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 [is] as the wise [man]? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
2 राजाको रक्षा गर्ने परमेश्वरको शपथको कारण तिनको आज्ञा मान्न म तँलाई सल्लाह दिन्छु ।
I [counsel thee] to keep the king's commandment, and [that] in regard 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 to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatever pleaseth him.
4 राजाको वचनले शासन गर्छ । त्यसले कसले तिनलाई यसो भन्न सक्छ, “तपाईं के गर्दै हुनुहुन्छ?”
Where the word of a king [is], [there is] power: and who may say to him, what doest thou?
5 राजाको आज्ञा पालन गर्नेले नोक्सानी हटाउँछ । बुद्धिमान् मानिसको हृदयले समयको उचित मार्ग र तरिका जान्दछ ।
He who keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6 हरेक विषयको लागि ठिक प्रतिक्रिया र प्रतिक्रिया दिने समय छ, किनकि मानिसका कष्टहरू धेरै छन् ।
Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man [is] great upon him.
7 पछि के हुँदै छ भनी कसैलाई थाहा छैन । के हुँदै छ भनी त्यसलाई कसले बताउन सक्छ र?
For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when 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 hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
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 ।
All this have I seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time in which one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
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 so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.
11 दुष्ट अपराधको विरुद्धमा जारी गरिएको मृत्युदण्डलाई झट्टै कार्यान्यन नगरिँदा यसले मानिसको हृदयलाई खराब काम गर्न उस्काउँछ ।
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 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 ।
Though a sinner doeth evil a hundred times, and his [days] are prolonged, yet surely I know that it will be well with them that fear God, who 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 will not be well with the wicked, neither will he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth 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 just [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked [men], to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also [is] 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 commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labor the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
16 बुद्धिलाई जान्न र दिन वा रातमा नसुतिकन अक्सर गरिने कामलाई बुझ्न मैले मेरो मन लगाउँदा,
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also [there is that] neither day nor night seeth 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 ।
Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man may labor to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it]; yes further; though a wise [man] thinketh to know [it], yet shall he not be able to find [it].
