उपदेशक 9
1 मैले धर्मात्मा र बुद्धिमान् मानिसहरू र तिनीहरूका कार्यहरूको विषयमा मेरो मनमा यी सबै कुराबारे विचार गरेँ । ती सबै परमेश्वरका हातमा छन् । कसैमाथि प्रेम वा घृणा के आइपर्ने छ भनी कसैलाई थाहा छैन ।
For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
2 सबैको अन्त्य उही किसिमको हुन्छ । धर्मी र दुष्ट मानिसहरू, असल, शुद्ध र अशुद्ध अनि बलिदान चढाउने र बलिदान नचढाउने सबैको दशा एउटै हुन्छ । जसरी असल मानिसहरू मर्छन्, त्यसै गरी पापीहरू मर्ने छन् । जसरी वाचा बाँध्ने मर्छ, त्यसै गरी शपथ खान डराउने मानिस पनि मर्ने छ ।
All things [come] alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3 सूर्यमूनि गरिने हरेक कुराको लागि एउटा खराब दशा छ । तिनीहरू सबैमा उही कुरो आइपर्छ । मानिसको हृदय खराब कुराहरूले भरिएको छ, र तिनीहरू जिउँदा तिनीहरूको हृदयमा पागलपन हुन्छ । त्यसपछि तिनीहरू मरेकाहरूकहाँ जाने छन् ।
This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.
4 सबै बाँचेकाहरूसित मिल्न जानेको आशा हुन्छ । मरेको सिंहभन्दा जिउँदो कुकुर असल हो ।
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 किनकि बाँचेकाहरू मर्ने छन् भनी तिनीहरूलाई थाहा छ, तर मरेकाहरूलाई केही पनि थाहा हुँदैन । तिनीहरूको स्मरणशक्ति गइसकेकोले तिनीहरूले कुनै इनाम पाउँदैन ।
For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
6 तिनीहरूका प्रेम, घृणा र ईर्ष्या धेरै पहिलै नै गाएब भएर गइसकेका छन् । सूर्यमूनि गरिने कुनै पनि कुराको लागि तिनीहरूले फेरि कुनै ठाउँ पाउने छैनन् ।
Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.
7 आफ्नो बाटो लाग्; आनन्द भएर आफ्नो रोटी खा, र प्रसन्न हृदय लिएर आफ्नो दाखमद्य पि, किनकि असल कामहरूको उत्सवलाई परमेश्वरले अनुमोदन गर्नुहुन्छ ।
Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
8 तेरा लुगाहरू सधैँ सेता होऊन्, र तेरो शिर तेलले अभिषेक गरियोस् ।
Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.
9 परमेश्वरले सूर्यमूनि दिनुभएको यस व्यर्थ जीवनकालभरि तेरी पत्नीसित खुसी भएर बस् । सूर्यमूनि तेरो कामको लागि त्यो नै तेरो इनाम हो ।
Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.
10 तेरो हातले जे काम पाउँछ, त्यो शक्ति लगाएर गर्, किनकि तँ जान लागिरहेको पातलमा कुनै काम वा व्याख्या वा ज्ञान वा बुद्धि छैन । (Sheol h7585)
Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest. (Sheol h7585)
11 मैले सूर्यमूनि केही रोचक कुराहरू देखेको छुः तीव्रगतिमा कुद्नेहरूले दौड जित्दैनन् । बलिया मानिसहरूले युद्ध जित्दैनन् । बुद्धिमान् मानिसहरूले रोटी पाउँदैनन् । समझशक्ति भएका मानिसहरूले धन-सम्पत्ति पाउँदैनन् । ज्ञान भएका मानिसहरूले निगाह पाउँदैनन् । बरु, समय र अवसरले तिनीहरू सबैलाई प्रभाव पार्छन् ।
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12 निश्चय नै त्यसको समय कहिले आउने छ भनी कसैलाई थाहा छैन । माछा घातक जालमा परेझैँ वा चराचुरुङ्गी पासोमा परेझैँ मानव-जाति खराब समयको पासोमा जेलिएका छन्, जुन पासो अकस्मात् तिनीहरूमाथि आइपर्छन् ।
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
13 मैले सूर्यमूनि यस्तो बुद्धि पनि देखेको छु, जसले मलाई निकै प्रभावित पार्यो ।
This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.
14 एउटा सानो सहर थियो जहाँ थोरै मात्र मानिसहरू थिए । एउटा महान् राजा यसको विरुद्धमा आएर यसलाई घेरा हाले र यसको विरुद्धमा चारैतिर घेरा-मचान लगाए ।
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 अब त्यस सहरमा एउटा गरिब मानिस फेला पारियो । त्यो बुद्धिमान् थियो, जसले आफ्नो बुद्धिले सहरलाई बचायो । तरै पनि पछि कसैले पनि त्यस गरिब मानिसलाई सम्झेन ।
and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.
16 त्यसैले मैले निष्कर्ष निकालेँ, “शक्तिभन्दा बुद्धि उत्तम हो, तर त्यस गरिब मानिसको बुद्धिलाई तुच्छ ठानियो, र त्यसका वचनहरूलाई ध्यानै दिइएन ।”
Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 मूर्खहरूका बिचमा भएको शासकको चर्को सोरभन्दा नम्र भएर बोलिएका बुद्धिमान् मानिसका वचनहरूलाई राम्ररी ध्यान दिइन्छ ।
The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18 युद्धका तरवारहरूभन्दा बुद्धि उत्तम हो, तर एउटा पापीले धेरै असल कामलाई विनाश गर्छ ।
Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
