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OET (OET-LV) But the god said to_him:
Foolish, on_this the night, requesting of you the soul of_you, and what you_prepared, to_whom it_will_be?
OET (OET-RV) But God said to him, ‘How foolish! Tonight I’ll be requesting your soul and then who will everything you stored up go to?’
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / quotesinquotes
εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός, ἄφρων, ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ, τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ; ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας, τίνι ἔσται?
said but ˱to˲_him ¬the God foolish ˱on˲_this ¬the night the soul ˱of˲_you (Some words not found in SR-GNT: εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός ἄφρων ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου αἰτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας τίνι ἔσται)
If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate this so that there is not a quotation within a quotation, and then another quotation within that one. Alternate translation: “But God told him that he was very foolish, because he was going to die that night, and the things he had stored up would belong to someone else”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / nominaladj
ἄφρων
foolish
God is using the adjective foolish as a noun in order to indicate what kind of person this man is. ULT adds the term one to show this. Your language may use adjectives in the same way. If not, you could translate the term with an equivalent phrase. Alternate translation: “You foolish person”
ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ, τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ
˱on˲_this ¬the night the soul ˱of˲_you (Some words not found in SR-GNT: εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός ἄφρων ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου αἰτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας τίνι ἔσται)
This is an indefinite construction, such as many languages use, but God is the actual subject. Alternate translation: “I am demanding your soul from you this very night”
Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom
ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ, τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ
˱on˲_this ¬the night the soul ˱of˲_you (Some words not found in SR-GNT: εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός ἄφρων ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου αἰτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας τίνι ἔσται)
The term soul means the life of a person. God is using the same term as the man did, but with a different meaning, to show that he was foolish to have such confidence in his possessions. Alternate translation: “you are going to lose your life this very night”
Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / euphemism
τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ
the soul ˱of˲_you (Some words not found in SR-GNT: εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός ἄφρων ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου αἰτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας τίνι ἔσται)
This expression speaks about death in a discreet way. Alternate translation: “you are going to die”
Note 5 topic: figures-of-speech / rquestion
ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας, τίνι ἔσται?
what and ˱you˲_prepared ˱to˲_whom ˱it˲_will_be
God does not expect the man to tell him who will inherit his things. Rather, God is using the question as a teaching tool, to make the man realize that he could not count on possessing those things, and so he was wrong to put his confidence in them. If it would be helpful in your language, you could translate these words as a statement or an exclamation. Alternate translation: “the things you have stored up will belong to someone else!”
12:13-21 This parable shows the danger of trusting in riches instead of in God.
OET (OET-LV) But the god said to_him:
Foolish, on_this the night, requesting of you the soul of_you, and what you_prepared, to_whom it_will_be?
OET (OET-RV) But God said to him, ‘How foolish! Tonight I’ll be requesting your soul and then who will everything you stored up go to?’
Note: The OET-RV is still only a first draft, and so far only a few words have been (mostly automatically) matched to the Hebrew or Greek words that they’re translated from.
Acknowledgements: The SR Greek text, lemmas, morphology, and VLT gloss are all thanks to the SR-GNT.