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.
我わが心に言けらく 來れ我試みに汝をよろこばせんとす 汝逸樂をきはめよと 嗚呼是もまた空なりき
2 Of laughter I said, “Foolish!” And of mirth, “What [is] this it is doing?”
我笑を論ふ是は狂なり 快樂を論ふ是何の爲ところあらんやと
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.
我心に智慧を懐きて居つつ洒をもて肉身を肥さんと試みたり 又世の人は天が下におて生涯如何なる事をなさぼ善らんかを知んために我は愚なる事を行ふことをせり
4 I made great my works, I built for myself houses, I planted for myself vineyards.
我は大なる事業をなせり 我はわが爲に家を建て葡萄園を設け
5 I made for myself gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.
園をつくり囿をつくり 又菓のなる諸の樹を其處に植ゑ
6 I made for myself pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.
また水の塘池をつくりて樹木の生茂れる林に其より水を灌がしめたり
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.
我は僕婢を買得たり また家の子あり 我はまた凡て我より前にヱルサレムにをりし者よりも衆多の牛羊を有り
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.
我は金銀を積み 王等と國々の財寶を積あげたり また歌詠之男女を得 世の人の樂なる妻妾を多くえたり
9 And I became great, and increased above everyone who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.
斯我は大なる者となり 我より前にヱルサレムにをりし諸の人よりも大になりぬ 吾智慧もまたわが身を離れざりき
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,
凡そわが目の好む者は我これを禁ぜす 凡そわが心の悦ぶ者は我これを禁ぜざりき 即ち我はわが諸の労苦によりて快樂を得たり 是は我が諸の労苦によりて得たるところの分なり
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!
我わが手にて爲たる諸の事業および我が労して事を爲たる労苦を顧みるに 皆空にして風を捕ふるが如くなりき 日の下には益となる者あらざるなり
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!
我また身を轉らして智慧と狂妄と愚癡とを観たり 抑王に嗣ぐところの人は如何なる事を爲うるや その既になせしところの事に過ざるべし
13 And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.
光明の黒暗にまさるがごとく智匙は愚癡に勝るなり 我これを暁れり
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;
智者の目はその頭にあり愚者は黒暗に歩む 然ど我しる具みな遇ふところの事は同一なり
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:
我心に謂けらく 愚者の遇ふところの事に我もまた遇ふべければ 我なんぞ智慧のまさる所あらんや 我また心に謂り是も亦空なるのみと
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!
夫智者も愚者と均しく永く世に記念らるることなし 來らん世にいたれば皆早く既に忘らるるなり 嗚呼智者の愚者とおなじく死るは是如何なる事ぞや
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.
是に於て我世にながらふることを厭へり 凡そ日の下に爲ところの事は我に惡く見ればなり 即ち皆空にして風を捕ふるがごとし
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.
我は日の下にわが労して諸の動作をなしたるを恨む其は我の後を嗣ぐ人にこれを遺さざるを得ざればなり
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.
其人の智愚は誰かこれを飢らん然るにその人は日の下に我が労して爲し智慧をこめて爲たる諸の工作を管理るにいたらん是また空なり
20 And I turned around to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor that I labored at under the sun.
我身をめぐらし日の下にわが労して爲たる諸の動作のために望を失へり
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.
今茲に人あり 智慧と知識と才能をもて労して事をなさんに終には之がために労せざる人に一切を遺してその所有となさしめざるを得ざるなり 是また空にして大に惡し
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?
夫人はその日の下に労して爲ところの諸の動作とその心労によりて何の得ところ有るや
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart has not lain down; this [is] also vanity.
その世にある日には常に憂患あり その労苦は苦し その心は夜の間も安んずることあらず 是また空なり
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.
人の食飮をなしその労苦によりて心を樂しましむるは幸福なる事にあらず 是もまた神の手より出るなり 我これを見る
25 For who eats and who hurries out more than I?
誰かその食ふところその歓樂を極むるところに於て我にまさる者あらん
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.
神はその心に適ふ人には智慧と知識と喜樂を賜ふ 然れども罪を犯す人には労苦を賜ひて斂めかつ積ことを爲さしむ 是は其を神の心に適ふ人に與へたまはんためなり 是もまた空にして風を捕るがごとし
