Ecclesiastes 5
1 Keep thy foot, when thou goest into the house of God, and draw nigh to hear. For much better is obedience, than the victims of fools, who know not what evil they do.
汝ヱホバの室にいたる時にはその足を愼め 進みよりて聴聞は愚なる者の犠牲にまさる 彼等はその惡をおこなひをることを知ざるなり
2 Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
汝神の前にありては軽々し口を開くなかれ 心を攝めて妄に言をいだすなかれ 其は神は天にいまし汝は地にをればなり 然ば汝言詞を少からしめよ
3 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
夫夢は事の繁多によりて生じ 愚なる者の聲は言の衆多によりて識るなり
4 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.
汝神に誓願をかけなば之を還すことを怠るなかれ 神は愚なる者を悦びたまはざるなり 汝はそのかけし誓願を還すべし
5 And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.
誓願をかけてこれを還さざるよりは寧ろ誓願をかけざるは汝に善し
6 Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.
汝の口をもて汝の身に罪を犯さしむるたかれ 亦使者の前に其は過誤なりといふべからず 恐くは神汝の言を怒り汝の手の所爲を滅したまはん
7 Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.
夫夢多ければ空たる事多し 言詞の多きもまた然り 汝ヱホバを畏め
8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:
汝國の中に貧き者を虐遇る事および公道と公義を枉ることあるを見るもその事あるを怪むなかれ 其はその位高き人よりも高き者ありてその人を伺へばなり又其等よりも高き者あるなり
9 Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.
國の利益は全く是にあり 即ち王者が農事に勤むるにあるなり
10 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
銀を好む者は銀に飽こと無し 豊富ならんことを好む者は得るところ有らず 是また空なり
11 Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
貨財増せばこれを食む者も増すなり その所有主は唯日にこれを看るのみ その外に何の益かあらん
12 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
労する者はその食ふところは多きも少きも快く睡るなり 然れども富者はその貨財の多きがために睡ることを得せず
13 There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
我また日の下に患の大なる者あるを見たり すなはち財寶のこれを蓄ふる者の身に害をおよぼすことある是なり
14 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
その財寶はまた災難によりて失落ことあり 然ばその人子を挙ることあらんもその手には何物もあることなし
15 As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
人は母の胎より出て釆りしごとくにまた裸體にして皈りゆくべし その労苦によりて得たる者を毫厘も手にとりて携へゆくことを得ざるなり
16 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
人は全くその來りしごとくにまた去ゆかざるを得ず 是また患の大なる者なり 抑風を追て労する者何の益をうること有んや
17 All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
人は生命の涯黒暗の中に食ふことを爲す また憂愁多かり 疾病身にあり 憤怒あり
18 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.
視よ我は斯観たり 人の身にとりて善かつ美なる者は 神にたまはるその生命の極食飮をなし 且その日の下に労して働ける労苦によりて得るところの福禄を身に享るの事なり是その分なればなり
19 And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
何人によらず神がこれに富と財を與へてそれに食ことを得せしめ またその分を取りその労苦によりて快樂を得ることをせさせたまふあれば その事は神の賜物たるなり
20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,
かかる人はその年齢の日を憶ゆること深からず 其は神これが心の喜ぶところにしたがひて應ることを爲したまへばなり
