उपदेशक 8
1 बुद्धिमान् मानिस को हो? जीवनमा आइपर्ने घटनाहरूको अर्थ के हो भनी कसलाई थाहा हुन्छ र? मानिसमा भएको बुद्धिले उसको मुहार चम्काउँछ, र उसको मुहारको कठोरता बद्लिन्छ ।
Who knows the wise? and who knows the interpretation of a saying? A man's wisdom will lighten his countenance; but a man of shameless countenance will be hated.
2 राजाको रक्षा गर्ने परमेश्वरको शपथको कारण तिनको आज्ञा मान्न म तँलाई सल्लाह दिन्छु ।
Observe the commandment of the king, and [that] because of the word of the oath of God.
3 तिनको उपस्थितिबाट बाहिरिन हतार नगर्, र कुनै पनि गलत कुराको समर्थनमा खडा नहोओ, किनकि राजाले इच्छा गरेअनुसार काम गर्छन् ।
Be not hasty; thou shalt go forth out of his presence: stand not in an evil matter; for he will do whatsoever he shall please,
4 राजाको वचनले शासन गर्छ । त्यसले कसले तिनलाई यसो भन्न सक्छ, “तपाईं के गर्दै हुनुहुन्छ?”
even as a king having power: and who will say to him, What doest thou?
5 राजाको आज्ञा पालन गर्नेले नोक्सानी हटाउँछ । बुद्धिमान् मानिसको हृदयले समयको उचित मार्ग र तरिका जान्दछ ।
He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment.
6 हरेक विषयको लागि ठिक प्रतिक्रिया र प्रतिक्रिया दिने समय छ, किनकि मानिसका कष्टहरू धेरै छन् ।
For to every thing there is time and judgment; for the knowledge of a man is great to him.
7 पछि के हुँदै छ भनी कसैलाई थाहा छैन । के हुँदै छ भनी त्यसलाई कसले बताउन सक्छ र?
For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?
8 सास नै रोक्न सक्ने गरी कोही पनि आफ्नो सासको शासक हुँदैन, र त्यसको मृत्यको दिनमाथि कसैको शक्ति हुँदैन । युद्धको समयमा कुनै सेनालाई पनि बिदा दिइँदैन, र दुष्टताले यसका दासहरूलाई छुटकारा दिने छैन ।
There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.
9 मैले यी सबै बुझेको छु । सूर्यमूनि गरिने हरेक कामको लागि मैले मेरो मेरो मन लगाएको छु । एउटा मानिसले अर्को मानिसलाई चोट लगाउने गरी थिचोमिचो गर्ने समय पनि छ ।
So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him.
10 यसरी दुष्टहरूलाई सार्वजनिक रूपमा गाडिएको मैले देखेँ । तिनीहरूलाई पवित्र स्थानबाट लगियो र गाडियो, अनि तिनीहरूले दुष्ट कामहरू गरेकै सहरका मानिसहरूले तिनीहरूको प्रशंसा गरे । यो पनि अर्थहीन छ ।
And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and [that] out of the holy place: and they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus: this also is vanity.
11 दुष्ट अपराधको विरुद्धमा जारी गरिएको मृत्युदण्डलाई झट्टै कार्यान्यन नगरिँदा यसले मानिसको हृदयलाई खराब काम गर्न उस्काउँछ ।
Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who do evil quickly, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.
12 पापीले एक सय पटक खराबी गरी त्यो धेरै वर्षसम्म बाँचे तापनि परमेश्वरको आदर गर्ने, उहाँको सामु खडा हुने र उहाँलाई आदर दिनेहरूलाई असलै हुने छ भनी मलाई थाहा छ ।
He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:
13 तर दुष्ट मानिसको लागि राम्रो हुने छैन । त्यसको आयु लामो हुने छैन । त्यसले परमेश्वरलाई आदर नगर्ने भएकोले त्यसका दिनहरू एकै क्षण देखा पर्ने छायाजस्तै हुन्छन् ।
but it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, [which are] as a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.
14 पृथ्वीमा गरिने अर्को व्यर्थ कुरा पनि छ । दुष्ट मानिसहरूलाई झैँ धर्मी मानिसहरूलाई भएको र धर्मी मानिसहरूलाई झैँ दुष्ट मानिसहरूलाई भएको देखिन्छ । म भन्दछु, कि यो पनि बेकामको कुरो हो ।
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.
15 त्यसैले म प्रसन्नताको सिफारि गर्दछु, किनकि मानिसको लागि सूर्यमूनि खानु, पिउनु र खुसी हुनुभन्दा उत्तम कुरो छैन । सूर्यमूनि परमेश्वरले मानिसलाई दिनुभएको त्यसको जीवनकालभिर त्यसको परिश्रममा खुसी नै सँगसँगै जाने छ ।
Then I praised mirth, because there is no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry: and this shall attend him in his labour all the days of his life, which God has given him under the sun.
16 बुद्धिलाई जान्न र दिन वा रातमा नसुतिकन अक्सर गरिने कामलाई बुझ्न मैले मेरो मन लगाउँदा,
Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.
17 मैले परमेश्वरका सबै कामलाई सोच विचार गरेँ, र सूर्यमूनि गरिएको कामलाई मानिसले बुझ्न नसक्ने रहेछ । जवाफहरू पाउनलाई मानिसले जतिसुकै परिश्रम गरे तापनि उसले ती पाउने छैन । आफूलाई थाहा छ भनी बुद्धिमान् मानिसले सोचे तापनि वास्तवमा उसलाई पनि थाहा छैन ।
And I beheld all the works of God, that a man shall not be able to discover the work which is wrought under the sun; whatsoever things a man shall endeavour to seek, however a man may labour to seek it, yet he shall not find it; yea, how much soever a wise man may speak of knowing it, he shall not be able to find it: for I applied all this to my heart, and my heart has seen all this.
