Ecclesiastes 11
1 Send forth your bread upon the face of the water: for you shall find it after many days.
Siganga emmere yo ng’enkuba etonnya, kubanga ebbanga lyayo bwe lirituuka olikungula.
2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil there shall be upon the earth.
Gabiranga musanvu weewaawo munaana, kubanga mu biseera eby’oluvannyuma oyinza okubeera mu kwetaaga.
3 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.
Ebire bwe bijjula amazzi, bitonnyesa enkuba ku nsi; n’omuti bwe gugwa nga gwolekedde obukiikaddyo oba obukiikakkono, mu kifo mwe gugwa mwe gulibeera.
4 He that observes the wind sows not; and he that looks at the clouds will not reap.
Oyo alabirira embuyaga talisiga; n’oyo atunuulira ebire talikungula.
5 Amongst 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.
Nga bw’otosobola kutegeera kkubo mpewo, oba omubiri nga bwe guzimbibwa ku mwana ali mu lubuto; bw’otyo bw’otosobola kutegeera Katonda Omutonzi wa byonna by’akola.
6 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.
Ku makya siga ensigo zo, n’akawungeezi toddiriza mukono gwo; kubanga tomanyi eziryala, zino oba ziri, oba zombi ziriba nnungi.
7 Moreover the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
Ekitangaala kirungi, era okulaba ku musana kisanyusa.
8 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.
Kale omuntu bw’awangaala emyaka emingi, agisanyukirengamu gyonna, naye ajjukirenga nti waliwo ennaku ez’ekizikiza nnyingi ezijja. Ebyo byonna ebijja butaliimu.
9 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 judgement.
Omuvubuka sanyukiranga mu buvubuka bwo, n’omutima gwo gusanyukenga mu nnaku ez’obuvubuka bwo; tambulira mu makubo g’omutima gwo ne mu kulaba kw’amaaso go. Naye manya nga mu byonna, Katonda agenda kukusalira omusango.
10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for youth and folly are vanity.
Noolwekyo ggyawo okweraliikirira mu mutima era weggyeko emitawaana mu ggwe, kubanga obuvubuka n’amaanyi gaabwe butaliimu.
