1Ngwarira rutsoka rwako kana uchienda kuimba yaMwari; nekuti kuswedera kuzonzwa kunopfuura kubayira chibayiro chamapenzi; nekuti havazivi kuti vanoita zvakaipa.
1Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
2Usakurumidza nomuromo wako, moyo wako urege kukurumidza kutaura shoko pamberi paMwari; nekuti Mwari ari kudenga, iwe uri pasi; naizvozvo mashoko ako ngaave mashoma.
2Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
3nekuti kurota kunouya namabasa mazhinji, nenzwi rebenzi namashoko mazhinji.
3For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
4Kana uchinge wapikira Mwari mhiko, usanonoka kuiripa; nekuti iye haafariri mapenzi; ripa zvaunopika.
4When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
5Zviri nani kuti urege kupika, pakuti upike usingaripi.
5It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
6Usatendera muromo wako kutadzisa nyama yako; usati pamberi pomutumwa waMwari, Yakanga iri mhosho; Mwari achatsamwireiko inzwi rako,akaparadza basa ramaoko ako?
6Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
7nekuti pazviroto zvizhinji napamashoko mazhinji pane zvisina maturo zvizhinji; asi iwe utye Mwari.
7For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.
8Kana uchiona murombo achimanikidzwa, nokururamisa nokururama zvichibviswa nesimba panyika, usashamiswa nazvo; nekuti mukuru kuvakuru vose anocherekedza; vamwe variko vakuru kwavari.
8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
9nekuti nyika inobatsirwa zvikuru nechinhu ichi, mambo anofarira kurimiwa kweminda.
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
10Anoda sirivha, haangagutswi nesirivha, naiye anoda zvakawanda, haangagutswi nezvakawanda; naizvozvo hazvina maturo.
10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
11Kana fuma ichiwanda, vadyi vanowandawo; mwene wayo anobatsirwei, asi kungoona nameso ake.
11When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
12Hope dzomunhu, unobata, dzakanaka, kana achidya zvishoma kana zvizhinji; asi kuguta komufumi hakumutenderi kuvata.
12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
13Kune chinhu chakaisvoipa, chandakaona pasi pezuva, fuma inochengetwa nomwene wayo, ichimuonesa nhamo.
13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
14fuma iyo inopera nechinhu chakaipa chinomuwira; kana achinge abereka mwanakomana, haana chinhu muruoko rwake.
14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15Sezvaakabuda mudumbu ramai vake, achadzokazve asina chinhu, sezvaakabuda; haana chaakatamburira, chaangatora, chaangaenda nacho muruoko rwake.
15As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
16Nechinhu ichi chakaisvoipawo, kuti pazvose, sezvaakauya, saizvozvo achaendazve; zvino achawaneiko, zvaakatamburira mhepo?
16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
17Mazuva ake osewo anodya murima, anotambudzika kwazvo; anourwere neshungu.
17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
18Tarirai, zvandakaona kuti zvakanaka, zvinofanira munhu, ndiko kuti adye, amwe, afarire zvinhu zvakanaka pakubata kwake kose kwaanobata pasi pezuva, mazuva ose oupenyu hwake hwaakapiwa naMwari; nekuti ndiwo mugove wake.
18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
19Munhu mumwe nomumwewo, akapiwa naMwari fuma nezvakawanda, akapiwawo simba kuti azvidye nokutora icho chipo chinobva kuna Mwari.
19Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
20nekuti iye haangarangariri zvikuru mazuva oupenyu hwake, nekuti Mwari anopindura pamufaro womoyo wake.
20For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.