Omubuulizi 8
1 Ani afaanana omuntu omugezi amanyi okunnyonnyola buli kintu? Amagezi gaakaayakanyisa obwenyi bw’omuntu, ne gakyusa emitaafu gyamu.
Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
2 Nkugamba nti gondera ekiragiro kya kabaka, kubanga walayira mu maaso ga Katonda.
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
3 Toyanguyiriza kuva mu maaso ga kabaka. Kyokka ensonga bw’ebanga etali ntuufu, tobanga ku ludda lumuwakanya, kubanga ye akola buli ky’ayagala.
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
4 Kubanga ekigambo kya kabaka kisukkuluma byonna; kale ani ayinza okumubuuza nti, “Okola ki ekyo?”
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
5 Oyo agondera ekiragiro kye talituukibwako kabi, omutima ogw’amagezi gulimanya ekiseera ekisaana okukoleramu ekintu gundi, n’engeri ey’okukolamu ekintu ekyo.
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
6 Kubanga waliwo ekiseera ekituufu n’enkola esaana ku buli kintu, newaakubadde ng’obuyinike bw’omuntu bumuzitoowerera okukamala.
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
7 Nga bwe watali muntu amanyi binaabaawo, kale ani ayinza okumutegeeza ebinajja?
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
8 Tewali muntu alina buyinza kufuga mpewo; bwe kityo tewali n’omu alina buyinza ku lunaku lwa kufa kwe. Ng’omuntu bw’aweebwa ebiragiro mu biseera eby’olutalo, bwe kityo n’obutali butuukirivu bwe buduumira abo ababutambuliramu.
No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
9 Ebyo byonna bye nalaba bwe nagezaako okwekenneenya buli kintu ekikolebwa wansi w’enjuba. Waliwo ekiseera omufuzi buli lw’abinika baafuga, kyokka nga yeerumya yekka.
All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
10 Ndabye abantu abakozi b’ebibi nga baziikibwa, abo abaawaanibwanga mu kibuga nga bazze mu kifo ekitukuvu. Na kino nakyo butaliimu.
And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
11 Omuntu bw’asalirwa omusango n’atabonererezebwawo, emitima gy’ababi gijjula kuteekateeka kukola bubi.
Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
12 Newaakubadde ng’omuntu omubi azza emisango kikumi, ate n’awangaala, nkimanyi ng’abatuukirivu, abo abatya Katonda bijja kubagendera bulungi.
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
13 Naye olwokubanga abakozi b’ebibi tebatya Katonda, tebiyinza kubagendera bulungi, era n’ennaku zaabwe zinaayitanga mangu ng’ekisiikirize.
But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
14 Waliwo ekintu ekirala ekiraga obutaliimu ekiri ku nsi: abantu abatuukirivu batukibwako ebyo ebisaanira ababi, ate abatali batuukirivu ne batuukibwako ebyo ebigwanira abatuukirivu. Kino nakyo nkiyita butaliimu.
There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
15 Bwe ntyo nteesa nti omuntu yeyagalire mu bulamu: kubanga wansi w’enjuba tewali kisinga, wabula omuntu okulya n’okunywa n’okweyagala. Kale essanyu linaamuwerekeranga mu mirimu gye, ennaku zonna ez’obulamu bwe Katonda bw’amuwadde wansi w’enjuba.
So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
16 Bwe nanoonyereza amagezi ne neetegereza okutegana kw’omuntu ku nsi kuno, nga teyeebaka emisana n’ekiro.
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
17 Ne ndaba ebyo byonna Katonda by’akoze, nga tewali n’omu ayinza kutegeera Katonda by’akola wansi w’enjuba, omuntu ne bw’agezaako ennyo okukinoonyereza tayinza kukivumbula. Newaakubadde omuntu omugezi yeefuula nti akimanyi, tayinza kukitegeera.
Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
