Mpitoriteny 5
1 Ambeno ty lia’o mb’añ’anjomban’ añahare mb’eo, harineo hijanjiñe’o, Hàmake izay ta te mañenga ty soro’ o seretseo, ie tsy apota’e te manao raty.
Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
2 Ko meke am-palie, naho ko malisa an-tro’o ty hisaontsy ndra inoñe aman’ Añahare: fa an-dindiñe ao t’i Andrianañahare, ihe an-tane atoy, aa le anò tsy ampeampe o enta’oo.
Be not rash with your mouth, and let not your heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and you on earth: therefore let your words be few.
3 Mahavy nofy ty fimaneam-pitoloñañe; fe fohiñe ami’ty hamaron-tsaontsi’e ty feo’ i gegey.
For a dream comes through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
4 Ihe mifanta aman’ Añahare, ko malaoñe hañavake; fa tsy ifalea’e ty dagola: ondroho i nifantà’oy.
When you vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools: pay that which you have vowed.
5 Hàmake t’ie tsy mifanta, ta te mifanta tsy mañavake.
Better is it that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
6 Ko metè’o hañakeo azo ty vava’o; le ko manao amy Irakey te nilosotse: fa ino ty hiviñeran’ Añahare amy feo’oy, handrotsaha’e o satan-taña’oo?
Suffer not your mouth to cause your flesh to sin; neither say you before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
7 Fa hakafoahañe ty halàko nofy naho ty hamaro saontsy: mone mañeveña aman’Añahare.
For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear you God.
8 Ie isa’o ty famorekekeañe o rarakeo, naho ty fampitavanan-jo naho hatò ampariparitse añe, ko ilatsa’o: fa jilove’ i mpifelek’ azey ty mpifehe vaho ambone ka ty bei’iareo.
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards; and there be higher than they.
9 Amy te itraofa’ iabikey ty tombo’ i taney: toe mitoroñe i mpanjakay i tetekey.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10 Tsy mahaeneñe ty mpitea-vola ty vola; vaho ty mpikoko firegoregoañe t’ie miegoego: hakafoahañe ka izay.
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11 Ie mitobake ty havokarañe, maro ka o mampibotsek’ azeo: aa le ino ty tombo’e ho a i tompo’ey ta te ho sambae’e am-pihaino avao?
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
12 Mamy ty firota’ ty mpifanehake, ndra te kede ty kamae’e ndra te bey: fe tsy apo’e hirotse ty havontsiña’ i mpañalealey.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13 Eo ty haratiañe manivontivoñe nitreako ambane’ i àndroy, te mijoy ty mpañefoefo o vara ahaja’eo.
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
14 Ie nikapaike i varay, amy te navaridì’e ami’ty tsy vara, le nahatoly ana-dahy f’ie an-tañam-polo.
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
15 Hambañe amy niboaha’e an-kovin-drene’ey, t’ie hiboridañe ka te himpoly, ndra loli’e tsy ho tintinem-pità’e amy fitromaha’ey.
As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
16 Haratiañe manivontivoñe ka izay, te manahake ty nitolia’e ty himpolia’e: aa le ino ty tombo’ ty fitromahañe hahazoañe tioke?
And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he that has labored for the wind?
17 Mikama añ’ieñe ao amo hene andro’eo, amy t’ie lako haemberañe naho hasilofañe vaho habosehañe.
All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
18 Ingo, ty nitreako ho soa naho mañeva aze, t’ie mikama naho mitohoke vaho hifale ami’ty hasoa’ i tolon-draha itoloña’e ambane’ i àndroy amo andro tsy ampeampe iaiña’eo, o natolon’ Añahare azeo: fa izay ty anjara’e.
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for it is his portion.
19 Naho ondaty nitoloran’ Añahare vara naho hanaña le nimea’e lily hikama naho handrambe anjara, vaho hirebek’ amy nifanehafa’ey; toe falalàn’ Añahare izay.
Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.
20 Le tsy beteke haereñere’e o andro iveloma’eo, amy t’ie ampitoloñen’ Añahare an-kafalean-troke.
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in the joy of his heart.
