¹Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

¹Aza haingam-bava, ary aza malaky manonona teny eo anatrehan'Andriamanitra ny fonao; fa Andriamanitra dia any an-danitra ary ianao etỳ an-tany, koa aoka ho vitsy ny teninao.

²Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.

²Fa ny haben'ny fisasarana no mahatonga ny nofy; ary ny haben'ny teny no isehoan'ny rediredin'ny adala.

³For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.

³Raha mivoady amin'Andriamanitra ianao, aza manao ampitso lava: fa tsy ankasitrahany ny adala; koa efao ny voadinao.

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.

⁴Aleo tsy mivoady toy izay mivoady ka tsy mahefa.

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

⁵Aza avela hahatonga heloka amin'ny tenanao ny vavanao; ary aza manao eo imason'ny anjely hoe: Niteny tsy nahy aho; nahoana no ho tezitra amin'ny teninao Andriamanitra ka hanimba ny asan'ny tananao? [Na: iraka;]

⁶Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

⁶Fa amin'ny haben'ny nofy dia misy zava-poana; ary toy izany koa ny haben'ny teny, fa Andriamanitra no atahory.

⁷For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.

⁷[Ny mbola hitsarana ny mpampahory sy ny mpamadika ny rariny ary ny maha-zava-poana ny harena sy ny tokony hifaliana amin'izay omen'Andriamanitra] Raha hitanao ny fampahoriana ny malahelo sy ny famadihana ny fitsarana sy ny rariny amin'ny tany, dia aza gaga amin'izany; fa misy ambony kokoa mibanjina ny ambony, ary mbola misy ambony noho ireo indray aza.

⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

⁸Fa na dia izany rehetra izany aza, dia mahasoa ny tany ny fisian'ny mpanjaka amin'izay tany volena.

⁹Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.

⁹Izay tia vola tsy hety ho voky vola; ary izay fatra-pitia harena be tsy hety ho vokin'ny fitomboan-karena; fa zava-poana koa izany.

¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.

¹⁰Raha mitombo ny fananana, dia mitombo koa ny mpihinana azy; ary inona no soa azon'ny tompony, afa-tsy ny mijery maso azy fotsiny ihany?

¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?

¹¹Mamy ny torimason'ny mpiasa, na homan-kely na homam-be izy; fa ny haben'ny ananan'ny manan-karena kosa no tsy ahitany tory.[Na: ny fahavokisan']

¹²The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.

¹²Misy ratsy mahory efa hitako atỳ ambanin'ny masoandro, dia harena tehirizin'ny tompony, nefa mampidi-doza amin'ny tenany;

¹³There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

¹³sady levona izany harena izany noho ny loza manjo; ary miteraka zazalahy ralehilahy nefa tsy misy na inona na inona eny an-tànany,

¹⁴or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

¹⁴Toy ny nivoahany mitanjaka avy tany an-kibon-dreniny, dia toy izay nihaviany ihany no hiverenany; ary tsy hisy na inona na inona ho entin'ny tànany ho valin'ny fisasarany.

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

¹⁵Dia ratsy mahory koa izany, fa toy izay nihaviany indrindra no handehanany; ary inona no soa azony noho ny nisasarany ho an'ny rivotra?

¹⁶And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?

¹⁶Ary koa, homa-maizina amin'ny androny rehetra izy sady manana alahelo be sy fahoriana ary fahasosorana.

¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.

¹⁷Indro, efa hitako izay soa sy izay tsara, dia ny mihinana sy misotro ary mifaly amin'ny fisasarana rehetra izay isasaran'ny olona atỳ ambanin'ny masoandro amin'izay andro vitsy iainany omen'Andriamanitra azy; fa izany no anjarany.

¹⁸Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.

¹⁸Ary koa, ny olona rehetra izay omen'Andriamanitra vola aman-karena sady omeny fahefana hihinanany azy sy hahazoany ny anjarany sy hifaliany amin'ny fisasarana, dia fanomezan'Andriamanitra izany.Fa tsy hahatsiaro loatra ny andro niainany izy, satria ny fahafinaretan'ny fony no avalin'Andriamanitra azy.

¹⁹Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.

¹⁹Fa tsy hahatsiaro loatra ny andro niainany izy, satria ny fahafinaretan'ny fony no avalin'Andriamanitra azy.

²⁰For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.