Ecclesiastes
3 Taem hem stap for evri samting,
Taem hem stap for evri samting wea happen anda lo skae:
2 Taem for born and taem for dae.
Taem for plant and taem for pullimaot wat olketa plantim.
3 Taem for killim dae and taem for heal.
Taem for distroe and taem for buildim bak.
4 Taem for krae and taem for laflaf.
Taem for krae big and taem for dance.*
5 Taem for torowem olketa ston and taem for hipimap olketa ston.
Taem for hagem narawan and taem for no hagem narawan.
6 Taem for lukaotem samting and taem for givap for lukaotem samting.
Taem for keepim samting and taem for torowem samting.
7 Taem for tearem samting+ and taem for soengim bak samting.
Taem for no toktok+ and taem for toktok.+
8 Taem for love and taem for heit.+
Taem for war and taem for peace.
9 Wat nao man wea waka hem kasem from evri hard waka blo hem?+ 10 Mi lukim finis waka wea God givim lo olketa son blo man mekem olketa busy lo hem. 11 Hem mekem evri samting luk naes tumas* lo stret taem blo olketa.+ Hem putim wei for laef olowe insaed heart blo olketa man tu. Nomata olsem, olketa man bae hard for faendaot lo evri waka wea tru God hem duim from start go kasem end.
12 Mi luksavve dat no eniting hem beta winim for olketa hapi and for duim gud samting lo laef blo olketa,+ 13 and tu, for each wan shud kaikai and drink and enjoyim evri hard waka blo hem. Diswan hem present from God.+
14 Mi realizim dat evri samting wea tru God wakem bae stap for olowe. No eniting for addim lo datwan and no eniting for aotem from datwan. Tru God hem wakem datwan olsem nao, mekem pipol bae fraet lo hem.+
15 Eni samting wea happen distaem hem happen bifor tu, and eni samting wea bae happen hem happen bifor tu,+ bat tru God hem lukaotem samting wea olketa man aftarem.*
16 Mi lukim diswan tu anda lo sun: Lo ples wea justice stap, wicked fasin nao stap, and lo ples wea raeteous fasin stap, wicked fasin nao stap.+ 17 So mi sei insaed heart blo mi: “Tru God bae judgem pipol wea raeteous and pipol wea wicked,+ bikos taem hem stap for evri waka and evri samting wea man mas duim.”
18 Mi sei olsem tu insaed heart blo mi abaotem olketa son blo man: “Tru God bae testim olketa for olketa seleva luksavve dat olketa semsem olsem animal.” 19 Bikos gogo samting wea happen lo olketa man hem happen lo olketa animal tu.+ Man hem dae, and animal tu hem dae, and tufala evriwan garem sem brith blo laef.*+ So man hem no winim olketa animal bikos evriting hem iusles nomoa. 20 Evriwan bae go lo sem ples.+ Evriwan kam from dust,+ and evriwan bae go bak lo dust.+ 21 Hu nao really savve sapos brith blo laef* blo olketa man hem go ap, and sapos brith blo laef* blo olketa animal hem go daon lo earth?+ 22 And mi lukim dat no eni samting hem beta winim for man enjoyim waka blo hem,+ from datwan hem reward* blo hem, bikos hu nao bae showim hem samting wea bae happen afta hem dae?+