Eclesiastes 3
1 Tudo tem o seu tempo determinado, e todo o proposito debaixo do céu tem o seu tempo:
There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.
2 Ha tempo de nascer, e tempo de morrer: tempo de plantar, e tempo d'arrancar o que se plantou:
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 Tempo de matar, e tempo de curar: tempo de derribar, e tempo de edificar:
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 Tempo de chorar, e tempo de rir: tempo de prantear, e tempo de saltar:
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 Tempo de espalhar pedras, e tempo de ajuntar pedras: tempo de abraçar, e tempo de afastar-se de abraçar:
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 Tempo de buscar, e tempo de perder: tempo de guardar, e tempo de deitar fóra:
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 Tempo de rasgar, e tempo de coser: tempo de calar, e tempo de fallar:
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 Tempo de amar, e tempo de aborrecer: tempo de guerra, e tempo de paz.
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 Que vantagem tem o trabalhador d'aquillo em que trabalha?
(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 Tenho visto o trabalho que Deus deu aos filhos dos homens, para com elle os affligir.
I have seen the work that God has given people to do.
11 Tudo fez formoso em seu tempo: tambem poz o seculo no coração d'elles, sem que o homem possa descobrir a obra que Deus fez desde o principio até ao fim.
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 Já tenho advertido que não ha coisa melhor para elles do que alegrar-se e fazer bem na sua vida;
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 Como tambem que todo o homem coma e beba, e goze do bem de todo o seu trabalho: isto é um dom de Deus.
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 Sei eu que tudo quanto Deus faz isso durará eternamente: nada se lhe deve accrescentar, e nada d'elle se deve diminuir; e isto faz Deus para que haja temor diante d'elle.
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 O que houve d'antes ainda o ha agora: e o que ha de ser, já foi; e Deus pede conta do que passou.
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 Vi mais debaixo do sol, no logar do juizo, que havia ali impiedade, e no logar da justiça que ali havia impiedade.
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 Eu disse no meu coração: Deus julgará o justo e o impio; porque ali será o tempo para julgar de todo o intento e sobre toda a obra.
[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 Disse eu no meu coração ácerca do estado dos filhos dos homens, que Deus lhes declararia; e elles o veriam, que elles são como as bestas em si mesmos.
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 Porque o que succede aos filhos dos homens, isso mesmo tambem succede ás bestas, e o mesmo succede a elles ambos: como morre um, assim morre o outro; e todos teem o mesmo folego, e a vantagem dos homens sobre as bestas não é nenhuma, porque todos são vaidade.
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 Todos vão para um logar: todos foram feitos do pó, e todos voltarão ao pó
[People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil again.
21 Quem adverte que o folego dos filhos dos homens sobe para cima, e que o folego das bestas desce para baixo da terra?
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 Assim que tenho visto que não ha coisa melhor do que alegrar-se o homem nas suas obras, porque essa é a sua porção; porque quem o levará a vêr o que será depois d'elle
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.
