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 feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know 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。
Cause not thy mouth to hasten, and let not thy heart hasten to bring out a word before God, for God is in the heavens, and thou on the 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 the dream hath come by abundance of business, and the voice of a fool by abundance 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 complete it, for there is no pleasure in fools; that which thou vowest — complete.
5 你许愿不还，不如不许。
Better that thou do not vow, than that thou dost vow and dost not complete.
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 cause thy flesh to sin, nor say before the messenger, that 'it [is] an error,' why is God wroth because of thy voice, and hath destroyed 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 the abundance of dreams both vanities and words abound; 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 oppression of the poor, and violent taking away of judgment and righteousness thou seest in a province, do not marvel at the matter, for a higher than the high is observing, and high ones [are] over them.
9 况且地的益处归众人，就是君王也受田地的供应。
And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.
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。
Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied [with] silver, nor he who is in love with stores [with] increase. Even this [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！
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of 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 the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering 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 painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
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。
And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and 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 out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go 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？
And this also [is] a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage [is] to him who laboureth 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 in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.
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。
Lo, that which I have seen: [It is] good, because beautiful, to eat, and to drink, and to see good in all one's labour that he laboureth at under the sun, the number of the days of his life that God hath given to 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。
Every man also to whom God hath given wealth and riches, and hath given him power to eat of it, and to accept his portion, and to rejoice in his labour, this is a 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 doth not much remember the days of his life, for God is answering through the joy of his heart.
