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 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 Mañòk’ azo iraho hiambeñe ty taro’ i mpanjakay ty amy nifantà’o aman’ Añaharey.
I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for 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 quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
4 Aa kanao manandily ty saontsi’ i mpanjakay, ia ty hanao ama’e ty hoe: Ino o anoe’oo?
The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
5 Tsy ifetsahan-dilo ty mañamben-dily, amy te mahatsakore ty andro naho ty lily ty arofo mahihitse.
Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
6 Kila manañe ty andro’e naho ty lili’e; ndra te mavesatse am’ ondatio ty haemberañe.
For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
7 Kanao tsy fohiñe ty ho avy; ia ty mahatalily aze te inoñe ty hifetsake.
No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will 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.
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 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 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 Nitreako ka ty fileveña’ o tsereheñeo, ie fa nimoake naho nienga i toetse miavakey, ie nandikofañe amy rova nanoeñe zaiy; hakoahañe ka izay.
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 Naho tsy andilova’ ty zaka aniany ty sata raty, le mañatsake ty tro’ o ana’ ondatio ty hanao raty;
Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing 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 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 fe po-panintsiñañe ty tsereheñe, naho tsy hihalava hoe talinjo o andro’eo, ami’ty tsy fañeveña’e aman’Añahare.
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 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 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 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.
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 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 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 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 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.
