Lemekeza Mulungu
1Uzisamala mayendedwe ako pamene ukupita ku nyumba ya Mulungu. Upite pafupi kuti ukamvetsere mʼmalo mopereka nsembe ya zitsiru zimene sizizindikira kuti zikuchita zolakwa.
2Usamafulumire kuyankhula,
usafulumire mu mtima mwako
kunena chilichonse pamaso pa Mulungu.
Mulungu ali kumwamba
ndipo iwe uli pa dziko lapansi,
choncho mawu ako akhale ochepa.
3Kuchuluka kwa mavuto mu mtima kumabweretsa maloto oyipa,
ndipo kuchuluka kwa mawu kumadzetsa uchitsiru.
4Pamene ulumbira kwa Mulungu usachedwe kukwaniritsa chimene walumbiracho. Iye sakondweretsedwa ndi chitsiru; kwaniritsa lumbiro lako. 5Kuli bwino kusalumbira kusiyana ndi kulumbira koma osakwaniritsa lumbirolo. 6Pakamwa pako pasakuchimwitse. Ndipo usanene kwa mthenga wa mʼNyumba ya Mulungu kuti, “Ndinalakwitsa polumbira.” Chifukwa chiyani ukufuna Mulungu akwiye ndi mawu ako ndiponso ntchito ya manja ako? 7Maloto ochuluka ndi mawu ochuluka ndi zinthu zopandapake. Kotero lemekeza Mulungu.
Chuma Nʼchopandapake
8Ngati uwona anthu osauka akuzunzika mʼdziko, ndiponso anthu ena akupsinja anzawo ndi kuwalanda ufulu wawo, usadabwe ndi zinthu zimenezi; pakuti woyangʼanira ali naye wina womuyangʼanira wamkulu, ndipo pamwamba pa awiriwa pali ena akuluakulu owaposa. 9Anthu onse amatengako zokolola za mʼminda: koma ndi mfumu yokha imene imapeza phindu la mindayi.
10Aliyense amene amakonda ndalama sakhutitsidwa ndi ndalamazo;
aliyense amene amakonda chuma sakhutitsidwa ndi zimene amapeza.
Izinso ndi zopandapake.
11Chuma chikachuluka
akudya nawo chumacho amachulukanso.
Nanga mwini wake amapindulapo chiyani
kuposa kumangochiyangʼana ndi maso ake?
12Wantchito amagona tulo tabwino
ngakhale adye pangʼono kapena kudya kwambiri,
koma munthu wolemera, chuma
sichimulola kuti agone.
13Ine ndinaona choyipa chomvetsa chisoni pansi pano:
chuma chokundikidwa chikupweteka mwini wake yemwe,
14kapena chuma chowonongedwa pa nthawi yatsoka,
kotero kuti pamene wabereka mwana
alibe kanthu koti amusiyire.
15Munthu anabadwa wamaliseche kuchokera mʼmimba mwa amayi ake,
ndipo monga iye anabadwira, adzapitanso choncho.
Pa zonse zimene iye anakhetsera thukuta
palibe nʼchimodzi chomwe chimene adzatenge mʼmanja mwake.
16Izinso ndi zoyipa kwambiri:
munthu adzapita monga momwe anabwerera,
ndipo iye amapindula chiyani,
pakuti amagwira ntchito yolemetsa yopanda phindu?
17Masiku ake onse ndi odzaza ndi mdima,
kukhumudwa kwakukulu, masautso ndi nkhawa.
18Tsono ndinazindikira kuti nʼchabwino ndi choyenera kuti munthu azidya ndi kumwa, ndi kukhutitsidwa ndi ntchito yake yolemetsa imene amayigwira pansi pano pa nthawi yake yochepa imene Mulungu amamupatsa, poti ichi ndiye chake. 19Komatu pamene Mulungu apereka chuma kwa munthu aliyense ndi zinthu zina, ndi kulola kuti akondwere ndi chumacho, munthuyo alandire chumacho ndi kusangalala ndi ntchito yake, imene ndi mphatso yochokera kwa Mulungu. 20Munthu wotereyu saganizirapo za masiku a moyo wake, chifukwa Mulungu amamutanganidwitsa ndi chisangalalo cha mu mtima mwake.
1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil. 2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.5.2 thing: or, word 3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.
4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed. 5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay. 6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands? 7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
8¶ If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.5.8 at the…: Heb. at the will, or, purpose
9¶ Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. 10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. 15As he came forth of his mother’s womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand. 16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind? 17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
18¶ Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.5.18 it is good…: Heb. there is a good which is comely, etc5.18 all the days: Heb. the number of the days 19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. 20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.5.20 For…: or, Though he give not much, yet he remembereth, etc
