Ecclesiastes 2
1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will try thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure. But behold, this also is vanity.
我心里说：“来吧，我以喜乐试试你，你好享福！”谁知，这也是虚空。
2 I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it?
我指嬉笑说：“这是狂妄。”论喜乐说：“有何功效呢？”
3 I searched in my heart how to cherish my flesh with wine, while practising my heart with wisdom; and how to lay hold on folly, till I should see what was that good for the children of men which they should do under the heavens all the days of their life.
我心里察究，如何用酒使我肉体舒畅，我心却仍以智慧引导我；又如何持住愚昧，等我看明世人，在天下一生当行何事为美。
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
我为自己动大工程，建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，
5 I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
修造园囿，在其中栽种各样果木树；
6 I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.
挖造水池，用以浇灌嫩小的树木。
7 I acquired servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all that had been in Jerusalem before me.
我买了仆婢，也有生在家中的仆婢；又有许多牛群羊群，胜过以前在耶路撒冷众人所有的。
8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.
我又为自己积蓄金银和君王的财宝，并各省的财宝；又得唱歌的男女和世人所喜爱的物，并许多的妃嫔。
9 And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
这样，我就日见昌盛，胜过以前在耶路撒冷的众人。我的智慧仍然存留。
10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them: I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour, and this was my portion from all my labour.
凡我眼所求的，我没有留下不给它的；我心所乐的，我没有禁止不享受的；因我的心为我一切所劳碌的快乐，这就是我从劳碌中所得的分。
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do [them]; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
后来，我察看我手所经营的一切事和我劳碌所成的功。谁知都是虚空，都是捕风；在日光之下毫无益处。
12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly; for what shall the man [do] that cometh after the king? — that which hath already been done.
我转念观看智慧、狂妄，和愚昧。在王以后而来的人还能做什么呢？也不过行早先所行的就是了。
13 And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.
我便看出智慧胜过愚昧，如同光明胜过黑暗。
14 The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness; but I myself also perceived that one event happeneth to them all.
智慧人的眼目光明，愚昧人在黑暗里行。我却看明有一件事，这两等人都必遇见。
15 And I said in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool so will it happen even to me; and why was I then so wise? Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
我就心里说：“愚昧人所遇见的，我也必遇见，我为何更有智慧呢？”我心里说，这也是虚空。
16 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?
智慧人和愚昧人一样，永远无人记念，因为日后都被忘记；可叹智慧人死亡，与愚昧人无异。
17 And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
我所以恨恶生命；因为在日光之下所行的事我都以为烦恼，都是虚空，都是捕风。
18 And I hated all my labour wherewith I had been toiling under the sun, because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
我恨恶一切的劳碌，就是我在日光之下的劳碌，因为我得来的必留给我以后的人。
19 And who knoweth whether he will be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour at which I have laboured, and wherein I have been wise under the sun. This also is vanity.
那人是智慧是愚昧，谁能知道？他竟要管理我劳碌所得的，就是我在日光之下用智慧所得的。这也是虚空。
20 Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.
故此，我转想我在日光之下所劳碌的一切工作，心便绝望。
21 For there is a man whose labour hath been with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skill, and who leaveth it to a man that hath not laboured therein, to be his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
因为有人用智慧、知识、灵巧所劳碌得来的，却要留给未曾劳碌的人为分。这也是虚空，也是大患。
22 For what will man have of all his labour and of the striving of his heart, wherewith he hath wearied himself under the sun?
人在日光之下劳碌累心，在他一切的劳碌上得着什么呢？
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
因为他日日忧虑，他的劳苦成为愁烦，连夜间心也不安。这也是虚空。
24 There is nothing good for man, but that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
人莫强如吃喝，且在劳碌中享福，我看这也是出于 神的手。
25 For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?
论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？
26 For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
神喜悦谁，就给谁智慧、知识，和喜乐；惟有罪人， 神使他劳苦，叫他将所收聚的、所堆积的归给 神所喜悦的人。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
