传道书 2
1 我心里说：“来吧，我以喜乐试试你，你好享福！”谁知，这也是虚空。
I said in my heart: 'Come now, I will try thee with mirth, and enjoy pleasure'; and, behold, this also was vanity.
2 我指嬉笑说：“这是狂妄。”论喜乐说：“有何功效呢？”
I said of laughter: 'It is mad'; and of mirth: 'What doth it accomplish?'
3 我心里察究，如何用酒使我肉体舒畅，我心却仍以智慧引导我；又如何持住愚昧，等我看明世人，在天下一生当行何事为美。
I searched in my heart how to pamper my flesh with wine, and, my heart conducting itself with wisdom, how yet to lay hold on folly, till I might see which it was best for the sons of men that they should do under the heaven the few days of their life.
4 我为自己动大工程，建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，
I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
5 修造园囿，在其中栽种各样果木树；
I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit;
6 挖造水池，用以浇灌嫩小的树木。
I made me pools of water, to water therefrom the wood springing up with trees;
7 我买了仆婢，也有生在家中的仆婢；又有许多牛群羊群，胜过以前在耶路撒冷众人所有的。
I acquired men-servants and maid-servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that were before me in Jerusalem;
8 我又为自己积蓄金银和君王的财宝，并各省的财宝；又得唱歌的男女和世人所喜爱的物，并许多的妃嫔。
I gathered me also silver and gold, and treasure such as kings and the provinces have as their own; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, women very many.
9 这样，我就日见昌盛，胜过以前在耶路撒冷的众人。我的智慧仍然存留。
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom stood me in stead.
10 凡我眼所求的，我没有留下不给它的；我心所乐的，我没有禁止不享受的；因我的心为我一切所劳碌的快乐，这就是我从劳碌中所得的分。
And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart had joy of all my labour; and this was my portion from all my labour.
11 后来，我察看我手所经营的一切事和我劳碌所成的功。谁知都是虚空，都是捕风；在日光之下毫无益处。
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
12 我转念观看智慧、狂妄，和愚昧。在王以后而来的人还能做什么呢？也不过行早先所行的就是了。
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness and folly; for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
13 我便看出智慧胜过愚昧，如同光明胜过黑暗。
Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
14 智慧人的眼目光明，愚昧人在黑暗里行。我却看明有一件事，这两等人都必遇见。
The wise man, his eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness. And I also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
15 我就心里说：“愚昧人所遇见的，我也必遇见，我为何更有智慧呢？”我心里说，这也是虚空。
Then said I in my heart: 'As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?' Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
16 智慧人和愚昧人一样，永远无人记念，因为日后都被忘记；可叹智慧人死亡，与愚昧人无异。
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will long ago have been forgotten. And how must the wise man die even as the fool!
17 我所以恨恶生命；因为在日光之下所行的事我都以为烦恼，都是虚空，都是捕风。
So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
18 我恨恶一切的劳碌，就是我在日光之下的劳碌，因为我得来的必留给我以后的人。
And I hated all my labour wherein I laboured under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
19 那人是智慧是愚昧，谁能知道？他竟要管理我劳碌所得的，就是我在日光之下用智慧所得的。这也是虚空。
And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
20 故此，我转想我在日光之下所劳碌的一切工作，心便绝望。
Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour wherein I had laboured under the sun.
21 因为有人用智慧、知识、灵巧所劳碌得来的，却要留给未曾劳碌的人为分。这也是虚空，也是大患。
For there is a man whose labour is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22 人在日光之下劳碌累心，在他一切的劳碌上得着什么呢？
For what hath a man of all his labour, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboureth under the sun?
23 因为他日日忧虑，他的劳苦成为愁烦，连夜间心也不安。这也是虚空。
For all his days are pains, and his occupation vexation; yea, even in the night his heart taketh not rest. This also is vanity.
24 人莫强如吃喝，且在劳碌中享福，我看这也是出于 神的手。
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
25 论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？
For who will eat, or who will enjoy, if not I?
26 神喜悦谁，就给谁智慧、知识，和喜乐；惟有罪人， 神使他劳苦，叫他将所收聚的、所堆积的归给 神所喜悦的人。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
For to the man that is good in His sight He giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner He giveth the task, to gather and to heap up, that he may leave to him that is good in the sight of God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
