Ecclesiastes 9
1 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:
मैले धर्मात्मा र बुद्धिमान् मानिसहरू र तिनीहरूका कार्यहरूको विषयमा मेरो मनमा यी सबै कुराबारे विचार गरेँ । ती सबै परमेश्वरका हातमा छन् । कसैमाथि प्रेम वा घृणा के आइपर्ने छ भनी कसैलाई थाहा छैन ।
2 But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.
सबैको अन्त्य उही किसिमको हुन्छ । धर्मी र दुष्ट मानिसहरू, असल, शुद्ध र अशुद्ध अनि बलिदान चढाउने र बलिदान नचढाउने सबैको दशा एउटै हुन्छ । जसरी असल मानिसहरू मर्छन्, त्यसै गरी पापीहरू मर्ने छन् । जसरी वाचा बाँध्ने मर्छ, त्यसै गरी शपथ खान डराउने मानिस पनि मर्ने छ ।
3 This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell. (questioned)
सूर्यमूनि गरिने हरेक कुराको लागि एउटा खराब दशा छ । तिनीहरू सबैमा उही कुरो आइपर्छ । मानिसको हृदय खराब कुराहरूले भरिएको छ, र तिनीहरू जिउँदा तिनीहरूको हृदयमा पागलपन हुन्छ । त्यसपछि तिनीहरू मरेकाहरूकहाँ जाने छन् ।
4 There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.
सबै बाँचेकाहरूसित मिल्न जानेको आशा हुन्छ । मरेको सिंहभन्दा जिउँदो कुकुर असल हो ।
5 For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.
किनकि बाँचेकाहरू मर्ने छन् भनी तिनीहरूलाई थाहा छ, तर मरेकाहरूलाई केही पनि थाहा हुँदैन । तिनीहरूको स्मरणशक्ति गइसकेकोले तिनीहरूले कुनै इनाम पाउँदैन ।
6 Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.
तिनीहरूका प्रेम, घृणा र ईर्ष्या धेरै पहिलै नै गाएब भएर गइसकेका छन् । सूर्यमूनि गरिने कुनै पनि कुराको लागि तिनीहरूले फेरि कुनै ठाउँ पाउने छैनन् ।
7 Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.
आफ्नो बाटो लाग्; आनन्द भएर आफ्नो रोटी खा, र प्रसन्न हृदय लिएर आफ्नो दाखमद्य पि, किनकि असल कामहरूको उत्सवलाई परमेश्वरले अनुमोदन गर्नुहुन्छ ।
8 At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head.
तेरा लुगाहरू सधैँ सेता होऊन्, र तेरो शिर तेलले अभिषेक गरियोस् ।
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.
परमेश्वरले सूर्यमूनि दिनुभएको यस व्यर्थ जीवनकालभरि तेरी पत्नीसित खुसी भएर बस् । सूर्यमूनि तेरो कामको लागि त्यो नै तेरो इनाम हो ।
10 Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening. (Sheol h7585)
तेरो हातले जे काम पाउँछ, त्यो शक्ति लगाएर गर्, किनकि तँ जान लागिरहेको पातलमा कुनै काम वा व्याख्या वा ज्ञान वा बुद्धि छैन । (Sheol h7585)
11 I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skillful: but time and chance in all.
मैले सूर्यमूनि केही रोचक कुराहरू देखेको छुः तीव्रगतिमा कुद्नेहरूले दौड जित्दैनन् । बलिया मानिसहरूले युद्ध जित्दैनन् । बुद्धिमान् मानिसहरूले रोटी पाउँदैनन् । समझशक्ति भएका मानिसहरूले धन-सम्पत्ति पाउँदैनन् । ज्ञान भएका मानिसहरूले निगाह पाउँदैनन् । बरु, समय र अवसरले तिनीहरू सबैलाई प्रभाव पार्छन् ।
12 Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.
निश्चय नै त्यसको समय कहिले आउने छ भनी कसैलाई थाहा छैन । माछा घातक जालमा परेझैँ वा चराचुरुङ्गी पासोमा परेझैँ मानव-जाति खराब समयको पासोमा जेलिएका छन्, जुन पासो अकस्मात् तिनीहरूमाथि आइपर्छन् ।
13 This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great:
मैले सूर्यमूनि यस्तो बुद्धि पनि देखेको छु, जसले मलाई निकै प्रभावित पार्यो ।
14 A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
एउटा सानो सहर थियो जहाँ थोरै मात्र मानिसहरू थिए । एउटा महान् राजा यसको विरुद्धमा आएर यसलाई घेरा हाले र यसको विरुद्धमा चारैतिर घेरा-मचान लगाए ।
15 Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.
अब त्यस सहरमा एउटा गरिब मानिस फेला पारियो । त्यो बुद्धिमान् थियो, जसले आफ्नो बुद्धिले सहरलाई बचायो । तरै पनि पछि कसैले पनि त्यस गरिब मानिसलाई सम्झेन ।
16 And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
त्यसैले मैले निष्कर्ष निकालेँ, “शक्तिभन्दा बुद्धि उत्तम हो, तर त्यस गरिब मानिसको बुद्धिलाई तुच्छ ठानियो, र त्यसका वचनहरूलाई ध्यानै दिइएन ।”
17 The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools.
मूर्खहरूका बिचमा भएको शासकको चर्को सोरभन्दा नम्र भएर बोलिएका बुद्धिमान् मानिसका वचनहरूलाई राम्ररी ध्यान दिइन्छ ।
18 Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.
युद्धका तरवारहरूभन्दा बुद्धि उत्तम हो, तर एउटा पापीले धेरै असल कामलाई विनाश गर्छ ।
