Ecclesiastes 9
1 I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.
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 But all things in the future remain uncertain, because all things happen equally to the just and to the impious, to the good and to the bad, to the pure and to the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and to those who despise sacrifices. As the good are, so also are sinners. As those who commit perjury are, so also are those who swear to the truth.
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 This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell. (questioned)
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 There is no one who lives forever, or who even has confidence in this regard. 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 know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten.
Jer živi znaju da æe umrijeti, a mrtvi ne znaju ništa niti im ima plate, jer im se spomen zaboravio.
6 Likewise, love and hatred and envy have all perished together, nor have they any place in this age and in the work which 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 So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.
Hajde, jedi hljeb svoj s radošæu, i vesela srca pij vino svoje, jer su mila Bogu djela tvoja.
8 Let your garments be white at all times, and let not oil be absent from your head.
Svagda neka su ti haljine bijele, i ulja na glavi tvojoj da se ne premièe.
9 Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your uncertain life which have been given to you under the sun, during all the time of your vanity. For this is your portion in life and in your labor, with which you labor 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 Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying. (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 turned myself toward another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the learned, nor grace to the skillful: but there is a time and an end for all these things.
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 Man does not know his own end. But, just as fish are caught with a hook, and birds are captured with a snare, so are men seized in the evil time, when it will suddenly overwhelm 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 wisdom, likewise, I have seen under the sun, and I have examined it intensely.
Vidjeh i ovu mudrost pod suncem, koja mi se uèini velika:
14 There was a small city, with a few men in it. There came against it a great king, who surrounded it, and built fortifications all around it, and the blockade was completed.
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 there was found within it, a poor and wise man, and he freed the city through his wisdom, and nothing was recorded afterward of 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 so, I declared that wisdom is better than strength. But how is it, then, that the wisdom of the poor man is treated with contempt, and his words are not heeded?
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 silence, more so than the outcry of a prince among the foolish.
Rijeèi mudrijeh ljudi valja s mirom slušati više nego viku onoga koji zapovijeda meðu ludima.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war. And whoever offends in one thing, shall lose many good things.
Bolja je mudrost nego oružje ubojito; ali jedan grješnik kvari mnogo dobra.
