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.

¹ Ma si waasu ka salaŋ, Ni laakalo mo ma si waasu ka hay kulu ci Irikoy jine. Zama Irikoy go beene, ni mo go ganda, Woodin sabbay se naŋ ni sanno ma ciya ikayniyo.

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.

² Zama hindiri ga kaa muraadu boobo sabbay se, Saamo jinde mo, i g'a bay sanni boobo do.

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

³ Waati kaŋ ni ga sarti sambu Irikoy jine, ma si alwaato harta, zama a si maa saamey kaani. Kala ni ma haya kaŋ ni n'a sarti sambu nd'a din bana.

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.

⁴ Dambe day ni ma si sarti sambu, da ni m'a sambu, ni ma s'a bana.

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

⁵ Ni ma si yadda ni meyo ma ni gaahamo daŋ zunubi ra. Ma si ne mo Irikoy dontonanta se: «Ay daray no.» Ifo se no Irikoy ga futu ni jinda se, a ma ni kambe goyo mo halaci?

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?

⁶ Zama hindiri boobo da sanni boobo ra gonda yaamo. Day ni ma humburu Irikoy.

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

⁷ Da ni di i ga talka kankam, i ga cimi ciiti nda adilitaray siirandi mo kawyey ra, ni ma si dambara nda woodin. Zama boro beeri ga boro kaŋ gaze nga gaa laakal, borey kaŋ yaŋ bis'ey mo go no.

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.

⁸ Farey albarka ga boro kulu nafa, bonkoono bumbo ga nafa a gaa.

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

⁹ Boro kaŋ ga ba nzarfu si kungu nda nzarfu. Koyne, boro kaŋ ga ba yulwa si kungu nda tontoni. Woodin mo yaamo no.

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

¹⁰ Da arzaka tonton, a ŋwaakoy mo ga tonton. Ifo ga ti a koyo albarka, Kal a ma guna nda nga moy hinne?

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?

¹¹ Goy-teeri jirbo ga kaan, Baa a ŋwa ikayna wala iboobo no. Amma arzakante kunguyaŋ si naŋ a ma jirbi.

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.

¹² Hasaraw bambata go no kaŋ ay di beena cire: Duureyaŋ kaŋ i koyo go g'i batu, i ma ciya a se hasaraw hari.

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

¹³ Duura din mo ma halaci saaya jaŋay se. D'a na ize aru hay mo, A sinda hay kulu nga kambe ra.

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

¹⁴ Danga mate kaŋ a fatta nga nyaŋo gunda ra gaa-koonu, A ga ye ka dira yaadin koyne, mate kaŋ a kaa din. A si konda hay kulu mo a goyo riiba ra, Danga a si konda hay kulu nga kambe ra no.

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.

¹⁵ Woone mo hasaraw bambata no: Danga mate kaŋ cine boro kaa, yaadin no a ga ye. Ifo no ga ti a riiba kaŋ a ga ŋwa, Za kaŋ haw faaruyaŋ se no a goy?

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?

¹⁶ A jirbey kulu ra a go kubay ra ka margu nda hẽeni korno da doori nda dukuri.

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

¹⁷ Guna haŋ kaŋ ay di ga boori, a ga saba mo: boro ma ŋwa, a ma haŋ, a ma farhã mo nga goyo kulu ra kaŋ a ga taabi nd'a beena cire, a fundo jirbi kayney kaŋ Irikoy n'a no, zama woodin ga ti a baa.

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.

¹⁸ Boro kulu kaŋ no koyne, kaŋ Irikoy n'a no arzaka nda duure, a n'a no mo dabari a ma ŋwa i gaa, a ma du nga baa ka farhã nga goyo ra. Woodin mo Irikoy nooyaŋ no.

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.

¹⁹ Zama a si fongu sorro boobo nga fundi jirbey gaa, zama Irikoy n'a bine toonandi nda nga farhã harey.

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