ti mamaayna, dagiti nabilang nga aldawna a paglablabasanna a kasla aniniwan? Siasino ti makaibaga iti tao no ania ti dumteng iti baba ti init kalpasan ti ipapatayna?
