Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who [is] as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Chihna neihi iti kidan hitam, thil ho geltohna neija chule ipi kiseina ahi phongdoh chihna hin, mihem amai avahsah in lungkhohna asunem theije.
2 I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God.
Nangman Pathen thua nung dinga nakitepna dung jui chun lengpa thu thun nung in.
3 Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth.
Natoh ding kin bollou ding in kigo hih in, chule lungthim phalou gongho tojong pan lakhom hih beh-in, ajeh chu lengpan abolnom nom abolthei ahije.
4 Where the word of a king [is] power [is], and who saith to him, 'What dost thou?'
Athupeh chu thaneina in ajuijin, koima ananjou dingleh ipi dinga hitia nabol ham tia seithei ding aum poi.
5 Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth.
Athua nungho chun talen man pouvinte. Miching ho chun adih bolna ding phat ahaimil pouvin chule abolje ahet tei ding’u ahi.
6 For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him.
Ajeh chu thil ijakai bolna ding phat le bolje hetna phat mikhat chun hahsatna ato teng jongleh amuji ahi.
7 For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him?
Ahimong in, ipi hunglhung ding ahi hephalou mipi chun iti hichu apel thei diu hitam?
8 There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.
I-lah’uva ithi diu nikho atuhtang thei ium pouve. Hiche muthim galsatna, ito diu hi ahoidohna ding aum poi.
9 All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.
Hiche nipi noija che jinga, chal jinga um miho chun khat le khat kisuh khah tona aneiyu hi lunggil tah in kangaiton ahi.
10 And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also [is] vanity.
Keiman migilou ho jabol tah’a akivui kamui. Hinlah amaho hi houin sunga chu kijomtah’a athilbol phalouvu umna mun ma’a chun jabolna achanguve! Hiche jong hi ajeh bei tobangbep ahi kit’e.
11 Because sentence hath not been done [on] an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.
Asukhel chu gimbolna akipeh paiji louva ahileh, miho chun thilse bol ding in ahung kitil khou doh jiuvin ahi.
12 Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred [times], and prolonging [himself] for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
Hinlah mikhat chun chonset javei jen bol hen lang chule sotpi hing nalai henlang hijongleh, Pathen gingho dingin aphajo cheh ahiti, keiman kahei.
13 And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
Migilouho chu lolhing lou diu ahi, ajeh chu amahon Pathen ginna anei pouve. Nilhah lam lim tobangbep’in ahinkhou sotponte.
14 There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also [is] vanity.
Chule hiche hi i-chen nau vannoi leisetna ajehbeija ahideh poi. Hiche lei hinkhoa hin miphaho jong chu migilouho bolla akibol kom aum jiuvin, chule migilouho hi miphatah bolla akibol nau jong aumjie. Hiche jong hi ajehbei tobangbep chu ahi.
15 And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun.
Hiti chun keiman nuijat’umna chu ka phatsah’in ahi, ajeh chu mihon aneh uva, adon uva chule hinkho akipa thanoppi diu hi kaphat sahpeh ahi. Hitia chu Pathen’in amaho chu nipi noija ana tohgim nauva kon kipana khat anei theina diu ahi.
16 When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
Keiman chihna kaholna’a hin, chule hiche vannoi leiset chunga miho pohgih poh kavet jingna’a hin, keiman kakholdoh chu sunle janna kichol tih um louva kho-sahna ka mudoh in ahi.
17 then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
Keiman kahetdoh chu mihem koimachan Pathen’in nipi noija anatohdoh chu akholdoh joulou ding ahi, tihi ahi. Mihem koima chan ipi seijong leh miching penho jengin jong ijakai akholdoh joulou diu ahi.
