Mpitoriteny 3
1 Songa namantañañe ty sa’e, Sindre namotoañañ’ andro ze nisatrie’e ambanen-dikerañe atoa:
All things have their time, and all things under heaven continue during their interval.
2 androm-pisamahañe, androm-pihomahañe, androm-pamboleañe naho androm-pañombotañe i namboleñey;
A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to pull up what was planted.
3 androm-pamonoañe, naho androm-pañamelañañe; androm-pandrebahañe mañambane naho androm-pandranjiañe mañambone;
A time to kill, and a time to heal. A time to tear down, and a time to build up.
4 androm-pirovetañe, naho androm-piankahafañe; androm-pangololoihañe naho androm-pitsinjahañe;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
5 androm-pañiririñam-bato, naho androm-panontonam-bato; androm-pamejañañe naho androm-pifoneñañe tsy hamejañe;
A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather. A time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces.
6 androm-pikodebeañe, naho androm-pahamotsoañe; androm-pañajañe naho androm-pañariañe;
A time to gain, and a time to lose. A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
7 androm-pandrovitañe, naho androm-panjairañe; androm-pianjiñañe, naho androm-pisaontsiañe;
A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to be silent, and a time to speak.
8 androm-pikokoañe naho androm-pihejeañe; androm-pialiañe vaho androm-panintsiñañe.
A time of love, and a time of hatred. A time of war, and a time of peace.
9 Ino ty tambem-pieke amy nitromaha’ey?
What more does a man have from his labor?
10 Fa nitreako ty tolon-draha’ natolon’ Añahare amo ana’ ondatio, hitoloñañe.
I have seen the affliction that God has given to the sons of men, in order that they may be occupied by it.
11 Kila nanoe’e mañeva ty sa’e; vaho napo’e an-tro’e ao ty atao nainai’e donia, fe tsy ho taka’ ondaty ty fitsikarahañe ty satan’ Añahare boak’ am-baloha’e pak’am-pigadoña’e.
He has made all things good in their time, and he has handed over the world to their disputes, so that man may not discover the work which God made from the beginning, even until the end.
12 Apotako te tsy eo ty mahasoa ta t’ie hifale naho hinembanembañe naho mbe amañ’aiñe;
And I realize that there is nothing better than to rejoice, and to do well in this life.
13 mbore falalàn’ Añahare te songa hikama naho hinoñe vaho hifale amo fitoloña’eo ondatio.
For this is a gift from God: when each man eats and drinks, and sees the good results of his labor.
14 Fantako te tsy modo nainai’e ze anoen’ Añahare; tsy mete tompeañe vaho tsy mete angalañe; nanoen’Añahare zao, hañeveña’ ondatio añatrefa’e eo.
I have learned that all the works which God has made continue on, in perpetuity. We are not able to add anything, nor to take anything away, from those things which God has made in order that he may be feared.
15 Ze eo, le fa teo; naho mbe ho avy ze fa teo; vaho tsoehen’Añahare o horidañeñeo.
What has been made, the same continues. What is in the future, has already existed. And God restores what has passed away.
16 Mbore nizoeko ambane’ i àndroy, amy toem-pizakañey te eo ka ty haratiañe, vaho amy toen-kavantañañey ty haloloañe.
I saw under the sun: instead of judgment, impiety, and instead of justice, iniquity.
17 Hoe iraho an-troko ao, ho zakaen’ Añahare ty vañoñe naho ty raty, fa kila namotoaña’e ze safiry naho ze hene fitoloñañe.
And I said in my heart: “God will judge the just and the impious, and then the time for each matter shall be.”
18 Hoe iraho an-troko ao ty amo ana’ondatio: Mitsoke iareo t’i Andrianañahare hahaoniña’ iareo te biby avao.
I said in my heart, about the sons of men, that God would test them, and reveal them to be like wild animals.
19 Hambañe ty toli’ondaty naho ty toli’ o bibio; Manahake ty fihomaha’ ty raike ty hiantantirira’ ty ila’e. Hambañe avao ty fikofò’ iareo, aa le tsy aman-tombo’e amo bibio t’indaty; toe fonga hakoahañe.
For this reason, the passing away of man and of beasts is one, and the condition of both is equal. For as a man dies, so also do they die. All things breathe similarly, and man has nothing more than beast; for all these are subject to vanity.
20 Fonga homb’an-toetse raike: sindre boak’an-debok’ ao vaho songa mibalike mb’an-debok’ ao.
And all things continue on to one place; for from the earth they were made, and unto the earth they shall return together.
21 Ia ty mahafohiñe ke hañambone ty arofo’ ondaty he hañambane mb’an-tane ao ty tro’ o bibio?
Who knows if the spirit of the sons of Adam ascend upward, and if the spirit of the beasts descend downward?
22 Aa le nitreako te tsy eo ty mahasoa ta te hene mifale amo fitoloña’eo ondatio, ie tambe’ iareo; fa ia ty hampandrendrek’ aze te inoñe ty hanonjohy añe?
And I have discovered nothing to be better than for a man to rejoice in his work: for this is his portion. And who shall add to him, so that he may know the things that will occur after him?
