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.
Ashishe shi nefimbo lasho pamhangela yaKalunga
1 Ashishe oshi notundi yasho ya pangelwa, noshinima keshe shokoshi yeulu oshi nefimbo lasho:
2 efimbo lokudalwa nefimbo lokufya,
efimbo lokutwika nefimbo lokududa mo osho sha twikwa,
3 efimbo lokudipaa nefimbo lokuvelula,
efimbo lokuhanauna po nefimbo lokutunga,
4 efimbo lokulila nefimbo lokuyola,
efimbo lokukema nefimbo lokutanha nehafo,
5 efimbo lokukupula omamanya nefimbo lokwoongela omamanya,
efimbo lokudingatela nefimbo lokuhadingatela,
6 efimbo lokukonga nefimbo lokukanifa,
efimbo lokutuvikila nefimbo lokweekelashi,
7 efimbo lokupombaula nefimbo lokuhondjela kumwe,
efimbo lokumwena nefimbo lokupopya,
8 efimbo lokuhola nefimbo lokutonda,
efimbo lolwoodi nefimbo lombili.
9 Nakulonga oku nelikwafo lashike mokulipyakidila kwaye? 10 Ame nda tala oshilonga osho Kalunga a pa ovana vovanhu e va pyakidilifa nasho, 11 Ye okwa ninga ashishe shiwa pefimbo lasho, nokwa tula momutima wavo oukwaalushe, ndelenee omunhu ita koneke oshilonga osho Kalunga ta ningi kehovelo fiyo okexulilo. 12 Onghee hano onde shi mona nokutya, vo vehe nelao limwe, okuhafa ashike nokulonga osho shiwa mokukalamwenyo kwavo. 13 Navali: oshali shaKalunga omunhu ngeenge ta li ndele ta nu ndele ta shambukwa kouwa moshilonga shaye ashishe shidjuu. 14 Ame onda koneka nokutya, ashishe osho Kalunga a ninga, otashi kala po fiyo alushe. Itapa wedelwa nande osha ndele itapa kufwa sha. Ndele Kalunga osho a ninga vo ve nokutila koshipala shaye. 15 Ashishe eshi shi li po, osha li po nale. Naasho tashi ka kala ka, osha li po nale. Ndele Kalunga ta kongo vali osho sha pita po. 16 Nda mona vali koshi yetango onhele yoihokolola: Pa li pehe nouyuki. Noponhele youyuki pa li pehe nouyuki! 17 Nde lipopila nomwenyo wange: “Kalunga ota ka tokola ovayuki novahenakalunga, osheshi oku nefimbo loshinima keshe noloshilonga keshe.” 18 Ame nde lipopila momwenyo wange: “Molwovana vovanhu osho shi li, opo Kalunga e va yelekele ndele vo ve limone nokutya, muvo vene vo oimuna.” 19 Osheshi ovana vovanhu tava ningwa ngaashi oimuna nokutya, oshipewa shavo shimwe ashike. Ngaashi omunhu ta fi, nosho yo oshimuna tashi fi, osheshi vo aveshe ve nomufudo umwe auke, ndelenee kape na sha momunhu osho tashi mu pitifa komesho yoshimuna. Osheshi ashishe oshongahoelela. 20 Aveshe tava i monhele imwe; aveshe va dja mondwi naaveshe tava shuna mondwi. 21 Olyelye e shi shii ngeenge, omufudo womona womunhu tau i pombada, nomufudo woimuna tau kuluka medu? 22 Osho ngaha hano nde shi mona nokutya, pehe na sha shiwa shi dule okuhafela oilonga yaye, osheshi osho oshipewa shaye. Osheshi olyelye te mu alula a ka tale osho tashi kala konima yaye?
