Ecclesiastes 5
1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
汝ヱホバの室にいたる時にはその足を愼め 進みよりて聴聞は愚なる者の犠牲にまさる 彼等はその惡をおこなひをることを知ざるなり
2 Do not be quick to speak, and do not be hasty in your heart to utter a word before God. After all, God is in heaven and you are on earth. So let your words be few.
汝神の前にありては軽々し口を開くなかれ 心を攝めて妄に言をいだすなかれ 其は神は天にいまし汝は地にをればなり 然ば汝言詞を少からしめよ
3 As a dream comes through many cares, so the speech of a fool comes with many words.
夫夢は事の繁多によりて生じ 愚なる者の聲は言の衆多によりて識るなり
4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.
汝神に誓願をかけなば之を還すことを怠るなかれ 神は愚なる者を悦びたまはざるなり 汝はそのかけし誓願を還すべし
5 It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.
誓願をかけてこれを還さざるよりは寧ろ誓願をかけざるは汝に善し
6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
汝の口をもて汝の身に罪を犯さしむるたかれ 亦使者の前に其は過誤なりといふべからず 恐くは神汝の言を怒り汝の手の所爲を滅したまはん
7 For as many dreams bring futility, so do many words. Therefore, fear God.
夫夢多ければ空たる事多し 言詞の多きもまた然り 汝ヱホバを畏め
8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
汝國の中に貧き者を虐遇る事および公道と公義を枉ることあるを見るもその事あるを怪むなかれ 其はその位高き人よりも高き者ありてその人を伺へばなり又其等よりも高き者あるなり
9 The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
國の利益は全く是にあり 即ち王者が農事に勤むるにあるなり
10 He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.
銀を好む者は銀に飽こと無し 豊富ならんことを好む者は得るところ有らず 是また空なり
11 When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
貨財増せばこれを食む者も増すなり その所有主は唯日にこれを看るのみ その外に何の益かあらん
12 The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.
労する者はその食ふところは多きも少きも快く睡るなり 然れども富者はその貨財の多きがために睡ることを得せず
13 There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
我また日の下に患の大なる者あるを見たり すなはち財寶のこれを蓄ふる者の身に害をおよぼすことある是なり
14 or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
その財寶はまた災難によりて失落ことあり 然ばその人子を挙ることあらんもその手には何物もあることなし
15 As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
人は母の胎より出て釆りしごとくにまた裸體にして皈りゆくべし その労苦によりて得たる者を毫厘も手にとりて携へゆくことを得ざるなり
16 This too is a grievous evil: Exactly as a man is born, so he will depart. What does he gain as he toils for the wind?
人は全くその來りしごとくにまた去ゆかざるを得ず 是また患の大なる者なり 抑風を追て労する者何の益をうること有んや
17 Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.
人は生命の涯黒暗の中に食ふことを爲す また憂愁多かり 疾病身にあり 憤怒あり
18 Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat and drink, and to find satisfaction in all the labor one does under the sun during the few days of life that God has given him—for this is his lot.
視よ我は斯観たり 人の身にとりて善かつ美なる者は 神にたまはるその生命の極食飮をなし 且その日の下に労して働ける労苦によりて得るところの福禄を身に享るの事なり是その分なればなり
19 Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God.
何人によらず神がこれに富と財を與へてそれに食ことを得せしめ またその分を取りその労苦によりて快樂を得ることをせさせたまふあれば その事は神の賜物たるなり
20 For a man seldom considers the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.
かかる人はその年齢の日を憶ゆること深からず 其は神これが心の喜ぶところにしたがひて應ることを爲したまへばなり
