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A Time for Everything

  1There is a time for everything,
   and a season for every activity under the heavens:

   2a time to be born and a time to die,
   a time to plant and a time to uproot,
   3a time to kill and a time to heal,
   a time to tear down and a time to build,
   4a time to weep and a time to laugh,
   a time to mourn and a time to dance,
   5a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
   a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
   6a time to search and a time to give up,
   a time to keep and a time to throw away,
   7a time to tear and a time to mend,
   a time to be silent and a time to speak,
   8a time to love and a time to hate,
   a time for war and a time for peace.
 9What do workers gain from their toil? 10I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet⚓ no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.
  15Whatever is has already been,
   and what will be has been before;
   and God will call the past to account.⚓
  16And I saw something else under the sun:
  In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
   in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
 17I said to myself,
  “God will bring into judgment
   both the righteous and the wicked,
  for there will be a time for every activity,
   a time to judge every deed.”
 18I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath⚓ ; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
 22So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?

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Dũ Ramứh Yiang Sursĩ Anoat Cỡt Ngư

 1Dũ ramứh tâng cốc cutễq nâi bữn ngư, ariang Yiang Sursĩ khoiq anoat dŏq. 2Án anoat toâq ngư canỡt cớp toâq ngư cuchĩt, toâq ngư chóh cớp toâq ngư rơq; 3toâq ngư cachĩt cớp toâq ngư tahâu; toâq ngư tŏ́h cớp toâq ngư patứng tamái; 4toâq ngư nhiam cớp toâq ngư cacháng; toâq ngư tanúh cớp toâq ngư puan sarai; 5toâq ngư yiah tamáu cớp toâq ngư bốq loah tamái; toâq ngư hũn kĩau cớp toâq ngư tỡ bữn hũn kĩau; 6toâq ngư ramóh cớp toâq ngư pứt; toâq ngư parỗm pachứm cớp toâq ngư cutiang táh; 7toâq ngư háq cớp toâq ngư yĩh; toâq ngư rangiac cớp toâq ngư táq ntỡng; 8toâq ngư ayooq cớp toâq ngư kêt; toâq ngư yúc cớp toâq ngư ien khễ.
  9Máh cũai ca táq ranáq ntâng, ntrớu cóng yỗn alới? 10Cứq khoiq hữm Yiang Sursĩ yỗn dũ náq cũai roap mpỗl ntâng. 11Án anoat ngư pĩeiq lứq yỗn dũ ramứh. Án táq yỗn cũai ễr áiq yoc ễ dáng tễ dỡi mbŏ́q cớp dỡi chumát; ma cũai tỡ têq dáng nheq tễ máh ranáq án táq. 12Yuaq ngkíq, cứq ỡt chanchớm cóq cũai cutóng táq dũ ranáq yỗn cỡt bũi pahỡm cớp o lứq, bo noâng tamoong. 13Dũ náq hái cóq cha nguaiq cớp sâng bũi hỡr tễ ranáq hái táq, yuaq ranáq ki cỡt crơng mpon tễ Yiang Sursĩ yỗn hái.
  14Cứq dáng samoât lứq dũ ranáq Yiang Sursĩ táq lứq ỡt mantái níc. Cũai tỡ têq tữm muoi ramứh ntrớu, tỡ la aloŏh muoi ramứh ntrớu tễ ŏ́c ki. Yiang Sursĩ táq ngkíq dŏq yỗn máh cũai yám noap án. 15Dũ ranáq ca cỡt tâng dỡi sanua, ki khoiq cỡt tâng dỡi mbŏ́q chơ, cớp lứq cỡt sĩa tâng dỡi chumát. Yiang Sursĩ yỗn máh ranáq ki cỡt loah ĩn khoiq cỡt chơ.

Ŏ́c Tỡ Tanoang Tâng Cốc Cutễq Nâi

 16Hỡn tễ ki ễn, cứq khoiq hữm tâng cốc cutễq nâi bữn ranáq sâuq clũom chíq ranáq rasữq tanoang tapứng cớp tanoang o. 17Cứq chanchớm neq: Nỡ‑ra Yiang Sursĩ rasữq cũai tanoang o cớp sữq cũai loâi hỡ; yuaq dũ ranáq cớp dũ ramứh ca cỡt, la Yiang Sursĩ toâp anoat yỗn cỡt. 18Cứq chanchớm Yiang Sursĩ ntôm chim cũai, dŏq apáh yỗn alới dáng cũai tỡ bữn mpha ntrớu tễ charán. 19Máh cũai la machớng máh charán, cỗ cóq cuchĩt nheq. Muoi noaq cũai cuchĩt machớng muoi lám charán cuchĩt tê, yuaq tỗp alới tangứh machớng nheq. Ngkíq cũai tỡ bữn o hỡn tễ charán. Ŏ́c ki tỡ bữn cỡt kia ntrớu. 20Máh cũai cớp máh charán lứq parchu muoi ntốq nheq; yuaq alới cỡt tễ phốn cutễq, ngkíq alới cỡt loah phốn cutễq sĩa. 21Tỡ bữn noau têq dáng raviei cũai bữn chỗn chu paloŏng, tỡ la raviei charán sễng chu pưn cutễq. 22Yuaq ngkíq, cứq chanchớm o lứq yỗn hái bũi hỡr cớp ranáq hái khoiq táq. Tỡ bữn ranáq canŏ́h noâng hái têq táq, yuaq hái tỡ bữn dáng ranáq ntrớu noâq ễ cỡt toâq vớt hái cuchĩt.