Ecclesiastes 5
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Go near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not understand that they are doing what is wrong.
Ritri ka idhi e od Nyasaye. Dhi machiegni mondo ichik iti moloyo chiwo misengini ma joma ofuwo chiwo, jogo ma ok ongʼeyo ni gitimo marach.
2 Do not be too quick to speak with your mouth, and do not let your heart be too quick to bring any matter up before God. God is in heaven, but you are on earth, so let your words be few.
Kik dhogi bed mayot kata kik irikni e chunyi kiwacho, wach moro amora e nyim Nyasaye. Nyasaye ni e polo to in to in e piny, omiyo wechegi onego bed manok.
3 If you have too many things to do and worry about, you will probably have bad dreams. The more words you speak, the more foolish things you will probably say.
Kaka lek biro ka nitie paro mathoth, e kaka weche mar ngʼama ofuwo bedo nikech weche mangʼeny.
4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay to do it, for God has no pleasure in fools. Do what you vow you will do.
Ka isingori e nyim Nyasaye, to kik ideki mar timo kamano. Ok omor gi joma ofuwo; omiyo chop singruokni.
5 It is better not to make a vow than to make one that you do not carry out.
Ber mondo kik isingri, moloyo singori, bangʼe ok ichopo singoni.
6 Do not allow your mouth to cause your flesh to sin. Do not say to the priest's messenger, “That vow was a mistake.” Why make God angry by vowing falsely, provoking God to destroy the work of your hands?
Kik iwe wecheni iwuon teri e richo, nono to ibiro ywagori e nyim jadolo mar hekalu niya, “Singruok mane atimo kakwongʼora ne ok en adier. Angʼo ma dimi Nyasaye bed kodi gi mirima kuom gik misewacho mi oketh tich lweti?
7 For in many dreams, as in many words, there is meaningless vapor. So fear God.
Lek mathoth kod weche mangʼeny duto onge tiendgi. Kuom mano chungʼ motegno kiluoro Nyasaye.”
8 When you see the poor being oppressed and robbed of just and right treatment in your province, do not be astonished as if no one knows, because there are people in power who watch those under them, and there are even higher ones over them.
Ka ineno ka joma odhier isando e gwengʼ moro, kata ok ngʼad buchgi gadiera kod ratiro, to kik gik ma kamago bwogi; nimar jatelo ka jatelo nigi ngʼama duongʼne kendo kargi ji ariyogi gin gi ngʼama otelonegi.
9 In addition, the produce of the land is for everyone, and the king himself takes produce from the fields.
Nyak mar piny itiyogo gi ji duto; ruoth bende yudo ohala e nyak mar puothego.
10 Anyone who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, and anyone who loves wealth always wants more. This, too, is vapor.
Ngʼat mohero pesa ok bed gi pesa morome; kendo ngʼat mohero mwandu, mwandu moyudo ok rome. Ma bende onge tiende.
11 As prosperity increases, so also do the people who consume it. What advantage in wealth is there to the owner except to watch it with his eyes?
Kaka mwanduni medore, e kaka joma tiyo kodgi medore. In to ohala miyudo en ngʼeyo mana ni in jamoko?
12 The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats little or a lot, but the wealth of a rich person does not allow him to sleep well.
Jachan nindo mamuol, kata ka ochiemo matin kata ka ochiemo mathoth, to jo-mwandu parore ma ok nyal nindo.
13 There is an evil that I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by the owner, resulting in his own misery.
Gima lit maseneno katimore e piny en ni mwandu mopandi inyo mana wuon,
14 When the rich man loses his wealth through bad luck, his own son, one whom he has fathered, is left with nothing in his hands.
kata mwandu molal nikech chandruok moro, maonge gima ginyalo weyo ni nyithindgi ndalo mabiro.
15 As a man comes from his mother's womb, so also he will leave naked. He can take none of the fruits of his labor in his hand.
Mana kaka dhano wuok ei min-gi ka en duk, e kaka obiro dok. Onge gino moago kuom tichne matek monyalo tingʼo e lwete.
16 Another evil is that as a person comes, so he goes away. So what profit is there for him who works for the wind?
Gima lit ahinya machielo en: Kaka dhano nobiro e pinyni, e kaka obiro wuok e pinyni, koro ere ohala moyudo, kuom tichne matek konyagore mana ne yamo?
17 During his days he eats with darkness and is greatly distressed with sickness and anger.
Ndalone duto ochiemo e mudho, ka en gi chandruok malich, rem kod mirima.
18 Look, what I have seen to be good and suitable is to eat and drink and to enjoy the gain from all our work, as we labor under the sun during the days of this life that God has given us. For this is man's assignment.
Eka ne afwenyo ni ber kendo longʼo mondo dhano ochiem kendo omethi, kendo mondo oyud mor e tichne matek motimo e bwo wangʼ chiengʼ e kinde matin mar ngimane ma Nyasaye osemiye, nimar mano e pokne kende.
19 Anyone to whom God has given riches and wealth and the ability to receive his share and rejoice in his work—this is a gift from God.
Kata kamano, ka Nyasaye omiyo ngʼato mwandu gi ngima maber, kendo oyiene mondo ocham gigo to onego obed mamor kochamogi, nimar mano en mich ma Nyasaye ema chiwo.
20 For he does not call to mind very often the days of his life, because God makes him keep busy with the things that he enjoys doing.
Ok onyal bedo gi thuolo mar nono kit ngimane e ndalo mosekadho, nikech Nyasaye okete modich gi mor mathoth e chunye.
