Ecclesiastes 1
1 [I am Solomon], the son of [King] David. [I rule] in Jerusalem [and people call me] ‘The (Preacher/Religious Teacher)’.
Dagitoy dagiti sasao ti Manursuro, ti kaputotan ni David ken ari iti Jerusalem.
2 I say that everything is mysterious; everything is hard for me to understand; it is difficult to understand why everything happens.
Ibagbaga ti Manursuro daytoy. “Kas iti alingasaw ti angep, kas iti pul-oy ti angin, mapukaw dagiti amin a banbanag, nga agibati iti adu a saludsod.
3 (What do people gain from all the work that they do here on the earth?/It seems that people gain no lasting benefit from all the work that they do here on the earth.) [RHQ]
Ania ti gungguna a magun-od ti sangkataoan manipud kadagiti amin a trabaho a pagbanbanoganda iti baba ti init?
4 [Each year] old people die and babies are born, but the earth never changes.
Lumabas ti maysa a henerasion, ket umay ti sabali a henerasion, ngem agtalinaed ti daga iti agnanayon.
5 [Each morning] the sun rises, and [each evening] it sets, and [then] it hurries around to where it started from.
Agsingising ti init ken lumnek daytoy ket dagus nga agsubli manen iti lugar a pagsingsingisinganna.
6 The wind blows south, and then it [turns around to start blowing towards] the north. It goes around and around in circles.
Agpul-oy ti angin a paabagatan ken agrikus nga agpaamianan, agrikrikus a kankanayon iti dalanna ket agsubsubli manen.
7 All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is never full. The water returns [to the sky], and [when it rains], the water returns to the rivers, and it flows again to the sea.
Agay-ayus amin dagiti karayan iti baybay, ngem saan pulos a mapunno ti baybay. Iti lugar a pagturturungan dagiti karayan, sadiay manen ti papananda.
8 Everything is boring, [with the result that] we do not even want to talk about it. We [SYN] see things, but we always want to see more. We [SYN] hear things, but we always want to hear more.
Makabannog amin a banbanag, ket awan ti siasinoman a makailawlawag iti daytoy. Saan a mapnek ti mata kadagiti makitkitana wenno mapno ti lapayag kadagiti mangmangngegna.
9 [Everything continues to be the same as it has always been]; things that happen have happened previously, and they will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing [really] new in this world [MTY].
Aniaman dagiti napalabas ket isunto ti mapasamak ken aniaman dagiti naaramiden ket isunto ti maaramid. Awan iti barbaro iti baba ti init.
10 Sometimes people say, “Look at this! This is something new [RHQ]!” But it has existed previously; it existed before we were born.
Adda kadi iti aniaman a mabalin a maibaga, 'Kitaem, barbaro daytoy'? Aniaman nga adda ket addan iti nabayagen a panawen, kabayatan dagiti tawtawen a nabayagen a napalabas sakbay kadatayo.
11 [People] do not remember the things [that happened] long ago, and in the future, people will not remember what we are doing now.
Kasla awan ti makalagip kadagiti banbanag a napasamak idi un-unana a tiempo. Ken dagiti banbanag a naud-udi a napasamak ken dagiti mapasamakto iti masakbayan ket saanto met laeng siguro a malagip.”
12 I, the Religious Teacher, have been the king of Israel [for many years, ruling] in Jerusalem.
Siak ti Manursuro, ket nagturayak a kas ari iti Israel idiay Jerusalem.
13 By being wise, I concentrated on understanding everything that was being done on the earth [MTY]. [But I found out that] God causes [all of] us to experience things that cause us to be unhappy/miserable.
Inusarko ti panunotko a mangadal ken mangsukimat babaen iti kinasirib dagiti amin a banbanag a maar-aramid iti baba ti langit. Dayta a panagsukimat ket makabannog a trabaho nga inted ti Dios kadagiti annak dagiti tattao a pakakumikomanda.
14 It seems that nothing that happens on the earth really enables us to do anything useful. It is [like] [MET] chasing the wind.
Nakitak amin dagiti aramid a maar-aramid iti baba ti init ket kitaenyo, maiyarigda amin iti alingasaw ken panangpadas a mangpastor iti angin.
15 [Many] things that are crooked cannot be caused to become straight; we cannot count things that do not exist.
Saan a mailinteg ti killo! Saan a mabilang dagiti mapukpukaw!
16 I said to myself, “[Hey], I am wiser than any of the kings that ruled in Jerusalem before I [became the king]. I am wiser and I know more than any of them!”
Nagsaoak iti pusok, a kunak, “Kitaem, nakagun-odak iti ad-adu a kinasirib ngem kadagiti amin nga immun-una ngem siak ditoy Jerusalem. Nakakitan ti panunotko iti adu a kinasirib ken pannakaammo.”
17 [So] I determined to learn [more] about being wise and to learn about knowing about many things, and [also] to learn about [doing things that are] very foolish [DOU]. [But] I found out that trying to understand those things was also [useless, like] chasing the wind.
Isu nga inusarko ti pusok tapno maammoak ti kinasirib ken kasta met ti kinamauyong ken kinamaag. Naawatak a daytoy ket panangpadas met laeng a mangpastor iti angin.
18 The wiser I became, the more disappointed I became. The more things I knew about, the sadder I became.
Ta iti kinawadwad iti kinasirib, ad-adda iti pannakaupay, ken ti tao a manaynayunan ti pannakaammona, ad-adda ti panagladingit.
