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 prove you with mirth, and behold you good: and, behold, this is also vanity.
2 我指嬉笑说：“这是狂妄。”论喜乐说：“有何功效呢？”
I said to laughter, Madness: and to mirth, Why do you this:
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。
And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as [with] wine, (though my heart guided [me] in wisdom, ) and [I desired] to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life.
4 我为自己动大工程，建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，
I enlarged my work; I built 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 orchards, and planted in them every kind of fruit tree.
6 挖造水池，用以浇灌嫩小的树木。
I made me pools of water, to water from them the timber-bearing wood.
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 got servants and maidens, and servants were born to me in the house: also I had abundant possession of flocks and herds, beyond all who 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。
Moreover I collected for myself both silver and gold also, and the peculiar treasures of kings and provinces: I procured me singing men and singing women, and delights of the sons of men, a butler and female cupbearers.
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 became great, and advanced beyond all that were before in Jerusalem: also my wisdom was established to me.
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 whatever mine eyes desired, I withheld not from them, I withheld not my heart from all my mirth: for my heart rejoiced in all my labor; and this was my portion of all my labor.
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。
And I looked on all my works which my hands had wrought, and on my labor which I laboured to perform: and behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit, and there is no advantage 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。
Then I looked on to see wisdom, and madness, and folly: for who is the man who will follow after counsel, in all things where in he employs it?
13 我便看出智慧胜过愚昧，如同光明胜过黑暗。
And I saw that wisdom excels folly, as much as light excels 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's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I perceived, even I, that one event shall happen 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。
And I said in my heart, As the event of the fool is, so shall it be to me, even to me: and to what purpose have I gained wisdom? I said moreover in my heart, This is also vanity, because the fool speaks of his abundance.
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 there is no remembrance of the wise man with the fool for ever; forasmuch as now [in] the coming days all things are forgotten: and how shall the wise man die with 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 was wrought under the sun was evil before me: for all is vanity and waywardness of spirit.
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 the whole of my labor which I took under the sun; because I must leave it to the man who will come 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 knows whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? and whether he will have power over all my labor in which I laboured, and wherein I grew wise under the sun? this is also 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。
so I went about to dismiss from my heart all my labor 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 [such] a man that his labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in fortitude; [yet] this man shall give his portion to one who has not laboured therein. This is also vanity and 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 it happens to a man in all his labor, and in the purpose of his heart wherein he labors 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 days] of sorrows, and vexation of spirit is his; in the night also his heart rests not. This is also 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。
A man has nothing [really] good to eat, and to drink, and to show his soul [as] good in his trouble. 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 shall eat, or who shall drink, without him?
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 [God] has given to the man who is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but he has given to the sinner trouble, to add and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God; for this is also vanity and waywardness of spirit.
