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.
Kajti vse to sem preudaril v svojem srcu, celo da vse to oznanim, da so pravični in modri in njihova dela v roki Boga. Noben človek ne spozna bodisi ljubezni ali sovraštva po vsem, kar je pred njimi.
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.
Vse stvari pridejo podobno k vsem: je en dogodek pravičnemu in zlobnemu; dobremu, čistemu in nečistemu; tistemu, ki daruje in tistemu, ki ne daruje; kakor je dobri, tako je grešnik; in kdor prisega, kakor tisti, ki se prisege boji.
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)
To je zlo med vsemi stvarmi, ki so storjene pod soncem, da je en dogodek za vse. Da, tudi srce človeških sinov je polno zla in dokler živijo je v njihovih srcih norost, potem pa gredo k smrti.
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.
Kajti za tistega, ki je pridružen k vsem živim, je upanje, kajti živ pes je boljši kakor mrtev lev.
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.
Kajti živi vedo, da bodo umrli, toda mrtvi ne vedo ničesar niti nimajo več nobene nagrade, kajti spomin nanje je pozabljen.
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.
Prav tako je njihova ljubezen, njihovo sovraštvo in njihova zavist sedaj izginila niti nimajo več deleža na veke v katerikoli stvari, ki je storjena pod soncem.
7 So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.
Pojdi svojo pot, svoj kruh jej z radostjo in svoje vino pij z veselim srcem, kajti Bog sedaj sprejema tvoja dela.
8 Let your garments be white at all times, and let not oil be absent from your head.
Naj bodo tvoje obleke vedno bele in tvoji glavi naj ne manjka mazila.
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.
Živi radostno, z ženo, ki jo ljubiš, vse dni življenja svoje ničevosti, ki ti je dana pod soncem vse dni tvoje ničevosti, kajti to je tvoj delež v tem življenju in v tvojem trudu, ki se ga lotevaš pod soncem.
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)
Karkoli tvoja roka najde, da stori, to stôri z vso svojo močjo, kajti v grobu, kamor greš, ni dela, niti naklepa, niti spoznanja, niti modrosti. (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.
Vrnil sem se in videl pod soncem, da tek ni za nagle, niti bitka za močne, niti kruh za modre, niti bogastva za ljudi spoznanja, niti celo naklonjenost veščim ljudem, temveč se čas in priložnost dogajata njim vsem.
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.
Kajti tudi človek ne pozna svojega časa. Kakor ribe, ki so ujete v zlo mrežo in kakor ptice, ki so ujete v zanko, tako so človeški sinovi ujeti v zlobnem času, ko le-ta nenadoma pade nanje.
13 This wisdom, likewise, I have seen under the sun, and I have examined it intensely.
Tudi to modrost sem videl pod soncem in ta se mi je zdela 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.
bilo je majhno mesto in znotraj njega malo ljudi in zoper njega je prišel velik kralj, ga oblegal in zoper njega zgradil velike branike.
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.
Torej v njem je bil najden reven, moder človek in on je s svojo modrostjo osvobodil mesto, vendar se noben človek ni spominjal tega ubogega moža.
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?
Potem sem rekel: »Modrost je boljša kakor moč; kljub temu je modrost revnega moža prezirana in njegove besede niso slišane.«
17 The words of the wise are heard in silence, more so than the outcry of a prince among the foolish.
Besede modrih ljudi se bolj slišijo v tišini kakor vpitje tistega, ki vlada med bedaki.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war. And whoever offends in one thing, shall lose many good things.
Modrost je boljša kakor bojna orožja, toda en grešnik uničuje mnogo dobrega.
