Ecclesiastes 2
1 I said in my heart, “Pray, come, I try you with mirth, and look on gladness”; and behold, even it [is] vanity.
我心里说：“来吧，我以喜乐试试你，你好享福！”谁知，这也是虚空。
2 Of laughter I said, “Foolish!” And of mirth, “What [is] this it is doing?”
我指嬉笑说：“这是狂妄。”论喜乐说：“有何功效呢？”
3 I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly until I see where this [is]—the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.
我心里察究，如何用酒使我肉体舒畅，我心却仍以智慧引导我；又如何持住愚昧，等我看明世人，在天下一生当行何事为美。
4 I made great my works, I built for myself houses, I planted for myself vineyards.
我为自己动大工程，建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，
5 I made for myself gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.
修造园囿，在其中栽种各样果木树；
6 I made for myself pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.
挖造水池，用以浇灌嫩小的树木。
7 I acquired menservants, and maidservants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance—herd and flock—above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.
我买了仆婢，也有生在家中的仆婢；又有许多牛群羊群，胜过以前在耶路撒冷众人所有的。
8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for myself men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man—a wife and wives.
我又为自己积蓄金银和君王的财宝，并各省的财宝；又得唱歌的男女和世人所喜爱的物，并许多的妃嫔。
9 And I became great, and increased above everyone who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.
这样，我就日见昌盛，胜过以前在耶路撒冷的众人。我的智慧仍然存留。
10 And all that my eyes asked I did not keep back from them; I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this has been my portion, from all my labor,
凡我眼所求的，我没有留下不给它的；我心所乐的，我没有禁止不享受的；因我的心为我一切所劳碌的快乐，这就是我从劳碌中所得的分。
11 and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labor that I have labored to do, and behold, the whole [is] vanity and distress of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
后来，我察看我手所经营的一切事和我劳碌所成的功。谁知都是虚空，都是捕风；在日光之下毫无益处。
12 And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what [is] the man who comes after the king? That which [is] already—they have done it!
我转念观看智慧、狂妄，和愚昧。在王以后而来的人还能做什么呢？也不过行早先所行的就是了。
13 And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.
我便看出智慧胜过愚昧，如同光明胜过黑暗。
14 The wise—his eyes [are] in his head, and the fool is walking in darkness, and I also knew that one event happens with them all;
智慧人的眼目光明，愚昧人在黑暗里行。我却看明有一件事，这两等人都必遇见。
15 and I said in my heart, “As it happens with the fool, it happens also with me, and why am I then more wise?” And I spoke in my heart, that also this [is] vanity:
我就心里说：“愚昧人所遇见的，我也必遇见，我为何更有智慧呢？”我心里说，这也是虚空。
16 That there is no remembrance to the wise—with the fool—for all time, for that which [is] already, [in] the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dies the wise? With the fool!
智慧人和愚昧人一样，永远无人记念，因为日后都被忘记；可叹智慧人死亡，与愚昧人无异。
17 And I have hated life, for sad to me [is] the work that has been done under the sun, for the whole [is] vanity and distress of spirit.
我所以恨恶生命；因为在日光之下所行的事我都以为烦恼，都是虚空，都是捕风。
18 And I have hated all my labor that I labor at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.
我恨恶一切的劳碌，就是我在日光之下的劳碌，因为我得来的必留给我以后的人。
19 And who knows whether he is wise or foolish? Yet he rules over all my labor that I have labored at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! This [is] also vanity.
那人是智慧是愚昧，谁能知道？他竟要管理我劳碌所得的，就是我在日光之下用智慧所得的。这也是虚空。
20 And I turned around to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor that I labored at under the sun.
故此，我转想我在日光之下所劳碌的一切工作，心便绝望。
21 For there is a man whose labor [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who has not labored therein he gives it—his portion! Even this [is] vanity and a great evil.
因为有人用智慧、知识、灵巧所劳碌得来的，却要留给未曾劳碌的人为分。这也是虚空，也是大患。
22 For what has been to a man by all his labor, and by the thought of his heart that he labored at under the sun?
人在日光之下劳碌累心，在他一切的劳碌上得着什么呢？
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart has not lain down; this [is] also vanity.
因为他日日忧虑，他的劳苦成为愁烦，连夜间心也不安。这也是虚空。
24 There is nothing good in a man who eats, and has drunk, and has shown his soul good in his labor. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.
人莫强如吃喝，且在劳碌中享福，我看这也是出于 神的手。
25 For who eats and who hurries out more than I?
论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？
26 For to a man who [is] good before Him, He has given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He has given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this [is] vanity and distress of spirit.
神喜悦谁，就给谁智慧、知识，和喜乐；惟有罪人， 神使他劳苦，叫他将所收聚的、所堆积的归给 神所喜悦的人。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
