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

¹To everything — a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:

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

²A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.

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

³A time to slay, 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 skip.

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

⁵A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.

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

⁶A time to seek, And a time to destroy. 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 be silent, 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 advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

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

¹⁰I have seen the travail that God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

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

¹¹The whole He hath made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He hath put in their heart without which man findeth not out the work that God hath done from the beginning even unto the end.

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

¹²I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,

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

¹³yea, even every man who eateth and hath drunk and seen good by all his labour, it [is] a gift of God.

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

¹⁴I have known that all that God doth is to the age, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God hath wrought that they do fear before Him.

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

¹⁵What is that which hath been? already it is, and that which [is] to be hath already been, and God requireth that which is pursued.

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

¹⁶And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment — there [is] the wicked; and the place of righteousness — there [is] the wicked.

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

¹⁷I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.`

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

¹⁸I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to 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 an event [is to] the sons of man, and an event [is to] the beasts, even one event [is] to them; as the death of this, so [is] the death of that; and one spirit [is] to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole [is] vanity.

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

²⁰The whole are going unto one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back unto the dust.

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

²¹Who knoweth the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below 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.

²²And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?