Mangangaral 1
1 Ang mga salita ng Mangangaral, na anak ni David, hari sa Jerusalem.
[I am Solomon], the son of [King] David. [I rule] in Jerusalem [and people call me] ‘The (Preacher/Religious Teacher)’.
2 Walang kabuluhan ng mga walang kabuluhan, sabi ng Mangangaral; walang kabuluhan ng mga walang kabuluhan, lahat ay walang kabuluhan.
I say that everything is mysterious; everything is hard for me to understand; it is difficult to understand why everything happens.
3 Anong pakinabang mayroon ang tao sa lahat ng kaniyang gawa, na kaniyang ginagawa sa ilalim ng araw?
(What do people gain from all the work that they do here on the earth?/It seems that people gain no lasting benefit from all the work that they do here on the earth.) [RHQ]
4 Isang salin ng lahi ay yumayaon, at ibang salin ng lahi ay dumarating; nguni't ang lupa ay nananatili magpakailan man.
[Each year] old people die and babies are born, but the earth never changes.
5 Ang araw naman ay sumisikat, at ang araw ay lumulubog, at nagmamadali sa dakong sinisikatan nito.
[Each morning] the sun rises, and [each evening] it sets, and [then] it hurries around to where it started from.
6 Ang hangin ay yumayaon sa dakong timugan, at pumipihit sa hilagaan: at laging pumipihit na patuloy, at ang hangin ay bumabalik uli ayon sa kaniyang pihit.
The wind blows south, and then it [turns around to start blowing towards] the north. It goes around and around in circles.
7 Lahat ng mga ilog ay humuhugos sa dagat, gayon may hindi napupuno ang dagat; sa dakong hinuhugusan ng mga ilog, doon din nagsisihugos uli ang mga yaon.
All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is never full. The water returns [to the sky], and [when it rains], the water returns to the rivers, and it flows again to the sea.
8 Lahat ng mga bagay ay puspos ng pagaalapaap; hindi maisasaysay ng tao: ang mata ay hindi nasisiyahan ng pagtingin, ni ang tainga man ay nasisiyahan sa pakikinig.
Everything is boring, [with the result that] we do not even want to talk about it. We [SYN] see things, but we always want to see more. We [SYN] hear things, but we always want to hear more.
9 Yaong nangyari ay siyang mangyayari; at yaong nagawa ay siyang magagawa: at walang bagong bagay sa ilalim ng araw.
[Everything continues to be the same as it has always been]; things that happen have happened previously, and they will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing [really] new in this world [MTY].
10 May bagay ba na masasabi ang mga tao, Tingnan mo, ito'y bago? nayari nga sa mga panahon na una sa atin.
Sometimes people say, “Look at this! This is something new [RHQ]!” But it has existed previously; it existed before we were born.
11 Walang alaala sa mga dating lahi; ni magkakaroon man ng alaala sa mga huling salin ng lahi na darating, sa mga yaon na darating pagkatapos.
[People] do not remember the things [that happened] long ago, and in the future, people will not remember what we are doing now.
12 Akong Mangangaral ay naging hari sa Israel sa Jerusalem.
I, the Religious Teacher, have been the king of Israel [for many years, ruling] in Jerusalem.
13 At inihilig ko ang aking puso na hanapin at siyasatin sa pamamagitan ng karunungan ang lahat na nagawa sa silong ng langit: mahirap na pagdaramdam na ito ang ibinigay ng Dios sa mga anak ng mga tao, upang pagsanayan.
By being wise, I concentrated on understanding everything that was being done on the earth [MTY]. [But I found out that] God causes [all of] us to experience things that cause us to be unhappy/miserable.
14 Aking nakita ang lahat na gawa, na nagawa sa ilalim ng araw; at, narito, lahat ay walang kabuluhan at nauuwi sa wala.
It seems that nothing that happens on the earth really enables us to do anything useful. It is [like] [MET] chasing the wind.
15 Ang baluktot ay hindi matutuwid: at ang kulang ay hindi mabibilang.
[Many] things that are crooked cannot be caused to become straight; we cannot count things that do not exist.
16 Ako'y sumangguni sa aking sariling puso, na sinasabi ko, Narito, nagtamo ako sa akin ng malaking karunungan ng higit kay sa lahat na nauna sa akin sa Jerusalem: oo, ang puso ko'y nagtaglay ng malaking kabihasnan sa karunungan at kaalaman.
I said to myself, “[Hey], I am wiser than any of the kings that ruled in Jerusalem before I [became the king]. I am wiser and I know more than any of them!”
17 At inihilig ko ang aking puso na makaalam ng karunungan, at makaalam ng kaululan at ng kamangmangan: aking nahalata na ito man ay nauuwi sa wala.
[So] I determined to learn [more] about being wise and to learn about knowing about many things, and [also] to learn about [doing things that are] very foolish [DOU]. [But] I found out that trying to understand those things was also [useless, like] chasing the wind.
18 Sapagka't sa maraming karunungan at maraming kapanglawan: at siyang nananagana sa kaalaman ay nananagana sa kapanglawan.
The wiser I became, the more disappointed I became. The more things I knew about, the sadder I became.
