Ecclesiastes 5
1 Keep thy foot, whensoever thou goest to the house of God; and [when thou art] near to hear, let thy sacrifice [be] better than the gift of fools: for they know not that they are doing evil.
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 Be not hasty with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be swift to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven above, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy 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 For through the multitude of trial a dream comes; and a fool's voice is with a multitude of 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 Whenever thou shalt vow a vow to God, defer not to pay it; for [he has] no pleasure in fools: pay thou therefore whatsoever thou shalt have vowed.
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 that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
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 Suffer not thy mouth to lead thy flesh to sin; and say not in the presence of God, It was an error: lest God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the works of thy 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 [there is evil] in a multitude of dreams and vanities and many words: but fear thou 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 thou shouldest see the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of judgment and of justice in the land, wonder not at the matter: for [there is] a high one to watch over him that is high, and high ones 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 Also the abundance of the earth is for every one: the king [is dependent on] the tilled field.
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 that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity.
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 In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the right of beholding [it] 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 a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers him to 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 an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, [namely], wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.
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 And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and [the man] begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
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 he came forth naked from his mother's womb, he shall return back as he came, and he shall receive nothing for his labour, that it should go [with him] in his hand.
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 And this is also an evil infirmity: for as he came, so also shall he return: and what is his gain, for which he vainly labours?
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 Yea, all his days are in darkness, and in mourning, and much sorrow, and infirmity, and wrath.
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 Behold, I have seen good, that it is a fine thing [for a man] to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labour in which he may labour under the sun, [all] the number of the days of his life which God has given to him: for it is his portion.
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 Yea, and [as for] every man to whom God has given wealth and possessions, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to receive his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of 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 he shall not much remember the days of his life; for God troubles him in the mirth 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
