传道书 5
1 你到 神的殿要谨慎脚步；因为近前听，胜过愚昧人献祭，他们本不知道所做的是恶。
Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.
2 你在 神面前不可冒失开口，也不可心急发言；因为 神在天上，你在地下，所以你的言语要寡少。
Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
3 事务多，就令人做梦；言语多，就显出愚昧。
Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
4 你向 神许愿，偿还不可迟延，因他不喜悦愚昧人，所以你许的愿应当偿还。
If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.
5 你许愿不还，不如不许。
And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.
6 不可任你的口使肉体犯罪，也不可在祭司面前说是错许了。为何使 神因你的声音发怒，败坏你手所做的呢？
Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.
7 多梦和多言，其中多有虚幻，你只要敬畏 神。
Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.
8 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义公平的事，不要因此诧异；因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。
If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:
9 况且地的益处归众人，就是君王也受田地的供应。
Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.
10 贪爱银子的，不因得银子知足；贪爱丰富的，也不因得利益知足。这也是虚空。
A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
11 货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！
Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
12 劳碌的人不拘吃多吃少，睡得香甜；富足人的丰满却不容他睡觉。
Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13 我见日光之下有一宗大祸患，就是财主积存资财，反害自己。
There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
14 因遭遇祸患，这些资财就消灭；那人若生了儿子，手里也一无所有。
For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
15 他怎样从母胎赤身而来，也必照样赤身而去；他所劳碌得来的，手中分毫不能带去。
As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
16 他来的情形怎样，他去的情形也怎样。这也是一宗大祸患。他为风劳碌有什么益处呢？
A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
17 并且他终身在黑暗中吃喝，多有烦恼，又有病患呕气。
All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
18 我所见为善为美的，就是人在 神赐他一生的日子吃喝，享受日光之下劳碌得来的好处，因为这是他的分。
This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.
19 神赐人资财丰富，使他能以吃用，能取自己的分，在他劳碌中喜乐，这乃是 神的恩赐。
And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
20 他不多思念自己一生的年日，因为 神应他的心使他喜乐。
For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,
