¹Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

¹Nak texxic saß lix templo li Dios cheqßuehak retal chi us chanru lê naßleb. Incßaß têqßue êchßôl xqßuebal li cßatbil mayej joß nequeßxbânu li mâcßaßeb xnaßleb. Eb aßan incßaß nequeßxqßue retal nak incßaß us yôqueb xban nak incßaß nequeßxtau ru lix yâlal li yôqueb chixbânunquil. Cheqßuehak ban êchßôl chixtzolbal lix yâlal.

²Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

²Moco yalak cßaßru ta têye chi incßaß têcßoxla chi us. Incßaß tex-oc xyechißinquil re li Dios li cßaßru incßaß naru têqßue xban nak li Dios saß choxa cuan ut lâex saß ruchichßochß cuanquex. Chebânuhak cuênt re nak incßaß tex-âtinak nabal.

³For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

³Incßaß us nak yôkex chi cßoxlac chirix li cßaßak re ru, xban nak cui yôkex chi cßoxlac, yalak cßaßru tixcßut rib chêru saß lê matcß. Ut cui junes âtinac nequebânu, yôquex chixbânunquil joß nequeßxbânu li mâcßaßeb xnaßleb.

⁴When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

⁴Cui cßaßru têraj xyechißinquil re li Dios, chebânuhak chi junpât xban nak li Dios incßaß nacuulac chiru nak incßaß nequebânu li cßaßru nequeyechißi re.

⁵Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

⁵Kßaxal us nak mâcßaß têyechißi cui nequecßoxla nak incßaß naru têbânu.

⁶Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?

⁶Cheqßuehak retal li cßaßru têbânu re nak incßaß texmâcobk xban li cßaßru têyechißi. Mâre mokon têye re laj cßanjel chiru li Dios nak xmâcßaßil ênaßleb xebânu cuiß. Li Dios naru nasach ru li ac xebânu. ¿Cßaßut nak têchikß xjoskßil li Dios riqßuin li cßaßru nequeye?

⁷For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

⁷Joßcan nak cui lâex junes matqßuec nequebânu ut junes âtinac nequebânu, aßan mâcßaß na-oc cuiß. Li cßaßru tento xbânunquil, aßan xxucuanquil ru li Kâcuaß Dios.

⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.

⁸Misach êchßôl chirilbal nak saß junak tenamit yôk xbânunquil raylal reheb li nebaß. Nabal raylal nequeßxbânu ut incßaß nequeßrakoc âtin saß tîquilal xban nak li cuan saß xcuanquil taklanbil xban li nim xcuanquil chiru aßan. Ut li jun, li nim xcuanquil, taklanbil ajcuiß xban jun chic kßaxal nim xcuanquil.

⁹Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

⁹¿Ma incßaß ta biß nacßanjelac re chixjunileb chixjunil li acuîmk li na-el saß li chßochß? Li acuîmk li na-el saß li chßochß nacßanjelac ajcuiß re li rey.

¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

¹⁰Li ani cuan xtumin, toj naraj nabal xtzßakob. Ut li ani cuan nabal lix biomal, incßaß natzßakloc re. Toj târaj cuißchic xtzßakob. Chixjunil aßin mâcßaß na-oc cuiß.

¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

¹¹Li ani cuan nabal cßaßru re, nabal ajcuiß naxsach. ¿Cßaßru naxra nak cuan nabal cßaßru re? Mâcßaß, xban nak yal naril nak na-osoß chiru.

¹²The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

¹²Li ani nacßanjelac, sa nacuar, usta natzacan chi us usta incßaß. Abanan li biom incßaß nacuar chixcßoxlanquil li cßaßru cuan re.

¹³There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

¹³Cuan jun chic li chßaßajquilal ninqßue retal arin saß ruchichßochß kßaxal ra rilbal. Aßan li xxocbal nabal li biomal yal re nak tixcßul chßaßajquilal mokon.

¹⁴But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

¹⁴Cui incßaß teßxnau rilbal lix biomal, mâre tixsach chixjunil chi mâcßaß rajbal ut mâcßaß chic tâcanâk reheb li ralal xcßajol.

¹⁵As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

¹⁵Nak nayoßla li cristian, tßustßu. Mâcßaß cuan re. Joßcan ajcuiß nak tâcâmk. Mâcßaß naru tixcßam chirix. Incßaß naru naxcßam li cßaßru re li ac xcßanjela.

¹⁶And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

¹⁶Aßin chßaßaj xcßoxlanquil nak nayoßla li cristian mâcßaß cuan re. Joßcan ajcuiß nak nacam. Mâcßaß naxcßam chirix. Riqßuin aßin nakaqßue retal nak mâcßaß aj e nak naxcamsi rib chi cßanjelac.

¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

¹⁷Li ani naxnumsi lix yußam chi mâcßaß rajbal chanchan saß kßojyîn cuan. Nabal li raylal xcßul ut nabal li chßaßajquilal ut yajel.

¹⁸Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.

¹⁸Riqßuin chixjunil aßin lâin xinqßue retal nak li cßaßru us tixbânu li cuînk, aßan cuaßac ut ucßac ut xyalbal xsahil li quixcßanjela ru nak cuan arin saß ruchichßochß. Lix yußam quiqßueheß re xban li Dios. Tento tâcßanjelak xban nak ac tenebanbil saß xbên.

¹⁹Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.

¹⁹Cui li Dios naxqßue xbiomal li junjûnk, naxqßue re nak târûk tâcuaßak ut tâucßak ut tixyal xsahil lix cßanjel ut tâsahokß saß xchßôl nak yô chi cßanjelac. Aßin aßan jun mâtan naxqßue li Dios.Li Dios naxqßue li sahil chßôlej re. Joßcan nak incßaß nacßoxlac chirix li cßaßru naxcßul saß lix yußam saß ruchichßochß.

²⁰For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

²⁰Li Dios naxqßue li sahil chßôlej re. Joßcan nak incßaß nacßoxlac chirix li cßaßru naxcßul saß lix yußam saß ruchichßochß.