Ecclesiastes 9
1 For all this I laid to my heart and [indeed] to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.
我将这一切事放在心上，详细考究，就知道义人和智慧人，并他们的作为都在 神手中；或是爱，或是恨，都在他们的前面，人不能知道。
2 All things [come] alike to all: one event to the righteous and to the wicked, to the good, and to the clean, and to the unclean, to him that sacrificeth and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
凡临到众人的事都是一样：义人和恶人都遭遇一样的事；好人，洁净人和不洁净人，献祭的与不献祭的，也是一样。好人如何，罪人也如何；起誓的如何，怕起誓的也如何。
3 This is an evil among all that is done under the sun, that one thing befalleth all: yea, also the heart of the children of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live; and after that, [they have to go] to the dead.
在日光之下所行的一切事上有一件祸患，就是众人所遭遇的都是一样，并且世人的心充满了恶；活着的时候心里狂妄，后来就归死人那里去了。
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
与一切活人相连的，那人还有指望，因为活着的狗比死了的狮子更强。
5 For the living know that they shall die; but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward, for the memory of them is forgotten.
活着的人知道必死；死了的人毫无所知，也不再得赏赐；他们的名无人记念。
6 Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.
他们的爱，他们的恨，他们的嫉妒，早都消灭了。在日光之下所行的一切事上，他们永不再有分了。
7 Go, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God hath already accepted thy works.
你只管去欢欢喜喜吃你的饭，心中快乐喝你的酒，因为 神已经悦纳你的作为。
8 Let thy garments be always white, and let not thy head lack oil.
你的衣服当时常洁白，你头上也不要缺少膏油。
9 Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity; for that is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherein thou art labouring under the sun.
在你一生虚空的年日，就是 神赐你在日光之下虚空的年日，当同你所爱的妻，快活度日，因为那是你生前在日光之下劳碌的事上所得的分。
10 Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest. (Sheol h7585)
凡你手所当做的事要尽力去做；因为在你所必去的阴间没有工作，没有谋算，没有知识，也没有智慧。 (Sheol h7585)
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to the intelligent, nor yet favour to men of knowledge; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
我又转念：见日光之下，快跑的未必能赢；力战的未必得胜；智慧的未必得粮食；明哲的未必得资财；灵巧的未必得喜悦。所临到众人的是在乎当时的机会。
12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are taken with the snare, like them are the children of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
原来人也不知道自己的定期。鱼被恶网圈住，鸟被网罗捉住，祸患忽然临到的时候，世人陷在其中也是如此。
13 This also have I seen as wisdom under the sun, and it was great unto me.
我见日光之下有一样智慧，据我看乃是广大，
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and encompassed it, and built great bulwarks against it:
就是有一小城，其中的人数稀少，有大君王来攻击，修筑营垒，将城围困。
15 and there was found in it a poor wise man, who by his wisdom delivered the city; but no man remembered that poor man.
城中有一个贫穷的智慧人，他用智慧救了那城，却没有人记念那穷人。
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength; but the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
我就说，智慧胜过勇力；然而那贫穷人的智慧被人藐视，他的话也无人听从。
17 The words of the wise are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
宁可在安静之中听智慧人的言语，不听掌管愚昧人的喊声。
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.
智慧胜过打仗的兵器；但一个罪人能败坏许多善事。
