Ecclesiastes 6
1 I have seen something [else here] on this earth that troubles people.
Eo ty haratiañe nitreako ambane’ i àndroy, toe mandrambañe am’ondatio,
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.
eo t’indaty nitoloran’ Añahare drala naho vara vaho asiñe, ie tsy po-draha irien-troke, fe tsy nitoloran’ Añahare ty haozarañe hahafikama’e, te mone hane’ ty ambahiny; hakafoahañe izay vaho areten-draty.
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.
Ndra te misamak’ anake zato indatiy, naho maro taoñe ty iaiña’e, ndra firefire, fe tsy enen-kasoa ty tro’e, naho tsy eo ty handeveñe aze, le hàmake t’ie niboloañe,
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.
ho koake ty fiavi’e naho himoromoroñe ty fiengà’e, vaho ho kolopofe’ ty ieñe i tahina’ey;
5 It does not [live to] see the sun or know anything. But it finds more rest than rich people do [who are alive].
le lia’e tsy ho isa’e i àndroy vaho hamoea’e; f’ie ty mitofa soa ta i raikey;
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].
eka ndra te indroe veloñe arivo taoñe i raikey, ie tsy nanjo hasoa; tsy kila hikovovoke mb’an-toetse raike mb’eo hao?
7 People work hard to [earn enough money to buy] food to eat [MTY], but [often] they never get enough to eat.
Hene ho am-palie’e avao ty fitoloña’ ondaty, te tsy eneñe i hatea-hane’ey.
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.
Aa inoñe ty mahazòke’ ty dagola i mahihitse? ino ty fitombo’ i rarakey, t’ie mahafitsontike añatrefa’ o veloñeo?
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.
Hamake ty onim-pihaino, te ami’ty fisalalan-troke; hakafoahañe ka izay vaho fimanean-tioke.
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.
Ze hene eo le fa nitolorañe añarañe, le fa arofoanañe te inoñe ondatio, vaho tsy aze ty hifandietse amy maozatse te ama’ey.
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.
Maro ty raha manovoñe o hakoahañeo, aa le ino ty tombo’e ho a ondatio?
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].
Ia ty mahafohiñe ze mahasoa ondatio ami’ty havelo’e, amo taoñe tsy ampeampe iveloma’e hoe evoñeo, ie mihelañe hoe talinjo avao? Fa ia ty hahatalily am’ondatio ty hanonjohy aze, ambane’ i àndroy?
