Ecclesiastes 9
1 [I saw] that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: yes, there is no man that knows either love or hatred, [though] all are before their face.
Doista sve ovo složih u srce svoje da bih rasvijetlio sve to, kako su pravedni i mudri i djela njihova u ruci Božijoj, a èovjek ne zna ni ljubavi ni mržnje od svega što je pred njim.
2 Vanity is in all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good, and to the bad; both to the pure, and to the impure; both to him that sacrifices, and to him that sacrifice not: as is the good, so is the sinner: as is the swearer, even so is he that fears an oath.
Sve biva svjema jednako: pravedniku biva kao bezbožniku, dobromu i èistomu kao neèistomu, onome koji prinosi žrtvu kao onome koji ne prinosi, kako dobromu tako grješniku, onome koji se kune kao onome koji se boji zakletve.
3 There is this evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes, the heart of the sons of men is filled with evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after that [they go] to the dead.
A to je najgore od svega što biva pod suncem što svjema jednako biva, te je i srce ljudsko puno zla, i ludost im je u srcu dok su živi, a potom umiru.
4 for who is he that has fellowship with all the living? there is hope [of him]: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
Jer ko æe biti izabran? U živijeh svijeh ima nadanja; i psu živu bolje je nego mrtvu lavu.
5 For the living will know that they shall die: but the dead know nothing, and there is no longer any reward to them; for their memory is lost.
Jer živi znaju da æe umrijeti, a mrtvi ne znaju ništa niti im ima plate, jer im se spomen zaboravio.
6 also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, have now perished; yes, there is no portion for them any more for ever in all that is done under the sun.
I ljubavi njihove i mržnje njihove i zavisti njihove nestalo je, i više nemaju dijela nigda ni u èemu što biva pod suncem.
7 Go, eat your bread with mirth, and drink your wine with a joyful heart; for now God has favourably accepted your works.
Hajde, jedi hljeb svoj s radošæu, i vesela srca pij vino svoje, jer su mila Bogu djela tvoja.
8 Let your garments be always white; and let not oil be lacking on your head.
Svagda neka su ti haljine bijele, i ulja na glavi tvojoj da se ne premièe.
9 And see life with the wife whom you love all the days of the life of your vanity, which are given you under the sun: for that is your portion in your life, and in your labour wherein you labour under the sun.
Uživaj život sa ženom koju ljubiš svega vijeka svojega taštega, koji ti je dat pod suncem za sve vrijeme taštine tvoje, jer ti je to dio u životu i od truda tvojega kojim se trudiš pod suncem.
10 Whatsoever your hand shall find to do, do with all your might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Hades wither you go. (Sheol h7585)
Sve što ti doðe na ruku da èiniš, èini po moguænosti svojoj, jer nema rada ni mišljenja ni znanja ni mudrosti u grobu u koji ideš. (Sheol h7585)
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.
Opet vidjeh pod suncem da nije do brzijeh trka, ni rat do hrabrijeh, ni hljeb do mudrijeh, ni bogatstvo do razumnijeh, ni dobra volja do vještijeh, nego da sve stoji do vremena i zgode.
12 For surely man also knows not his time: as fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as birds that are caught in a snare; even thus the sons of men are snared at an evil time, when it falls suddenly upon them.
Jer èovjek ne zna vremena svojega, nego kao što se ribe hvataju mrežom nesreænom i kao što se ptice hvataju pruglom, tako se hvataju sinovi èovjeèiji u zao èas, kad navali na njih iznenada.
13 This I also saw [to be] wisdom under the sun, and it is great before me:
Vidjeh i ovu mudrost pod suncem, koja mi se uèini velika:
14 [suppose there were] a little city, and few men in it; and there should come against it a great king, and surround it, and build great mounds against it;
Bijaše malen grad i u njemu malo ljudi; i doðe na nj velik car, i opkoli ga i naèini oko njega velike opkope.
15 and should find in it a poor wise man, and he should save the city through his wisdom: yet no man would remember that poor man.
A naðe se u njemu siromah èovjek mudar, koji izbavi grad mudrošæu svojom, a niko se ne sjeæaše toga siromaha èovjeka.
16 And I said Wisdom is better than power: yet the wisdom of the poor man is set at nothing, and his words not listened to.
Tada ja rekoh: bolja je mudrost nego snaga, ako se i ne maraše za mudrost onoga siromaha i rijeèi se njegove ne slušahu.
17 The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of them that rule in folly.
Rijeèi mudrijeh ljudi valja s mirom slušati više nego viku onoga koji zapovijeda meðu ludima.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: and one sinner will destroy much good.
Bolja je mudrost nego oružje ubojito; ali jedan grješnik kvari mnogo dobra.
