उपदेशक 3
1 हरेक कुराको लागि तोकिएको समय छ, र आकाशमूनि हरेक उद्धेश्यको लागि बेलाछ ।
To all things there is a time, and a season for every matter under heaven.
2 जन्मने एउटा समय छ, र मर्ने एउटा समय । रोप्ने एउटा समय छ, र उखेल्ने एउटा समय ।
A time of birth, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what has been planted;
3 मार्ने एउटा समय छ, र निको पार्ने एउटा समय । भत्काउने एउटा समय छ, र बनाउने एउटा समय ।
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to pull down, and a time to build up;
4 रुने एउटा समय छ, र हाँस्ने एउटा समय । शोक गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र नाच्ने एउटा समय ।
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to lament, and a time to dance;
5 ढुङ्गा फ्याँक्ने एउटा समय छ, र ती बटुल्ने एउटा समय । अरू मानिसलाई अङ्गाल्ने एउटा समय छ, र त्यसबाट अलग रहने एउटा समय ।
a time to throw stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to abstain from embracing;
6 खोजी गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र खोज्न छाड्ने एउटा समय । राख्ने एउटा समय छ, र फाल्ने एउटा समय ।
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7 लुगा च्यात्ने एउटा समय छ, र त्यसलाई मर्मत गर्ने एउटा समय । चुप लाग्ने एउटा समय छ, र बोल्ने एउटा समय ।
a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak;
8 प्रेम गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र घृणा गर्ने एउटा समय । युद्ध गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र मिलाप गर्ने एउटा समय ।
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
9 कामदारले आफ्नो परिश्रमबाट के लाभ पाउँछ र?
What advantage [has] he that works in those things wherein he labours?
10 मानव-जातिलाई पुरा गर्न परमेश्वरले दिनुभएको काम मैले देखेको छु ।
I have seen all the trouble, which God has given to the sons of men to be troubled with.
11 परमेश्वरले हरेक कुरोलाई त्यसको आफ्नो समयमा सुयोग्य बनाउनुभएको छ । उहाँले मानिसहरूका हृदयमा अनन्तता पनि राखिदिनुभएको छ । तर मानव-जातिले सुरुदेखि अन्त्यसम्म परमेश्वरले गर्नुभएका कामहरू बुझ्न सक्दैन ।
All the things which he has made are beautiful in his time: he has also set the whole world in their heart, that man might not find out the work which God has wrought from the beginning even to the end.
12 मानिस बाँचुञ्जेलसम्म त्यो आनन्दित रहनु र असल गर्नुभन्दा त्यसको लागि अर्को कुनै उत्तम कुरो छैन भनी मलाई थाहा छ ।
I know that there is no good in them, except [for a man] to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
13 हरेकले खानुपर्छ र पिउनुपर्छ, अनि आफ्ना सबै कामबाट आउने असल कुराहरूमा कसरी आनन्द मनाउने भनी बुझ्नुपर्छ । यो नै परमेश्वरको उपहार हो ।
Also [in the case of] every man who shall eat and drink, and see good in all his labour, [this] is a gift of God.
14 मलाई थाहा छ, कि परमेश्वरले जे गर्नुहुन्छ, त्यो रहिरहन्छ । त्यसमा केही थप्न सकिँदैन, न त त्यसबाट हटाउन सकिन्छ, किनकि परमेश्वरले नै त्यो गर्नुभएको हो ताकि मानिसहरू आदरसाथ उहाँकहाँ जाऊन् ।
I know that whatsoever things God has done, they shall be for ever: it is impossible to add to it, and it is impossible to take away from it: and God has done [it], that [men] may fear before him.
15 जे अस्तित्वमा छ, त्यो पहिलेदेखि नै अस्तित्वमा रहेको छ । जे अस्तित्वमा रहने छ, त्यो पहिलेदेखि नै अस्तित्वमा रहेको छ । लुकिएका कुराहरूको खोजी गर्न परमेश्वरले मानिसहरूलाई बनाउनुहुन्छ ।
That which has been is now; and whatever things [are appointed] to be have already been; and God will seek out that which is past.
16 सूर्यमूनिको दुष्टतालाई मैले देखेको छु, जहाँ न्याय हुनुपर्थ्यो, र धार्मिकताको सट्टामा दुष्टता थियो ।
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there was the ungodly one; and the place of righteousness, there was the godly one.
17 मैले मेरो मनमा भनेँ, “हरेक विषय र हरेक कामको लागि ठिक समयमा परमेश्वरले धर्मीहरू र दुष्टहरूको न्याय गर्नुहुने छ ।”
And I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the ungodly: for there is a time there for every action and for every work.
18 मैले मेरो हृदयमा भनेँ, “मानिसहरू पशुहरूजस्तै हुन् भनी देखाउन परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूको जाँच गर्नुहुन्छ ।”
I said in my heart, concerning the speech of the sons of man, God will judge them, and that to shew that they are breasts.
19 किनकि मानव-जातिको अन्त्य र पशुहरूको अन्त्य समान छ । एउटाको मृत्यु अर्कोको जस्तै छ । तिनीहरू सबैको एउटै सास छ । मानव-जातिलाई पशुहरूलाई भन्दा बढी लाभ छैन । किनकि के सबै कुरा सास नै होइन र?
Also to them is the event of the sons of man, and the event of the brute; one event befalls them: as is the death of the one, so also the death of the other; and there is one breath to all: and what has the man more than the brute? nothing; for all is vanity.
20 हरेक कुरा उहाँ ठाउँमा जान्छ । हरेक कुरा धुलोबाट आउँछ, र धुलोमा नै फर्केर जान्छ ।
All [go] to one place; all were formed of the dust, and all will return to dust.
21 मानिसको आत्मा उँभोतिर र पशुको प्राण तलतिर माटोमा जान्छ भनी कसलाई थाहा छ र?
And who has seen the spirit of the sons of man, whether it goes upward? and the spirit of the beast, whether it goes downward to the earth?
22 त्यसैले मानिसको लागि आफ्नो काममा आनन्द लिनुभन्दा उत्तम कुरो छैन भनी फेरि मैले बुझेँ, किनकि त्यो नै त्यसको जिम्मेवारी हो । त्योभन्दा पछि के हुन्छ भनी देखाउन त्यसलाई कसले फर्काएर ल्याउन सक्छ र?
And I saw that there was no good, but that wherein a man shall rejoice in his works, for it is his portion, for who shall bring him to see any thing of that which shall be after him?
