Mpitoriteny 8
1 Ia ty manahake i mahihitsey? Ia ty maharendreke ty ango’e? Mahaloeloe ty lahara’ ondaty ty hihitse, vaho mampiova ty hagàm-binta’e.
Who is as the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
2 Mañòk’ azo iraho hiambeñe ty taro’ i mpanjakay ty amy nifantà’o aman’ Añaharey.
I say, Keep the king's command, and that because of the oath of God.
3 Ko malisa mienga amy fañatrefañe azey; le ko mifahatse ami’ty raha raty, amy te anoe’e ze satrie’e.
Be not hasty to go out of his presence. Persist not in an evil matter, for he does whatever pleases him.
4 Aa kanao manandily ty saontsi’ i mpanjakay, ia ty hanao ama’e ty hoe: Ino o anoe’oo?
For the king's word has power, and who may say to him, What are thou doing?
5 Tsy ifetsahan-dilo ty mañamben-dily, amy te mahatsakore ty andro naho ty lily ty arofo mahihitse.
He who keeps a commandment shall know no evil thing. And a wise man's heart discerns the time and decision.
6 Kila manañe ty andro’e naho ty lili’e; ndra te mavesatse am’ ondatio ty haemberañe.
For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him.
7 Kanao tsy fohiñe ty ho avy; ia ty mahatalily aze te inoñe ty hifetsake.
For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?
8 Tsy a’ ondaty ty lily hanebañe ty fitiofa’ i tiokey; naho tsy anaña’e lily i androm-pikoromaha’ey; tsy eo ty famotsorañe amo alio; vaho tsy mahafipoliotse ami’ty haratiañe o mitoloñe ama’eo.
There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.
9 Fonga nitreako, naho nitoloñe’ ty troko ze hene fitoloñañe ambane’ i àndroy atoy; ie nanan-dily amy t’indaty t’indaty vaho nijoia’e.
All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
10 Nitreako ka ty fileveña’ o tsereheñeo, ie fa nimoake naho nienga i toetse miavakey, ie nandikofañe amy rova nanoeñe zaiy; hakoahañe ka izay.
So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.
11 Naho tsy andilova’ ty zaka aniany ty sata raty, le mañatsake ty tro’ o ana’ ondatio ty hanao raty;
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 aa ndra te mitolon-kanao raty in-jato ty mpanan-tahiñe, vaho mihamaro avao o andro’eo—mbe apotako te hanintsiñe o mañeveñe aman’ Añahareo, o miambane añatrefa’eo;
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.
13 fe po-panintsiñañe ty tsereheñe, naho tsy hihalava hoe talinjo o andro’eo, ami’ty tsy fañeveña’e aman’Añahare.
But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.
14 Eo ty hakafoahañe fanoeñe ambone’ ty tane toy; te eo ty mifetsak’ amo vaño ze mañeva ty sata’ o ratio; vaho eo te mizo i ratiy ty sazò’ ty fitoloña’ o vantañeo—hoe iraho: Hakoahañe ka zao.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked, again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.
15 Aa le nonjoneko ty haravoañe, amy te tsy ambane’ i àndroy etoy ty hahasoa ondaty ta te mikama naho minoñe vaho mifale, fa irezay ty ho mpipitek’ ama’e amy fitoloña’ey amo hene andro natolon’ Añahare aze hiveloma’e ambane’ i androio.
Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
16 Ie napoko an-troko ty handrèndreke hihitse, hahatreava’e o fitoloñañe fanoeñe an-tane atoio—ndra te eo ty tsy mirotse handro ndra haleñe o fihaino’eo,
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),
17 le hene nioniko o fitoloñan’ Añahareo, le tsapako te tsy lefe tsikaraheñe o fitoloñañe nanoeñe ambane’ i àndroio; ndra te imanea’ ondatio pay, tsy ho isa’e; vaho ndra te hanoe’ i mahihitsey ty hoe: “Fa fohiko!”, mbe lia’e tsy niisa’e.
then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he shall not be able to find it.
