¹For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.

¹ Ystyriais hyn i gyd, a chanfod bod y rhai cyfiawn a doeth �'u gweithredoedd yn llaw Duw, ac na u373?yr neb prun ai cariad ai casineb sy'n ei aros.

²All things [come] alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.

² Yr un peth sy'n digwydd i bawb � i'r cyfiawn a'r drygionus, i'r da a'r drwg, i'r gl�n a'r aflan, i'r un sy'n aberthu a'r un nad yw'n aberthu. Y mae'r daionus a'r pechadur fel ei gilydd, a'r un sy'n tyngu llw fel yr un sy'n ofni gwneud hynny.

³This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.

³ Dyma sy'n ddrwg yn y cyfan a ddigwydd dan yr haul: mai'r un peth yw tynged pawb. Y mae calon pobl yn llawn drygioni, a ffolineb yn eu calonnau ar hyd eu bywyd, ac yna y maent yn marw.

⁴For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

⁴ Y mae gobaith i'r un a gyfrifir ymysg y byw; oherwydd y mae ci byw yn well na llew marw.

⁵For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.

⁵ Y mae'r byw yn gwybod y byddant farw, ond nid yw'r meirw yn gwybod dim; nid oes bellach wobr iddynt, oherwydd fe ddiflanna'r cof amdanynt.

⁶Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.

⁶ Yn wir y mae eu cariad, a'u casineb a'u cenfigen eisoes wedi darfod, a bellach nid oes iddynt ran yn yr holl bethau a ddigwydd dan yr haul.

⁷Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.

⁷ Dos, bwyta dy fwyd mewn llawenydd, ac yf dy win � chalon lawen, oherwydd y mae Duw eisoes yn fodlon ar dy weithredoedd.

⁸Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.

⁸ Gofala fod gennyt ddillad gwyn bob amser, a chofia roi olew ar dy ben.

⁹Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.

⁹ Mwynha fywyd gyda'r wraig yr wyt yn ei charu, a hynny yn ystod holl ddyddiau dy fywyd gwag a roddodd ef iti dan yr haul, oherwydd dyma yw dy dynged mewn bywyd, ac yn y llafur a gyflawni dan yr haul.

¹⁰Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

¹⁰ Beth bynnag yr wyt yn ei wneud, gwna �'th holl egni; oherwydd yn Sheol, lle'r wyt yn mynd, nid oes gwaith na gorchwyl, deall na doethineb.

¹¹I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

¹¹ Unwaith eto, dyma a sylwais dan yr haul: nid y cyflym sy'n ennill y ras, ac nid y cryf sy'n ennill y rhyfel; nid y doethion sy'n cael bwyd, nid y deallus sy'n cael cyfoeth, ac nid y rhai gwybodus sy'n cael ffafr. Hap a damwain sy'n digwydd iddynt i gyd.

¹²For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

¹² Ni u373?yr neb pa bryd y daw ei amser; fel y delir pysgod mewn rhwyd ac adar mewn magl, felly y delir pobl gan amser adfyd sy'n dod arnynt yn ddisymwth.

¹³This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.

¹³ Dyma hefyd y ddoethineb a welais dan yr haul, ac yr oedd yn hynod yn fy ngolwg:

¹⁴There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:

¹⁴ yr oedd dinas fechan, ac ychydig o bobl ynddi; ymosododd brenin nerthol arni a'i hamgylchynu ac adeiladu gwarchae cryf yn ei herbyn.

¹⁵and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.

¹⁵ Yr oedd ynddi ddyn tlawd a doeth, ac fe waredodd ef y ddinas trwy ei ddoethineb; eto ni chofiodd neb am y dyn tlawd hwnnw.

¹⁶Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.

¹⁶ Ond yr wyf yn dweud bod doethineb yn well na chryfder, er i ddoethineb y dyn tlawd gael ei dirmygu, a neb yn gwrando ar ei eiriau.

¹⁷The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

¹⁷ Y mae geiriau tawel y doethion yn well na bloedd llywodraethwr ymysg ffyliaid.

¹⁸Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

¹⁸ Y mae doethineb yn well nag arfau rhyfel, ond y mae un pechadur yn difetha llawer o ddaioni.