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May nakita pa gid ako nga indi maayo diri sa kalibutan nga nagapabug-at sa tawo: May mga tawo nga ginhatagan sang Dios sang tanan nila nga ginahandom: dungog, pagkabutang kag iban pa nga manggad. Pero wala sila pagtuguti sang Dios nga makahimulos sini kundi ang iban nga tawo. Wala ini sing pulos, kag indi gid maayo. Mahimo nga ang isa ka tawo madamo gid sing kabataan kag malawig ang iya pagkabuhi, pero bisan malawig ang iya pagkabuhi, kon wala man lang siya sing kalipay sa maayo nga mga butang nga nabaton niya kag wala siya ginlubong sang napatay siya, mas maayo pa ang bata nga natawo nga patay sang sa iya. Bisan wala sing pulos ang pagkatawo sang bata, kag bisan nagkadto siya sa lugar sang mga patay[a] nga sa diin indi na siya madumduman pa, kag bisan wala siya makakita sang kasanag sang adlaw ukon makahibalo sang kabuhi, may kalinong pa siya sang sa ato nga tawo nga wala sing kalipay sa maayo nga mga butang nga nabaton niya kag bisan magkabuhi pa siya sing puwerte kalawig. Indi bala nga ang tanan pareho lang sing lugar nga padulungan?

Ang tawo nagapangabudlay agod may kaunon, pero indi siya gihapon makontento. Gani ano bala ang bintaha sang maalamon nga tawo sa buang-buang nga tawo? Ano bala nga kaayuhan ang makuha sang imol nga tawo kon kahibalo siya mag-atubang sang kabuhi? Wala ini sing pulos; daw pareho lang nga nagalagas ka sa hangin. Gani mas maayo pa nga magkontento ka na lang kon ano ang ara sa imo sang sa magsagad ka handom sang iban pa.

10 Napat-od na sang Dios ang tanan sang una pa, kag nahibaluan na niya kon mangin ano kita. Gani indi kita makalalis sa Dios parte sa aton kapalaran, kay mas makusog siya sang sa aton. 11 Kon nagasagi pa kita kalalis, nagadugang pa gid gani ang aton paghambal sang wala sing pulos, kag wala ini nagahatag sang kaayuhan sa aton. 12 Wala sing may nakahibalo kon ano gid ang maayo para sa tawo sa iya malip-ot kag wala sing pulos nga kabuhi nga umalagi lang pareho sa landong. Wala sing may makasugid sa iya kon ano ang matabo sa kalibutan sa tapos siya mapatay.

Footnotes

  1. 6:4 sa lugar sang mga patay: sa literal, sa kadulom.

I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on mankind: God gives some people wealth, possessions and honor, so that they lack nothing their hearts desire, but God does not grant them the ability to enjoy them,(A) and strangers enjoy them instead. This is meaningless, a grievous evil.(B)

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(C) child is better off than he.(D) It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded. Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man— even if he lives a thousand years twice over but fails to enjoy his prosperity. Do not all go to the same place?(E)

Everyone’s toil is for their mouth,
    yet their appetite is never satisfied.(F)
What advantage have the wise over fools?(G)
What do the poor gain
    by knowing how to conduct themselves before others?
Better what the eye sees
    than the roving of the appetite.
This too is meaningless,
    a chasing after the wind.(H)

10 Whatever exists has already been named,(I)
    and what humanity is has been known;
no one can contend
    with someone who is stronger.
11 The more the words,
    the less the meaning,
    and how does that profit anyone?

12 For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few and meaningless days(J) they pass through like a shadow?(K) Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?