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。
Look well to thy feet, when thou goest to the house of God, and draw nigh to hear, rather than to offer sacrifice as fools. For they consider not that they do evil.
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。
Be not hasty with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be swift to utter any thing 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。
For a dream cometh with much bustle, and a fool's voice with a multitude of words.
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。
When thou vowest a vow to God, delay not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools. Pay that which thou hast vowed.
5 你许愿不还，不如不许。
Better is it that thou shouldst not vow than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.
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？
Suffer not thy mouth to bring punishment on thy flesh, and say not before the angel, “It was a mistake.” Wherefore should God be angry on account of thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
7 多梦和多言，其中多有虚幻，你只要敬畏 神。
For in a multitude of dreams is a multitude of vanities; so also in a multitude of words; but fear thou 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 seest oppression of the poor, and justice and equity perverted in a province, be not alarmed at the matter. For over the high there is a higher, who watcheth, and there is one higher than they all.
9 况且地的益处归众人，就是君王也受田地的供应。
An advantage to a land in all respects is a king over cultivated ground.
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。
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and he that loveth riches shall have no profit from them. 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！
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage hath the owner thereof, save the beholding of them 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。
Sweet is the sleep of a laboring man, whether he have eaten little or much; but the repletion 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 a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, — riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt.
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 those riches perish by some calamity, and, if he have a son, there is nothing in his hand.
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 from his mother's womb naked, so shall he go away again, as he came, and shall take away nothing of his labor which he may carry in his hand.
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？
This is also a sore evil, that, in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit is there to him who toileth for wind?
17 并且他终身在黑暗中吃喝，多有烦恼，又有病患呕气。
Also all his days he ate in darkness, and had much grief and anxiety and vexation.
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。
Behold, what I have seen is, that it is good and proper for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor which he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him; for it 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。
To whatever man also God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him to enjoy them, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; 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 will not much remember the days of his life; for God answereth him with the joy of his heart.
