¹Chinhu chimwe nechimwe chino musi wacho, uye shoko rimwe nerimwe pasi pedenga rine nguva yaro.

¹To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

²Nguva yokuberekwa, nenguva yokufa; nguva yokusima, nenguva yokudzura chakasimwa;

²A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

³nguva yokuuraya, nenguva yokuporesa; nguva yokuputsa, nenguva yokuvaka;

³A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

⁴nguva yokuchema, nenguva yokuseka; nguva yokuungudza, nenguva yokupembera;

⁴A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

⁵nguva yokurasha mabwe, nenguva yokuunganidza mabwe; nguva yokumbundikira, nenguva yokurega kumbundikira;

⁵A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

⁶nguva yokutsvaka mibairo, nenguva yokurasikirwa; nguva yokuchengeta, nenguva yokurasha;

⁶A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

⁷nguva yokubvarura, nenguva yokusona; nguva yokunyarara, nenguva yokutaura;

⁷A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

⁸nguva yokuda, nenguva yokurwa, nenguva yorugare.

⁸A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

⁹Ko iye anobata anobatsirwei nezvaanotamburira?

⁹What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

¹⁰Ndakaona kutambudzika kwakapiwa vanakomana vavanhu naMwari, kuti vazvitambudze nazvo.

¹⁰I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

¹¹Chinhu chimwe nechimwe akachiita chakanaka panguva yacho; akaisawo zvisingaperi mumoyo mavo, kunyange zvakadaro munhu haangagoni kunzwisisa zvakabatwa naMwari kubva pakutanga kusvikira pakupedzisira.

¹¹He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

¹²Ndinoziva kuti hakune chinhu chakanaka pakati pavo chingapfuura ichi, kuti vafare, uye kuti vaite zvakanaka upenyu hwavo hwose.

¹²I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

¹³Uyewo, kuti chipo chaMwari kuti munhu mumwe nomumwe adye, amwe, afarire zvinhu zvakanaka pakubata kwake kose.

¹³And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

¹⁴Ndinoziva kuti zvose zvinoitwa naMwari, zvichagara nokusingaperi; hakune chinhu chingawedzerwa, kana chingabviswa pazviri; Mwari akazviita izvozvo, kuti vanhu vamutye.

¹⁴I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

¹⁵Zviripo zvino, zvakanguva zvavapo; uye izvo, zvichavapo, zvakanguva zvavapo; anotsvakazve zvakanga zvadzinganiswa.

¹⁵That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

¹⁶Uyezve, ndakaona pasi pezuva, kuti panzvimbo yokururamisira, zvakaipa zvakanga zviripo; uye panzvimbo yokururama, zvakaipa zvakanga zviripo.

¹⁶And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

¹⁷Ndakati mumoyo mangu, Mwari ndiye achatonga akarurama nowakaipa, nekuti nguva iripo yeshoko rimwe nerimwe nebasa rimwe nerimwe.

¹⁷I said in mine heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.

¹⁸Ndakati mumoyo mangu, Izvi zvinoitwa nokuda kwavanakomana vavanhu, kuti Mwari avaidze, aone kuti ivo vamene vakangoita semhuka.

¹⁸I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

¹⁹nekuti zvinoitirwa vanakomana vavanhu ndizvo zvinoitirwawo mhuka; zvose zvinoitirwa chinhu chimwe. Mufiro womunhu, ndiwo mufiro wemhuka, zvose zvinokufema kumwe; munhu haana paanopfuura mhuka; nekuti zvose hazvina maturo.

¹⁹For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

²⁰Zvose zvinoenda kunzvimbo imwe; zvose zvinobva pavhu, zvose zvinodzokerazve kuvhu.

²⁰All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.

²¹Ndiani ungaziva kana kufema kunopa upenyu kumunhu kunokuisa kumusoro, kana kufema kunopa upenyu kumhuka kuchiburukira pasi?

²¹Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?

²²Saka ndakaona kuti hakune chinhu chinopfuura ichi, kuti munhu afarire mabasa ake, nekuti ndiwo mugove wake; nekuti ndiani achamudzosazve kuti aone zvichamutevera.

²²Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?