Mpitoriteny 8
1 Iza no toy ny hendry? Ary iza no mahalala izay anton-javatra? Ny fahendren’ ny olona mahamiramirana ny tarehiny, ary voaova ny fahadontoan’ ny endriny.
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 Hoy izaho: Tandremo ny didin’ ny mpanjaka noho ny efa nianianana tamin’ Andriamanitra.
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
3 Aza malaky miala eo anatrehany; aza mikikitra amin’ ny fanaovan-dratsy; fa na inona na inona sitrany dia azony atao avokoa;
Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
4 fa ny tenin’ ny mpanjaka dia misy hery, ka iza no mahazo manao aminy hoe: Inona no ataonao?
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
5 Izay mitandrina ny didy tsy mba mikambana amin’ ny fanaovan-dratsy; ary ny fon’ ny hendry dia mahalala fotoana sy fitsarana;
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
6 fa samy manana ny fotoany sy ny fitsarana azy avy ny hevitra rehetra, satria efa be ny heloky ny olona.
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
7 Fa tsy mahafantatra izay ho avy izy; fa iza no hampahafantatra azy izay hihaviany?
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
8 Tsy misy olona manan-kery hahatana ny ainy, na manan-kery ny amin’ ny andro hahafatesana; ary tsy misy fahafahana amin’ ny ady, ary ny ratsy fanahy tsy ho voavonjin’ ny faharatsiany.
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 Izany rehetra izany dia efa hitako avokoa tamin’ ny nampiasako ny foko nandinika ny asa rehetra atao atỳ ambanin’ ny masoandro. Misy andro anapahan’ ny olona ny namany ka ampidirany loza aminy.
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 Ary tamin’ izany dia hitako ny ratsy fanahy nalevina ka tafiditra; fa izay nanao ny marina kosa dia lasa niala tamin’ ny fitoeran’ ny masìna ka nohadinoina tao an-tanàna; zava-poana koa izany.
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 Saingy tsy tanterahina vetivety ny famaliana ny ratsy atao, dia izany no ikirizan’ ny fon’ ny zanak’ olombelona amin’ ny fanaovan-dratsy.
Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
12 Eny, fa na dia manao ratsy injato aza ny mpanota ka ela velona ihany, dia fantatro kosa fa hisy soa ho an’ izay matahotra an’ Andriamanitra, dia izay matahotra eo anatrehany.
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 Fa tsy hisy soa ho an’ ny ratsy fanahy; fa ho toy ny aloka izy ka tsy haharitra ela, satria tsy matahotra eo anatrehan’ Andriamanitra.
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 Izao koa no zava-poana izay atao atỳ ambonin’ ny tany: Misy olo-marina iharan’ izay tokony ho valin’ ny asa ratsy; ary misy olo-meloka mahazo izay tokony ho valin’ ny asa marina; hoy izaho: Zava-poana koa izany.
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 Dia noderaiko ny fifaliana, satria tsy misy mahasoa ny olona atỳ ambanin’ ny masoandro afa-tsy ny mihinana sy ny misotro ary ny miravoravo, ka hisy izany amin’ ny fisasarany mandritra ny andro hiainany, izay nomen’ Andriamanitra azy atỳ ambanin’ ny masoandro.
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 Raha nampiasaiko ny foko hahalala fahendrena sy hahita ny raharaha atao atỳ ambonin’ ny tany (fa misy tsy mahita torimaso na andro na alina),
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 dia hitako avokoa ny asan’ Andriamanitra, fa tsy takatry ny sain’ ny olona ny asa atao atỳ ambanin’ ny masoandro; koa na dia mikely aina hitady izany aza ny olona, tsy ho hitany; eny, na ny hendry aza no manao hahafantatra izany, dia tsy ho azony fantarina akory.
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.
