Bread Wey You Throw for Water
Throw your bread for water and share your portion reach plenty people, because you no sabi which wahala dey come. Person wey dey watch breeze no go ever plant. Plant for morning and evening, enjoy di light, remember say dark days dey front, and know say God go bring your youth come judgment.
11 1Throw your bread for inside water, because after plenty days you go find am again. 2Share portion give seven person, or even give eight, because you no know wetin bad thing fit happen for di land. 3If di cloud dem don full, dem go pour rain for ground; and if tree fall go south or go north, for di place wey e fall, na there e go lie. 4Anybody wey dey watch di wind no go ever plant, and anybody wey dey study di cloud no go ever harvest.
5Just as you no know di way wey wind dey pass, or how bone dey form for inside belle of woman wey get belle, na so you no fit know di work of God, wey dey make everything.
6Plant your seed for morning, and for evening no let your hand rest, because you no know which one go succeed—dis one or dat one—or whether di two of dem go do well togeda.
Light Dey Sweet
7Light dey sweet, and e dey make eye happy to see di sun.
8So if person live plenty years, make e dey happy for all of dem; but make e remember di days of darkness, because dem go plenty. Everything wey dey come na noting wey go quick pass.
9Rejoice, young man, for your young days, and make your heart give you gladness for di days of your youth. Waka for di ways of your heart and for wetin your eye dey see; but know sey for all dis things God go bring you come judgment.
10So comot vexation from your heart, and put pain commot from your body, because youth and di beginning of life na noting wey go quick pass.
