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.
我わが心に言けらく 來れ我試みに汝をよろこばせんとす 汝逸樂をきはめよと 嗚呼是もまた空なりき
2 I said of laughter, Madness! and of mirth, What availeth it?
我笑を論ふ是は狂なり 快樂を論ふ是何の爲ところあらんやと
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.
我心に智慧を懐きて居つつ洒をもて肉身を肥さんと試みたり 又世の人は天が下におて生涯如何なる事をなさぼ善らんかを知んために我は愚なる事を行ふことをせり
4 I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;
我は大なる事業をなせり 我はわが爲に家を建て葡萄園を設け
5 I made me gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of every kind of fruit;
園をつくり囿をつくり 又菓のなる諸の樹を其處に植ゑ
6 I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood, where the trees are reared.
また水の塘池をつくりて樹木の生茂れる林に其より水を灌がしめたり
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.
我は僕婢を買得たり また家の子あり 我はまた凡て我より前にヱルサレムにをりし者よりも衆多の牛羊を有り
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.
我は金銀を積み 王等と國々の財寶を積あげたり また歌詠之男女を得 世の人の樂なる妻妾を多くえたり
9 And I became great, and increased more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
斯我は大なる者となり 我より前にヱルサレムにをりし諸の人よりも大になりぬ 吾智慧もまたわが身を離れざりき
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.
凡そわが目の好む者は我これを禁ぜす 凡そわが心の悦ぶ者は我これを禁ぜざりき 即ち我はわが諸の労苦によりて快樂を得たり 是は我が諸の労苦によりて得たるところの分なり
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.
我わが手にて爲たる諸の事業および我が労して事を爲たる労苦を顧みるに 皆空にして風を捕ふるが如くなりき 日の下には益となる者あらざるなり
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.
我また身を轉らして智慧と狂妄と愚癡とを観たり 抑王に嗣ぐところの人は如何なる事を爲うるや その既になせしところの事に過ざるべし
13 And I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as light excelleth darkness.
光明の黒暗にまさるがごとく智匙は愚癡に勝るなり 我これを暁れり
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.
智者の目はその頭にあり愚者は黒暗に歩む 然ど我しる具みな遇ふところの事は同一なり
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.
我心に謂けらく 愚者の遇ふところの事に我もまた遇ふべければ 我なんぞ智慧のまさる所あらんや 我また心に謂り是も亦空なるのみと
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?
夫智者も愚者と均しく永く世に記念らるることなし 來らん世にいたれば皆早く既に忘らるるなり 嗚呼智者の愚者とおなじく死るは是如何なる事ぞや
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.
是に於て我世にながらふることを厭へり 凡そ日の下に爲ところの事は我に惡く見ればなり 即ち皆空にして風を捕ふるがごとし
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.
我は日の下にわが労して諸の動作をなしたるを恨む其は我の後を嗣ぐ人にこれを遺さざるを得ざればなり
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.
其人の智愚は誰かこれを飢らん然るにその人は日の下に我が労して爲し智慧をこめて爲たる諸の工作を管理るにいたらん是また空なり
20 Then I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour wherewith I had laboured under the sun.
我身をめぐらし日の下にわが労して爲たる諸の動作のために望を失へり
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.
今茲に人あり 智慧と知識と才能をもて労して事をなさんに終には之がために労せざる人に一切を遺してその所有となさしめざるを得ざるなり 是また空にして大に惡し
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?
夫人はその日の下に労して爲ところの諸の動作とその心労によりて何の得ところ有るや
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail vexation: even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.
その世にある日には常に憂患あり その労苦は苦し その心は夜の間も安んずることあらず 是また空なり
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.
人の食飮をなしその労苦によりて心を樂しましむるは幸福なる事にあらず 是もまた神の手より出るなり 我これを見る
25 For who can eat, or who be eager, more than I?
誰かその食ふところその歓樂を極むるところに於て我にまさる者あらん
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.
神はその心に適ふ人には智慧と知識と喜樂を賜ふ 然れども罪を犯す人には労苦を賜ひて斂めかつ積ことを爲さしむ 是は其を神の心に適ふ人に與へたまはんためなり 是もまた空にして風を捕るがごとし
