Ecclesiastes 12
1 Remember also your Creator in days of your youth, While that the evil days do not come, Nor the years have arrived, that you say, “I have no pleasure in them.”
汝の少き日に汝の造主を記えよ 即ち惡き日の來り年のよりて我は早何も樂むところ無しと言にいたらざる先
2 While that the sun is not darkened, and the light, And the moon, and the stars, And the thick clouds returned after the rain.
また日や光明や月や星の暗くならざる先 雨の後に雲の返らざる中に汝然せよ
3 In the day that keepers of the house tremble, And men of strength have bowed themselves, And grinders have ceased, because they have become few. And those looking out at the windows have become dim,
その日いたる時は家を守る者は慄ひ 力ある人は屈み 磨碎者は寡きによりて息み 窓より窺ふ者は目昏むなり
4 And doors have been shut in the street. When the noise of the grinding is low, And [one] rises at the voice of the bird, And all daughters of song are bowed down.
磨こなす聲低くなれば衢の門は閉づ その人は鳥の聲に起あがり 歌の女子はみな身を卑くす
5 Also of that which is high they are afraid, And of the low places in the way, And the almond-tree is despised, And the grasshopper has become a burden, And want is increased, For man is going to his perpetual home, And the mourners have gone around through the street.
かかる人々は高き者を恐る畏しき者多く途にあり 巴旦杏は花咲くまた蝗もその身に重くその嗜欲は廢る 人永遠の家にいたらんとすれば哭婦衢にゆきかふ
6 While that the silver cord is not removed, And the golden bowl broken, And the pitcher broken by the fountain, And the wheel broken at the well.
然る時には銀の紐は解け金の盞は碎け吊瓶は泉の側に壞れ轆轤は井の傍に破ん
7 And the dust returns to the earth as it was, And the spirit returns to God who gave it.
而して塵は本の如くに土に皈り 霊魂はこれを賦けし神にかへるべし
8 Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole [is] vanity.
傳道者云ふ空の空なるかな皆空なり
9 And further, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, and gave ear, and sought out—he made right many allegories.
また傳道者は智慧あるが故に恒に知識を民に敎へたり 彼は心をもちひて尋ね究め許多の箴言を作れり
10 The preacher sought to find out pleasing words, and [that] written [by] the upright—words of truth.
傳道者は務めて佳美き言詞を求めたり その書しるしたる者は正直して眞實の言語なり
11 Words of the wise [are] as the goads, and as nails planted [by] the masters of collections, they have been given by one Shepherd.
智者の言語は刺鞭のごとく 會衆の師の釘たる釘のごとくにして 一人の牧者より出し者なり
12 And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many scrolls has no end, and much study [is] a weariness of the flesh.
わが子よ是等より訓誡をうけよ 多く書をつくれば竟なし 多く學べば體疲る
13 The end of the whole matter let us hear: “Fear God, and keep His commands, for this [is] the whole of man.
事の全體の皈する所を聽べし 云く 神を畏れその誡命を守れ 是は諸の人の本分たり
14 For every work God brings into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether good or bad.”
神は一切の行爲ならびに一切の隠れたる事を善惡ともに審判たまふなり
