उपदेशक 3
1 हरेक कुराको लागि तोकिएको समय छ, र आकाशमूनि हरेक उद्धेश्यको लागि बेलाछ ।
There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.
2 जन्मने एउटा समय छ, र मर्ने एउटा समय । रोप्ने एउटा समय छ, र उखेल्ने एउटा समय ।
There is a time to be born, and there is a time to die. There is a time to plant [seeds], and there is a time to harvest crops.
3 मार्ने एउटा समय छ, र निको पार्ने एउटा समय । भत्काउने एउटा समय छ, र बनाउने एउटा समय ।
There is a time to kill [people], and there is a time to heal [people]. There is a time to tear things down, and there is a time to build things.
4 रुने एउटा समय छ, र हाँस्ने एउटा समय । शोक गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र नाच्ने एउटा समय ।
There is a time to cry, and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn, and there is a time to dance [joyfully].
5 ढुङ्गा फ्याँक्ने एउटा समय छ, र ती बटुल्ने एउटा समय । अरू मानिसलाई अङ्गाल्ने एउटा समय छ, र त्यसबाट अलग रहने एउटा समय ।
There is a time to throw away stones [from a field], and there is a time to gather stones [to build walls/houses]. There is a time to embrace [people], and there is a time to not embrace [people].
6 खोजी गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र खोज्न छाड्ने एउटा समय । राख्ने एउटा समय छ, र फाल्ने एउटा समय ।
There is a time to search for things, and there is a time to stop searching for things. There is a time to keep/save things, and there is a time to throw things away.
7 लुगा च्यात्ने एउटा समय छ, र त्यसलाई मर्मत गर्ने एउटा समय । चुप लाग्ने एउटा समय छ, र बोल्ने एउटा समय ।
There is a time to tear [our old clothes], and there is a time to mend [clothes]. There is a time to say nothing, and there is a time when we should speak.
8 प्रेम गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र घृणा गर्ने एउटा समय । युद्ध गर्ने एउटा समय छ, र मिलाप गर्ने एउटा समय ।
There is a time when we should love [things that people do], and there is a time when we should hate [things that people do]. There is a time for war, and there is a time for peace.
9 कामदारले आफ्नो परिश्रमबाट के लाभ पाउँछ र?
(What do people gain from all the work that they do?/It seems that people gain very little from all the work that they do [RHQ]).
10 मानव-जातिलाई पुरा गर्न परमेश्वरले दिनुभएको काम मैले देखेको छु ।
I have seen the work that God has given people to do.
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 ।
God has appointed a time that is right/correct for everything to happen. He has [also] caused people to realize that there are things that will endure forever. But in spite of that, no one can completely understand everything that God has done, from the time that he starts doing things until he finishes them.
12 मानिस बाँचुञ्जेलसम्म त्यो आनन्दित रहनु र असल गर्नुभन्दा त्यसको लागि अर्को कुनै उत्तम कुरो छैन भनी मलाई थाहा छ ।
I know that the best [LIT] thing for us people to do is to rejoice and to do good things [all] during the time that we are alive.
13 हरेकले खानुपर्छ र पिउनुपर्छ, अनि आफ्ना सबै कामबाट आउने असल कुराहरूमा कसरी आनन्द मनाउने भनी बुझ्नुपर्छ । यो नै परमेश्वरको उपहार हो ।
And I also know that everyone should eat and drink, and enjoy the work that they do. Those are things that God gives to us.
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 [also] know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere 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 ।
Things that exist now have already existed previously, and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously; God causes the same things to happen many times.
16 सूर्यमूनिको दुष्टतालाई मैले देखेको छु, जहाँ न्याय हुनुपर्थ्यो, र धार्मिकताको सट्टामा दुष्टता थियो ।
Furthermore, I saw that on this earth [MTY], even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked [DOU] things.
17 मैले मेरो मनमा भनेँ, “हरेक विषय र हरेक कामको लागि ठिक समयमा परमेश्वरले धर्मीहरू र दुष्टहरूको न्याय गर्नुहुने छ ।”
[So] I said to myself [SYN], “God will judge [both] righteous [people] and wicked [people]; there is a time [for him to do that], because there is a time for him to do everything.”
18 मैले मेरो हृदयमा भनेँ, “मानिसहरू पशुहरूजस्तै हुन् भनी देखाउन परमेश्वरले तिनीहरूको जाँच गर्नुहुन्छ ।”
And regarding humans, I [also] said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that [in one way] people are no different than animals,
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?
because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe [to remain alive]. [With regard to that], people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that.
20 हरेक कुरा उहाँ ठाउँमा जान्छ । हरेक कुरा धुलोबाट आउँछ, र धुलोमा नै फर्केर जान्छ ।
[People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil again.
21 मानिसको आत्मा उँभोतिर र पशुको प्राण तलतिर माटोमा जान्छ भनी कसलाई थाहा छ र?
No one knows [RHQ] for sure that when we die, our souls/spirits go up to heaven and the souls/spirits of animals go down to the place where the dead are.”
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?
So I concluded that the best thing for [us] people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say that because no one of us [RHQ] knows what happens to us after we die.
