Ecclesiastes 6
1 There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
我観るに日の下に一件の患あり是は人の間に恒なる者なり
2 A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.
すなはち神富と財と貴を人にあたへて その心に慕ふ者を一件もこれに欠ることなからしめたまひながらも 神またその人に之を食ふことを得せしめたまはずして 他人のこれを食ことあり 是空なり惡き疾なり
3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
仮令人百人の子を挙けまた長壽してその年齢の日多からんも 若その心景福に満足せざるか又は葬らるることを得ざるあれば 我言ふ流産の子はその人にまさるたり
4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
夫流産の子はその來ること空しくして黒暗の中に去ゆきその名は黒暗の中にかくるるなり
5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
又是は日を見ることなく物を知ることなければ彼よりも安泰なり
6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
人の壽命千年に倍するとも福祉を蒙れるにはあらず 皆一所に往くにあらずや
7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
人の労苦は皆その口のためなり その心はなほも飽ざるところ有り
8 What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
賢者なんぞ愚者に勝るところあらんや また世人の前に歩行ことを知ところの貧者も何の勝るところ有んや
9 Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.
目に観る事物は心のさまよひ歩くに愈るなり 是また空にして風を捕ふるがごとし
10 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.
嘗て在し者は久しき前にすでにその名を命られたり 即ち是は人なりと知る 然ば是はかの自己よりも力強き者と争ふことを得ざるなり
11 There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
衆多の言論ありて虚浮き事を増す然ど人に何の益あらんや
12 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?
人はその虚空き生命の日を影のごとくに送るなり 誰かこの世において如何なる事か人のために善き者なるやを知ん 誰かその身の後に日の下にあらんところの事を人に告うる者あらんや
