Ecclesiastes
8 Hu nao olsem wise man? Hu nao savve lo ansa blo wanfala problem?* Wisdom blo man hem mekem feis blo hem shaen and softim lukluk lo feis blo hem.
2 Mi sei: “Obeyim olketa komand blo king+ bikos lo promis* wea iufala mekem front lo God.+ 3 No hariap for go aot from front lo hem.+ No sapotim eni samting wea nogud+ bikos hem savve duim eniting wea hem laek for duim. 4 From no eniwan savve changem wanem king talem,+ hu nao savve sei lo hem, ‘Wat nao iu duim ia?’”
5 Man wea obeyim datfala komandment bae no kasem nogud samting,+ and heart wea wise bae savve lo stret taem and stret wei for duim samting.*+ 6 Evri samting garem taem and hao for deal witim,*+ bikos trabol wea olketa man kasem hem staka tumas. 7 From no eniwan savve wat nao bae happen, hu nao savve talem hem hao samting bae happen?
8 Olsem man no garem paoa ovarem brith* or savve holem bak brith, no eniwan garem paoa ovarem day wea hem dae.+ Olsem olketa bae no letem eniwan for go bak lo taem blo war, wicked fasin bae no letem olketa wea duim wicked samting for ranawe.*
9 Mi lukim evri samting hia and heart blo mi ting raonem evri waka wea pipol duim anda lo sun. Lo full taem wea man rul ovarem man, pipol safa* nomoa.+ 10 And mi lukim olketa berem wicked pipol, olketa wea savve go insaed and kamaot from datfala holy ples. Bat no longtaem nomoa pipol forgetim olketa insaed datfala taon wea olketa duim datwan.+ Diswan tu hem iusles nomoa.
11 Bikos olketa no kwiktaem for panisim man wea duim nogud samting,+ heart blo olketa man no fraet for duim nogud samting.+ 12 Nomata man wea duim sin hem duim nogud samting wan handred taems and hem gohed laef for longtaem, mi savve dat olketa wea fraet lo tru God bae gogo olketa kasem gud samting, bikos olketa fraet lo hem.+ 13 Bat gogo wicked man bae kasem nogud samting,+ and hem bae no laef for longtaem olsem wanfala shadow+ bikos hem nating fraet lo God.
14 Wanfala iusles samting* hem happen lo earth: Pipol treatim raeteous pipol olsem olketa duim wicked samting,+ and olketa treatim wicked pipol olsem olketa duim raeteous samting.+ Mi sei diswan tu hem iusles nomoa.
15 So mi talem pipol for hapi,+ bikos no eni nara samting anda lo sun hem beta winim for man hem kaikai, drink, and hapi. Hem shud duim olketa samting hia taem hem waka hard lo olketa day wea hem laef,+ wea tru God givim lo hem anda lo sun.
16 Mi disaed strong insaed heart blo mi for kasem wisdom and for lukim evri samting* wea gohed lo earth,+ and mi no sleep lo day and lo naet tu.* 17 Then mi ting raonem evri samting wea tru God duim, and mi luksavve dat olketa man no savve minim wat hem happen anda lo sun.+ Nomata olketa man waka hard for minim, olketa no savve minim datwan. Nomata sapos olketa claimim dat olketa wise and savve lo datwan, olketa no really minim datwan.+