Ecclesiastes 7
1 A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
Tsara ny laza soa noho ny menaka manitra; ary ny andro ahaterahana tsy mahaleo ny andro ahafatesana.
2 It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.
Tsara ny mankamin’ ny trano misy fisaonana noho ny mankamin’ ny trano misy fanasana; fa ho amin’ iny no hiafaran’ ny olombelona rehetra, ary ny velona handatsaka am-po izany.
3 Sorrow is better than joy; when the face is sad the mind gets better.
Tsara ny alahelo noho ny hehy; fa na dia malahelo aza ny tarehy, mety tsara ihany ny fo.
4 The hearts of the wise are in the house of weeping; but the hearts of the foolish are in the house of joy.
Ny fon’ ny hendry dia ao amin’ ny trano misy fisaonana; fa ny fon’ ny adala kosa dia ao amin’ ny trano misy fifaliana.
5 It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.
Tsara ny mihaino ny anatra mafy ataon’ ny hendry noho ny mihaino ny hiran’ ny adala.
6 Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.
Toy ny firefodrefotry ny tsilo eo ambanin’ ny vilany, dia tahaka izany ny fihomehezan’ ny adala; zava-poana koa izany.
7 The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.
Fa ny fampahoriana dia mahavery saina ny hendry; ary ny kolikoly mahasimba ny fo.
8 The end of a thing is better than its start, and a gentle spirit is better than pride.
Tsara ny iafaran’ ny raharaha noho ny iandohany; tsara ny mahari-po noho ny miavanavom-panahy.
9 Be not quick to let your spirit be angry; because wrath is in the heart of the foolish.
Aoka tsy halaky tezitra ny fanahinao; fa ny fahatezerana mitoetra ao an-tratran’ ny adala.
10 Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.
Aza manao hoe: Ahoana no nahatsara ny andro taloha noho ny ankehitriny? fa tsy avy amin’ ny fahendrena no anontanianao izany.
11 Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.
Tsara tahaka ny lova ny fahendrena, sady zava-mahasoa ho an’ izay mahita masoandro izany.
12 Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.
Fa fialokalofana ny fahendrena, ary fialokalofana ny vola; ary ny mahatsara ny fahalalana dia izao: Maharo ny ain’ ny manana azy ny fahendrena.
13 Give thought to the work of God. Who will make straight what he has made bent?
Saino ny asan’ Andriamanitra; fa iza moa no mahahitsy izay nataony ho meloka?
14 In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.
Amin’ ny andro mahafaly dia mifalia; ary amin’ ny andro mahory mieritrereta; fa nampitanandrifin’ Andriamanitra ireo, mba tsy hahitan’ ny olona akory izay ho avy any aoriany.
15 These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.
Izao rehetra izao dia efa hitako tamin’ ny androko mandalo foana: misy marina maty amin’ ny hamarinany; ary misy meloka ela velona amin’ ny haratsiany.
16 Be not given overmuch to righteousness and be not over-wise. Why let destruction come on you?
Aza marina loatra, ary aza miseho ho hendry loatra; nahoana noho simbanao ny tenanao?
17 Be not evil overmuch, and be not foolish. Why come to your end before your time?
Aza ratsy loatra ianao, ary aza adala; nahoana no ho faty ianao, raha tsy efa tonga ny andronao?
18 It is good to take this in your hand and not to keep your hand from that; he who has the fear of God will be free of the two.
Tsara raha mitana iroa ianao, nefa aza mampiala ny tananao amin’ itsy; fa izay matahotra an’ Andriamanitra dia ho afaka amin’ izany rehetra izany.
19 Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.
Ny fahendrena no maharo ny hendry mihoatra noho ny mpanapaka folo ao an-tanàna.
20 There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.
Fa tsy misy olona marina ambonin’ ny tany izay manao tsara ka tsy manota.
21 Do not give ear to all the words which men say, for fear of hearing the curses of your servant.
Aza mihainohaino ny teny rehetra tenenina, fandrao handre ny mpanomponao manozona anao ianao;
22 Your heart has knowledge how frequently others have been cursed by you.
fa fantatry ny fonao fa na dia ny tenanao aza dia mba efa nanozona ny sasany matetika ihany koa.
23 All this I have put to the test by wisdom; I said, I will be wise, but it was far from me.
Izany rehetra izany dia notsapaiko tamin’ ny fahendrena. Hoy izaho: Ho hendry aho; kanjo lavitra ahy izany.
24 Far off is true existence, and very deep; who may have knowledge of it?
Eny, izay rehetra lavitra sady lalina dia lalina, iza no mahatakatra azy?
25 I gave my mind to knowledge and to searching for wisdom and the reason of things, and to the discovery that sin is foolish, and that to be foolish is to be without one's senses.
Nitodika aho, ka nampiasaiko ny foko hahalala sy handinika ary hitady fahendrena sy izay anton-javatra ary hahafantatra ny faharatsiana ho fahadalana, ary ny fahadalana ho fahaverezan-tsaina;
26 And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.
ka hitako fa mangidy noho ny fahafatesana ny vehivavy, izay fandrika sy harato ny fony, sady famatorana ny tànany; nefa izay ankasitrahan’ Andriamanitra dia ho afa-mandositra azy, fa ny mpanota ihany no ho azony.
27 Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,
Indro, izany no hitako, hoy Mpitoriteny, raha nandinidinika ny zavatra tsirairay aho mba hahitana izay antony.
28 For which my soul is still searching, but I have it not; one man among a thousand have I seen; but a woman among all these I have not seen.
Izay notadiaviko koa, fa tsy hitako, dia izao: lehilahy iray no hitako ho marina tao amin’ ny arivo; fa tao amin’ ny vehivavy arivo dia tsy nisy hitako na dia iray akory aza.
29 This only have I seen, that God made men upright, but they have been searching out all sorts of inventions.
Indro, izao ihany no hitako: nataon’ Andriamanitra mahitsy ny olona, kanjo namorona sain-kafa maro izy.
