Muparidzi 11
1 Kanda chingwa chako pamusoro pemvura zhinji, nokuti mushure mamazuva mazhinji uchachiwanazve.
Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days.
2 Govera vanomwe, kunyange navaserewo; nokuti hauzivi kuti idambudziko rakadii richauya panyika.
Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.
3 Kana makore azara nemvura anonayisa mvura panyika. Hazvinei kuti muti wawira zasi kana kumusoro, panzvimbo paunowira, ndipo paucharara.
If the clouds be filled with rain, they pour [it] out upon the earth: and if a tree fall southward, or if it fall northward, in the place where the tree shall fall, there it shall be.
4 Ani naani anotarira mhepo haangadyari; ani naani anotarira makore haangakohwi.
He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.
5 Sezvo usingazivi nzira yemhepo, kana magadzirirwo omuviri mudumbu ramai, saizvozvowo haunganzwisisi basa raMwari, Muiti wezvose.
Among whom none knows what is the way of the wind: as the bones [are hid] in the womb of a pregnant [woman], so you shall not know the works of God, [even] all things whatever he shall do.
6 Kusha mbeu dzako mangwanani, uye madekwana urege kugarira maoko ako, nokuti hauzivi kuti chichabudirira ndechipi, chingava ichi kana icho, kana kuti zvose zviri zviviri zvichafanana pakunaka.
In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening let not your hand be slack: for you know not what sort shall prosper, whether this or that, or whether both shall be good alike.
7 Chiedza chakanaka, uye zvinofadza meso kuona zuva.
Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
8 Kunyange zvazvo munhu akararama makore mazhinji, ngaafadzwe nawo ose. Asi ngaarangarire mazuva erima, nokuti achava mazhinji. Zvose zvichazouya hazvina maturo.
For even if a man should live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
9 Fara zvako jaya, pauduku hwako, uye mwoyo wako ngaukupe mufaro pamazuva ouduku hwako. Tevera nzira dzomwoyo wako, nezvose zvingaonekwe nameso ako, asi uzive kuti pazvinhu zvose izvi Mwari achakusvitsa pakutongwa.
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart blameless, but not in the sight of your eyes: yet know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
10 Saka zvino dzinga zvinonetsa pamwoyo wako ugobvisa zvinotambudza pamuviri wako, nokuti uduku nesimba hazvina maturo.
Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.
