¹For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

⁶a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

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

⁷a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

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

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

⁸nguva yokuda, nenguva yokurwa, nenguva yorugare.

⁹What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

⁹Ko iye anobata anobatsirwei nezvaanotamburira?

¹⁰I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

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

¹¹He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can’t find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

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

¹²I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

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

¹³Also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy good in all his labor, is the gift of God.

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

¹⁴I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

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

¹⁵That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

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

¹⁶Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

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

¹⁷I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”

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

¹⁸I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

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

¹⁹For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals: for all is vanity.

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.

²⁰All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

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

²¹Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?”

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

²²Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

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