Ecclesiastes 5
1 Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
Pathen im la na caeh vaengkah bangla na kho neh na khokan te ngaithuen. Te dongah hnatun hamla n'tawn uh he aka ang kah hmueih nawn lakah then. Amih loh boethae a saii te khaw ming uh pawh.
2 Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
Pathen mikhmuh ah ol aka thak la na ka te let sak boel lamtah na lungbuei loe boel saeh. Pathen tah vaan ah om tih nang tah diklai ah ni na om. Te dongah na ol yol saeh.
3 For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
Bibi a cungkuem vaengah mueimang khaw om tih olka a cungkuem vaengah hlang ang ol la poeh.
4 When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
Pathen taengah olcaeng na caeng vaengah na thuung ham uelh boeh. Na caeng bangla a thuung te aka ang kah kongaih moenih.
5 It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
Na caeng tih na thuung pawt lakah na caeng pawt te then.
6 Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
Na pumsa te tholh sak hamla na ka te khueh boeh. Tohtamaeh kah te puencawn mikhmuh ah thui boeh. Na ol dongah balae tih Pathen thin a toek? Te dongah na kut dongkah bibi te a phae.
7 For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words; but you must fear God.
Mueimang a yet vaengah a honghi neh ol khaw yet. Te dongah Pathen te rhih laeh.
8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter, for one official is eyed by a higher one, and there are officials over them.
Paeng ah khodaeng hnaemtaeknah khaw, tiktamnah neh duengnah lamloh pitnah na hmuh. Te te ngaihnah dongah khaw na ngaihmang sak boeh. A sang soah a sang la a dawn tih amih lakah sang lah ko.
9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
Amah khohmuen aka tawn manghai loh a cungkuem dongah khohmuen kah rhoeikhangnah te amah la a dang.
10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
Tangka aka lungnah khaw tangka hah pawt tih boeinah aka lungnah te khaw a vueithaih a dang moenih. He khaw a honghi mai ni.
11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
Hnothen a ping ham vaengah te te aka ca rhoek khaw pungtai uh. Te dongah a kungmah te tah a mik loh danyoe sawthong phoeiah tah balae a thoemthainah voel.
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
Aka thotat tah a yol akhaw, a yet a caak akhaw a ih tui. Tedae hlanglen kah khobuh long tah amah te ih sak ham pataeng duem sak pawh.
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Boethae a om he khomik hmuiah a tloh la ka hmuh. Khuehtawn he a kungmah loh a ngaithuen akhaw amah yoethaenah ham ni.
14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Khuehtawn he bibi thae ah a paltham mai. Te dongah capa a sak akhaw a kut dongah pakhat pataeng a om moenih.
15 As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
A manu bung lamloh pumtling ha thoeng tih a caeh vaengah khaw a thoeng vaengkah banglam ni a mael. A thakthaenah lamkah te pakhat pataeng a kut dongah a khuen hamla a phueih moenih.
16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labours for the wind?
Ha thoeng vaengkah bangla voeivang a caeh he khaw boeih thae tih tlo bal. Te dongah khohli hamla a thakthae he anih ham balae a rhoeikhangnah.
17 All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
Amah tue khuiah khaw hmaisuep ah a caak tih a tlohtat neh a thinhul ah muep hue a sak.
18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour, in which he labours under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
Sakthen la caak ham neh ok ham khaw, hnothen a hmuh ham khaw a then la ka hmuh coeng ne. Khomik hmui kah a hingnah khohnin tarhing la a thakthaenah cungkuem neh thakthae. A hingnah te Pathen loh anih taengah amah kah hamsum la a paek.
19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour—this is the gift of God.
Pathen loh hlang boeih te a taengkah khuehtawn neh koeva a paek pai. Te dongah te lamloh a caak ham neh a hamsum a duen ham khaw, a thakthaenah khui lamloh kohoe sak ham khaw a taemrhai. He tah Pathen kah kutdoe rhoe ni.
20 For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life, because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
Pathen loh kohoenah neh a lungbuei a phaep pah dongah a hingnah khohnin te puet poek pawh.
