LOGOSby Kai'Ros
Draft translation under pastoral review — Nsɛmmisa/review welcome How this is governed
18px

Ecclesiastes

Chapter 9

KJV · Textus Receptus

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Asante Twi

1Yei nyinaa na mesusuu wɔ m'akoma mu sɛ mɛda ne nyinaa adi, sɛ ateneneefoɔ, ne anyansafoɔ, ne wɔn nnwuma, wɔ Onyankopɔn nsam: onipa biara nnim sɛ ɔdɔ anaa ɔtan na ɛda n'anim.Under pastoral review
2Adeɛ korɔ na ɛto wɔn nyinaa: asɛm baako na ɛto ateneneefoɔ, ne adebɔneyɛfoɔ; wɔn a wɔyɛ papa ne wɔn a wɔn ho te, ne wɔn a wɔn ho nte; deɛ ɔbɔ afɔreɛ, ne deɛ ɔnnyɛ afɔrebɔ: sɛdeɛ ɔpapafoɔ teɛ, saa ara na ɔbɔnefoɔ teɛ; na deɛ ɔka ntam, sɛ deɛ ɔsuro ntam.Under pastoral review
3Yei yɛ bɔne wɔ nneɛma nyinaa a wɔyɛ wɔ owia ase mu, sɛ asɛm baako na ɛto wɔn nyinaa: aane, bɔne nso ahyɛ nnipa mma akoma ma, na abɔdamsɛm wɔ wɔn akoma mu ɛberɛ a wɔte ase, na ɛno akyi wɔkɔ awufoɔ nkyɛn.Under pastoral review
4Ɛfiri sɛ deɛ wɔaka no abom ne ateasefoɔ nyinaa no wɔ anidasoɔ: ɛfiri sɛ ɔkraman a ɔte ase yɛ sene gyata a wawu.Under pastoral review
5Ɛfiri sɛ ateasefoɔ nim sɛ wɔbɛwu: nanso awufoɔ nnim biribiara, na wɔnni akatua biara bio; ɛfiri sɛ wɔn werɛ afiri wɔn nkaeɛ.Under pastoral review
6Wɔn dɔ, ne wɔn ɔtan, ne wɔn ahoɔyaw nso, ayera seesei; na wɔnni kyɛfa biara bio daa wɔ biribiara a wɔyɛ wɔ owia ase mu.Under pastoral review
7Kɔ wo kwan so, fa anigyeɛ di w'aduane, na fa akoma a ani agye nom wo nsã; ɛfiri sɛ Onyankopɔn agye wo nnwuma atom seesei.Under pastoral review
8Ma wo ntadeɛ nyɛ fitaa daa; na mma ngo mmɔ wo tiri.Under pastoral review
9Wo ne wo yere a wodɔ no ntena ase anigyeɛ mu w'ahuhudeɛ nkwa nna nyinaa, deɛ wama wo wɔ owia ase, w'ahuhudeɛ nna nyinaa: ɛfiri sɛ ɛno ne wo kyɛfa wɔ nkwa yi mu, ne w'adwuma a woyɛ wɔ owia ase mu.Under pastoral review
10Biribiara a wo nsa bɛnya sɛ ɔbɛyɛ no, fa w'ahoɔden nyinaa yɛ; ɛfiri sɛ adwuma biara, anaa nhyehyɛeɛ, anaa nimdeɛ, anaa nyansa nni damena mu, baabi a worekɔ no.Under pastoral review
11Mesanee, na mehunuu wɔ owia ase, sɛ mmirikatuo nnyɛ ahoɔharefoɔ dea, na ɔko nso nnyɛ ahoɔdenfoɔ dea, na aduane nso nnyɛ anyansafoɔ dea, na ahonyadeɛ nso nnyɛ nteaseɛfoɔ dea, na adom nso nnyɛ animdefoɔ dea; na mmom berɛ ne akwanhyia na ɛto wɔn nyinaa.Under pastoral review
12Ɛfiri sɛ onipa nso nnim ne berɛ: sɛ mpataa a wɔkyere wɔn wɔ asau bɔne mu, ne sɛ nnomaa a wɔyi wɔn afidie mu; saa ara na afidie yi nnipa mma wɔ berɛ bɔne mu, ɛberɛ a ɛtɔ wɔn so mpofirim.Under pastoral review
13Saa nyansa yi nso na mahunu wɔ owia ase, na ɛyɛɛ me kɛseɛ:Under pastoral review
14Kuropɔn ketewa bi wɔ hɔ, na nnipa kakraa bi wɔ mu; na ɔhene kɛseɛ bi baa ne so, na ɔtwaa ho hyiaeɛ, na ɔsii aban akɛseɛ tiaa no:Under pastoral review
15Na wɔhunuu ohiani nyansafoɔ bi wɔ mu, na ɔde ne nyansa gyee kuropɔn no; nanso obiara ankae saa ohiani no.Under pastoral review
16Afei mekaa sɛ, Nyansa yɛ sene ahoɔden: nanso wɔbu ohiani nyansa animtiaa, na wɔntie ne nsɛm.Under pastoral review
17Wɔtie anyansafoɔ nsɛm wɔ dinn mu sene deɛ ɔdi nkwaseafoɔ so no nteateam.Under pastoral review
18Nyansa yɛ sene akode: nanso ɔbɔnefoɔ baako sɛe papa pii.Under pastoral review

18 VERSES · LOGOS BY KAI'ROS