Ecclesiastes 9
1 For all this did I reflect over in my heart and to explain all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their services, are in the hand of God: that man knoweth neither love nor hatred; it is all [ordained] before them;
我はこの一切の事に心を用ひてこの一切の事を明めんとせり 即ち義き者と賢き者およびかれらの爲ところは神の手にあるなるを明めんとせり 愛むや惡むやは人これを知ることなし一切の事はその前にあるなり
2 Every thing as it is to happen to all; there is but one occurrence for the righteous, and for the wicked; for the good and for the clean, and for the unclean; and for him that sacrificeth, and for him that sacrificeth not; as is the good, so is the sinner; he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
諸の人に臨む所は皆同じ 義き者にも惡き者にも善者にも 浄者にも穢れたる者にも 犠牲を献ぐる者にも犠牲を献げぬ者にもその臨むところの事は同一なり 善人も罪人に異ならず 誓をなす者も誓をなすことを畏るる者に異ならず
3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one occurrence for all, and that also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and that madness is in their heart while they live, and after this they go to the dead.
諸の人に臨むところの事の同一なるは是日の下におこなはるる事の中の惡き者たり 抑人の心には惡き事充をり その生る間は心に狂妄を懐くあり 後には死者の中に往くなり
4 For whoever is yet united with all the living hath still hope; for a living dog fareth better than a dead lion.
凡活る者の中に列る者は望あり 其は生る犬は死る獅子に愈ればなり
5 For the living know that they will die; but the dead know not the least; nor have they longer any reward; for their memory is forgotten.
生者はその死んことを知る 然ど死る者は何事をも知ずまた應報をうくることも重てあらず その記憶らるる事も遂に忘れらるるに至る
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, are now already lost; and they will have never more a portion in all that is done under the sun.
またその愛も惡も嫉も既に消うせて彼等は日の下におこなはるる事に最早何時までも関係ことあらざるなり
7 Go, eat with joy thy bread, and drink with a merry heart thy wine, if God have already received thy works in favor.
汝往て喜悦をもて汝のパンを食ひ樂き心をも汝の酒を飮め 其は神久しく汝の行爲を嘉納たまへばなり
8 At all times let thy garments be white, and let oil not be wanting on thy head.
汝の衣服を常に白からしめよ 汝の頭に膏を絶しむるなかれ
9 Enjoy life with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which God hath given thee under the sun, [yea, ] all the days of thy vanity; for this is thy portion in this life, and in thy toil with which thou toilest under the sun.
日の下に汝が賜はるこの汝の空なる生命の日の間汝その愛する妻とともに喜びて度生せ 汝の空なる生命の日の間しかせよ 是は汝が世にありて受る分汝が日の下に働ける労苦によりて得る者なり
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do with thy might, that do; for there is no work, nor experience, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the nether world, whither thou goest.— (Sheol h7585)
凡て汝の手に堪ることは力をつくしてこれを爲せ 其は汝の往んところの陰府には工作も計謀も知識も智慧もあることなければなり (Sheol h7585)
11 I turned about, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the mighty; and that also the wise have no bread, nor yet the men of understanding riches, nor yet men of knowledge favor; but time and fate will overtake them all.
我また身をめぐらして日の下を観るに 迅速者走ることに勝にあらず強者戦争に勝にあらず 智慧者食物を獲にあらず 明哲人財貨を得にあらず 知識人恩顧を得にあらず 凡て人に臨むところの事は時ある者偶然なる者なり
12 For man also knoweth not his time, like the fishes that are caught in an evil net, and like the birds that are caught in the snare: like these are the sons of men ensnared at an evil time, when it falleth upon them suddenly.
人はまたその時を知ず 魚の禍の網にかかり烏の烏羅にかかるが如くに世の人もまた禍患の時の計らざるに臨むに及びてその禍患にかかるなり
13 Also in this manner have I seen wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
我日の下に是事を観て智慧となし大なる事となせり
14 There was a little city, and the men therein were few; and there came against it a great king, who enclosed it, and built around it great works of siege;
すなはち茲に一箇の小き邑ありて その中の人は鮮かりしが大なる王これに攻きたりてこれを囲みこれに向ひて大なる雲梯を建たり
15 But there was found in it a poor wise man, and he delivered the city by his wisdom; yet no man had thought of that same poor man.
時に邑の中に一人の智慧ある貧しき人ありてその智慧をもて邑を救へり 然るに誰ありてその貧しき人を記念もの無りし
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than might: although the poor man's wisdom is held in contempt, and his words are not heard.
是において我言り智慧は勇力に愈る者なりと 但しかの貧しき人の智慧は藐視られその言詞は聴れざりしなり
17 The words of wise men heard in quiet are better than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
静に聴る智者の言は愚者の君長たる者の號呼に愈る
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner causes much good to be lost.
智慧は軍の器に勝れり一人の惡人は許多の善事を壊ふなり
