Ecclesiastes 5
1 Take heede to thy foote when thou entrest into the House of God, and be more neere to heare then to giue the sacrifice of fooles: for they knowe not that they doe euil.
你到上帝的殿要謹慎腳步；因為近前聽，勝過愚昧人獻祭，他們本不知道所做的是惡。
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, nor let thine heart be hastie to vtter a thing before God: for God is in the heauens, and thou art on the earth: therefore let thy wordes be fewe.
你在上帝面前不可冒失開口，也不可心急發言；因為上帝在天上，你在地下，所以你的言語要寡少。
3 For as a dreame commeth by the multitude of businesse: so the voyce of a foole is in the multitude of wordes.
事務多，就令人做夢；言語多，就顯出愚昧。
4 When thou hast vowed a vowe to God, deferre not to pay it: for he deliteth not in fooles: pay therefore that thou hast vowed.
你向上帝許願，償還不可遲延，因他不喜悅愚昧人，所以你許的願應當償還。
5 It is better that thou shouldest not vowe, then that thou shouldest vow and not pay it.
你許願不還，不如不許。
6 Suffer not thy mouth to make thy flesh to sinne: neither say before the Angel, that this is ignorance: wherefore shall God bee angry by thy voyce, and destroy the worke of thine hands?
不可任你的口使肉體犯罪，也不可在祭司面前說是錯許了。為何使上帝因你的聲音發怒，敗壞你手所做的呢？
7 For in the multitude of dreames, and vanities are also many wordes: but feare thou God.
多夢和多言，其中多有虛幻，你只要敬畏上帝。
8 If in a countrey thou seest the oppression of the poore, and the defrauding of iudgement and iustice, be not astonied at the matter: for hee that is higher then the highest, regardeth, and there be higher then they.
你若在一省之中見窮人受欺壓，並奪去公義公平的事，不要因此詫異；因有一位高過居高位的鑒察，在他們以上還有更高的。
9 And the abundance of the earth is ouer all: the King also consisteth by the fielde that is tilled.
況且地的益處歸眾人，就是君王也受田地的供應。
10 He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.
貪愛銀子的，不因得銀子知足；貪愛豐富的，也不因得利益知足。這也是虛空。
11 When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good commeth to the owners thereof, but the beholding thereof with their eyes?
貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！
12 The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.
勞碌的人不拘吃多吃少，睡得香甜；富足人的豐滿卻不容他睡覺。
13 There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.
我見日光之下有一宗大禍患，就是財主積存資財，反害自己。
14 And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
因遭遇禍患，這些資財就消滅；那人若生了兒子，手裏也一無所有。
15 As hee came foorth of his mothers belly, he shall returne naked to goe as he came, and shall beare away nothing of his labour, which hee hath caused to passe by his hand.
他怎樣從母胎赤身而來，也必照樣赤身而去；他所勞碌得來的，手中分毫不能帶去。
16 And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
他來的情形怎樣，他去的情形也怎樣。這也是一宗大禍患。他為風勞碌有甚麼益處呢？
17 Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.
並且他終身在黑暗中吃喝，多有煩惱，又有病患嘔氣。
18 Beholde then, what I haue seene good, that it is comely to eate, and to drinke, and to take pleasure in all his labour, wherein he traueileth vnder the sunne, the whole nomber of the dayes of his life, which God giueth him: for this is his portion.
我所見為善為美的，就是人在上帝賜他一生的日子吃喝，享受日光之下勞碌得來的好處，因為這是他的分。
19 Also to euery man to whom God hath giuen riches and treasures, and giueth him power to eate thereof, and to take his part, and to enioy his labour: this is the gift of God.
上帝賜人資財豐富，使他能以吃用，能取自己的分，在他勞碌中喜樂，這乃是上帝的恩賜。
20 Surely hee will not much remember the dayes of his life, because God answereth to the ioy of his heart.
他不多思念自己一生的年日，因為上帝應他的心使他喜樂。
