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.
1Pathian ina na hoh chiangin na khepek kemin; za dinga pai lah mihaite kithoihna piak sangin a hoihzo ngala: gilou a hih uh chih lah a thei ngal kei ua.
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.
2Kam lawp kenla, Pathian maa thil himhim gen dingin na lungtang lawptawp kei hen; Pathian lah van ah a om a, nang lah leitungah na om ngala: huaijiakin na thute tawmsakin.
3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
3Mang lah thu leh la tampi toh ahongoma; huan mihai aw thu tampi toh.
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.
4Pathian laka thuchiam na chiam chiangin, pe dingin hal ken; mihaite tungah lah kipahna a nei ngal keia: na thuchiam pen piain.
5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
5Na chiama na piak louh sangin, na chiamlouh a hoihjaw hi.
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?
6Na kamin na sa thil a hihkhelh sak phal ken: angel maah leng, a dikkei chi sam ken: bangdingin na aw ah Pathianin a hehin, na khut nasep a hihse dia?
7For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.
7Huchibangin mangte tamna ah bangmahloute a tam thu tampite jiakin siatna hongom ngal naka: himahleh nangjaw Pathian kihta in.
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.
8Gentheite nuaisiahna leh, hiamgamnain bial sungah vaihawmna leh diktatna a lamang chih na muh leh, huai thu lamdang sa ken: sang sanga sangjaw khatin lah a limsak ngala; huan amau sanga sang om ahi.
9Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.
9Huailouin leia punna bangteng ading ahi: kumpipa ngei leng loumain a na a sepsak hi.
10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
10Kuapeuh dangka deihta dangkain a lungkim kei ding; kuapeuh hauhsakna punna deihta leng: hiai leng bangmahlou ahi.
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?
11Van a khan chiangin, amau nete a khang uh; huan huai neimi adingin bang phattuamna a oma, a mittea huaite et chihngallouh?
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.
12Ne tawmin ne tam leh, semgim mi ihmut a lima; himahleh mihausa vahnain amah a ihmu sak kei hi.
13There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
13Ni nuaia gilou hoihhetlou ka muh a oma, huai tuh, hauhsakna a neipan amah siatna dia a kep:
14or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
14Huan huai hauhsaknate thuakna gilouin a mangthang hi; huan tapa a suan leh, a khut ah bangmah a om kei.
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.
15A nu gil akipana a hongpai leh, vuaktangin a pai nawn ding a hongpai bangin, a sepgimna, a khuta a puak mang theih, adingin bangmah a la kei ding hi.
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?
16Huan hiai leng gilou hoihhetlou ahi, a hongpai bang dan tengtengin, hichibangin a pai dinga: huih adinga a sepgimnaah bang punna a nei a?
17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.
17A damsung tengin khomial ah an a nea, huan nakpi taka hih buaiin a oma, chinatna leh thangpaihna a nei hi.
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.
18Ngaiin, hoih leh kilawm hia ka muh min Pathianin amah a piak a damsung tenga a neka, a dawna, ni nuaia a sepgimnaa sepgimna tengtenga hoih nuam a sakpiha, huai tuh ahi: hiai lah a tantuan ahi ngala.
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.
19Mi chiteng leng amah kianga Pathianin hausakna leh neihzohna a piak, huaia nek theihna a piaka, a tantuan la ding leh a sepgimnaa kipak dingin; hiai Pathian thilpiak ahi.A dam lai nite lah a theigige lo kei dinga; a lungtang kipahnaa Pathianin amah a dawn jiakin.
20For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.
20A dam lai nite lah a theigige lo kei dinga; a lungtang kipahnaa Pathianin amah a dawn jiakin.