Everything Has Its Time
1 Everything on earth
has its own time
and its own season.
2 There is a time
for birth and death,
planting and reaping,
3 for killing and healing,
destroying and building,
4 for crying and laughing,
weeping and dancing,
5 for throwing stones
and gathering stones,
embracing and parting.
6 There is a time
for finding and losing,
keeping and giving,
7 for tearing and sewing,
listening and speaking.
8 There is also a time
for love and hate,
for war and peace.
What God Has Given Us To Do
9 What do we gain by all our hard work? 10 I have seen what difficult things God demands of us. 11 God makes everything happen at the right time. Yet none of us can ever fully understand all he has done, and he puts questions in our minds about the past and the future. 12 I know the best thing we can do is to always enjoy life, 13 because God's gift to us is the happiness we get from our food and drink and from the work we do. 14 Everything God has done will last forever; nothing he does can ever be changed. God has done all this, so that we will worship him.
15 Everything that happens
has happened before,
and all that will be
has already been—
God does everything
over and over again.
The Future Is Known Only to God
16 Everywhere on earth I saw violence and injustice instead of fairness and justice. 17 So I told myself that God has set a time and a place for everything. He will judge everyone, both the wicked and the good. 18 I know God is testing us to show us that we are merely animals. 19 Like animals we breathe and die, and we are no better off than they are. It just doesn't make sense. 20 All living creatures go to the same place. We are made from earth, and we return to earth. 21 Who really knows if our spirits go up and the spirits of animals go down into the earth? 22 We were meant to enjoy our work, and that's the best thing we can do. We can never know the future.
Otjiṋa atjihe tji noruveze rwatjo
1 Oviṋa avihe mbi tjitwa mouye vi tjitwa moruveze Ndjambi ndwa twa po.
2 Eye u twa po oruveze rwokukwatwa norwokukoka;
oruveze rwokukuna norwokuzukura imbi mbya kunwa;
3 oruveze rwokuyama omuinyo norwokuzepa;
oruveze rwokutunga norwokuhaṋa.
4 Eye u twa po oruveze rwokurira norwokuyora;
oruveze rworuhoze norwenyando;
5 oruveze rwokusuvera norwokuhinokusuvera;
oruveze rwokuhupita norwokuhinokuhupita.
6 Eye u twa po oruveze rwokupandjarisa norwokupaha;
oruveze rwokupwika norwokuimbirahi;
7 oruveze rwokunyondorora norwokuyatata;
oruveze rwokumwina norwokuhungira.
8 Eye u twa po oruveze rwokusuvera norwokutonda;
oruveze rwovita norwohange.
9 Omundu hapo u munina po ondjambi yatjike kongondjero ndje tjita? 10 Ami mba muna omutwaro Ndjambi mbwa twa kombanda yo mundu. 11 Avihe we vi ungura nawa moruveze oruzikame rwavyo. Eye wa twa omakayendero woruveze ndu maru ya momutima womundu, nokuhinokutja omundu ma sora okutjiwa imbi Ndjambi mbye tjita okuza kombutiro nga kondjandero. 12 Otji mba muna kutja kape nouṋingandu warwe komundu posi yokukara nenyando nondjoroka ngunda e nomuinyo. 13 Nu wina omundu auhe tji ma ri nokunwa nokuyorokera otjiungura tje, okutja nao ihi otjo otjiyandjewa tja Ndjambi.
14 Ami mba muna kutja avihe Ndjambi mbye tjita mavi karerere nga aruhe; kaku nokuweziwa ko otjiṋa, nu kaku nokuisiwa ko otjiṋa ku vyo; nungwari Ndjambi u tjita nao kutja ovandu ve mu tire. 15 Avihe mbi ri po vya ri po okuza korukuru; nu imbi mbi mavi kakara po vya karere po rukurukuru; nu Ndjambi potuingi u yarukira po imbi mbya kapita rukuru.
Ouvi nouhasemba mouye
16 Nu komurungu wanao ami wina mba muna kutja kombanda yehi poṋa pu pe sokukara ousemba nombanguriro yousemba, opo pe nouhasemba. 17 Ami mbe ripura nai mu ami omuini: “Ndjambi ma pangura omusemba nomuhasemba pu pe ṱeki, orondu ondyero nondjito aihe ya twirwa po oruveze rwayo oini.” 18 Ami mbe ripura nai: “Ihi tja tjitwa nai kutja Ndjambi a rorere po ovandu okuveraisira kutja owo oveni ve ri otja ovinamuinyo.” 19 Orondu otjiwonga tji tja tyerwa ovandu otji tja tyerwa ovinamuinyo wina: Punga ape koka omundu, opunga ape koka otjinamuinyo wina; aviyevari vi nomasuvaneno nga sana. Onḓengu yomundu i ṱeki poyotjinamuinyo; orondu avihe ovyo omungandjo uriri. 20 Avihe vi yenda koṋa kumwe, koruuma; avihe vya za moruuma, nu avihe mavi yaruka koruuma. 21 Owaṋi ngu tjiwa kutja omuinyo womundu u ronda kombanda, nokutja omuinyo wotjinamuinyo u punda kehi mehi? 22 Otji mba muna kutja kape notjiṋa otjiwa komundu posi yokuriyorokisira oviungura vye, orondu indji hapo oyo ondyero ye. Owaṋi ngu me mu ryamisa kutja a kamune ihi tji maatji kakara po kombunda yonḓiro ye?
