Ecclesiastes 8 - Listen Online

¹ TALI o dabi ọlọgbọ́n enia? tali o si mọ̀ itumọ nkan? Ọgbọ́n enia mu oju rẹ̀ dán, ati igboju rẹ̀ li a o si yipada.

¹ Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.

² Mo ba ọ mọ̀ ọ pe, ki iwọ ki o pa ofin ọba mọ́, eyini si ni nitori ibura Ọlọrun.

² I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.

³ Máṣe yara ati jade kuro niwaju rẹ̀: máṣe duro ninu ohun buburu; nitori ohun ti o wù u ni iṣe.

³ Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.

⁴ Nibiti ọ̀rọ ọba gbe wà, agbara mbẹ nibẹ; tali o si le wi fun u pe, kini iwọ nṣe nì?

⁴ Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?

⁵ Ẹnikẹni ti o pa ofin mọ́ kì yio mọ̀ ohun buburu: aiya ọlọgbọ́n enia si mọ̀ ìgba ati àṣa.

⁵ Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.

⁶ Nitoripe ohun gbogbo ti o wuni ni ìgba ati àṣa wà fun, nitorina òṣi enia pọ̀ si ori ara rẹ̀.

⁶ Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

⁷ Nitoriti kò mọ̀ ohun ti mbọ̀: tali o si le wi fun u bi yio ti ri?

⁷ For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

⁸ Kò si enia kan ti o lagbara lori ẹmi lati da ẹmi duro; bẹ̃ni kò si lagbara li ọjọ ikú: kò si iránpada ninu ogun na; bẹ̃ni ìwa buburu kò le gbà awọn oluwa rẹ̀.

⁸ There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.

⁹ Gbogbo nkan wọnyi ni mo ri, mo si fiyè si iṣẹ gbogbo ti a nṣe labẹ õrùn: ìgba kan mbẹ ninu eyi ti ẹnikan nṣe olori ẹnikeji fun ifarapa rẹ̀.

⁹ All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.

¹⁰ Bẹ̃ni mo si ri isinkú enia buburu, ati awọn ti o ṣe otitọ ti o wá ti o si lọ kuro ni ibi mimọ́, a si gbagbe wọn ni ilu na: asan li eyi pẹlu.

¹⁰ And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

¹¹ Nitoriti a kò mu idajọ ṣẹ kánkán si iṣẹ buburu, nitorina aiya awọn ọmọ enia mura pãpa lati huwa ibi.

¹¹ Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

¹² Bi ẹlẹṣẹ tilẹ ṣe ibi nigba ọgọrun, ti ọjọ rẹ̀ si gùn, ṣugbọn nitõtọ, emi mọ̀ pe yio dara fun awọn ti o bẹ̀ru Ọlọrun, ti o bẹ̀ru niwaju rẹ̀:

¹² Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:

¹³ Ṣugbọn kì yio dara fun enia buburu, bẹ̃ni kì yio fa ọjọ rẹ̀ gun ti o dabi ojiji, nitoriti kò bẹ̀ru niwaju Ọlọrun.

¹³ But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.

¹⁴ Asan kan mbẹ ti a nṣe li aiye; niti pe, olõtọ enia wà, awọn ti o nri fun bi iṣẹ buburu; ati pẹlu, enia buburu wà, awọn ti o nri fun bi iṣẹ olododo: mo ni asan li eyi pẹlu.

¹⁴ There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.

¹⁵ Nigbana ni mo yìn iré, nitori enia kò ni ohun rere labẹ õrùn jù jijẹ ati mimu, ati ṣiṣe ariya: nitori eyini ni yio ba a duro ninu lãla rẹ̀ li ọjọ aiye rẹ̀, ti Ọlọrun fi fun u labẹ õrùn.

¹⁵ Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.

¹⁶ Nigbati mo fi aiya mi si ati mọ̀ ọgbọ́n, on ati ri ohun ti a ṣe lori ilẹ: (ẹnikan sa wà pẹlu ti kò fi oju rẹ̀ ba orun li ọsan ati li oru.)

¹⁶ When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)

¹⁷ Nigbana ni mo wò gbogbo iṣẹ Ọlọrun, pe enia kò le ridi iṣẹ ti a nṣe labẹ õrùn: nitoripe bi enia tilẹ gbiyanju ati wadi rẹ̀, sibẹ kì yio le ri i; ati pẹlupẹlu bi ọlọgbọ́n enia rò lati wadi rẹ̀, sibẹ kì yio lè ridi rẹ̀.

¹⁷ Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.