Ecclesiastes 3
1 To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
Sve ima svoje doba i svaki posao pod nebom svoje vrijeme.
2 A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.
Vrijeme rađanja i vrijeme umiranja; vrijeme sađenja i vrijeme čupanja posađenog.
3 A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.
Vrijeme ubijanja i vrijeme liječenja; vrijeme rušenja i vrijeme građenja.
4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.
Vrijeme plača i vrijeme smijeha; vrijeme tugovanja i vrijeme plesanja.
5 A time to cast away stones, And a time to heap up stones. A time to embrace, And a time to be far from embracing.
Vrijeme bacanja kamenja i vrijeme sabiranja kamenja; vrijeme grljenja i vrijeme kad se ostavlja grljenje.
6 A time to seek, And a time to destroy. A time to keep, And a time to cast away.
Vrijeme traženja i vrijeme gubljenja; vrijeme čuvanja i vrijeme odbacivanja.
7 A time to tear, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.
Vrijeme deranja i vrijeme š§ijenja; vrijeme šutnje i vrijeme govorenja.
8 A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
Vrijeme ljubljenja i vrijeme mržnje; vrijeme rata i vrijeme mira.
9 What advantage does the doer have in that which he is laboring at?
Koja je posleniku korist od njegovih napora?
10 I have seen the travail that God has given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
Razmišljam o mučnoj zadaći što je Bog zadade sinovima ljudskim.
11 The whole He has made beautiful in its season; also, that knowledge He has put in their heart without which man does not find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.
Sve što on čini prikladno je u svoje vrijeme; ali iako je dopustio čovjeku uvid u vjekove, čovjek ne može dokučiti djela koja Boga čini od početka do kraja.
12 I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,
Znam da nije druge sreće čovjeku osim da se veseli i čini dobro za svojega života.
13 indeed, even every man who eats and has drunk and seen good by all his labor, it [is] a gift of God.
I kad čovjek jede i pije i uživa u svojem radu, i to je Božji dar.
14 I have known that all that God does is for all time, to it nothing is to be added, and from it nothing is to be withdrawn; and God has worked that they fear before Him.
I znam da sve što Bog čini, čini za stalno. Tome se ništa dodati ne može niti mu se može oduzeti; a Bog čini tako da ga se boje.
15 What is that which has been? Already it is, and that which [is] to be has already been, and God requires that which is pursued.
Što biva, već bijaše, i što će biti, već je bilo; a Bog obnavlja što je prohujalo.
16 And again, I have seen under the sun the place of judgment—there [is] the wicked; and the place of righteousness—there [is] the wicked.
Još vidim kako pod suncem umjesto pravice vlada nepravda i umjesto pravednika zločinac.
17 I said in my heart, “The righteous and the wicked God judges, for a time [is] to every matter and for every work there.”
Zato rekoh u sebi: “Bog će suditi i pravedniku i zločincu, jer ovdje ima vrijeme za svaku namjeru i čin.”
18 I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves [are] beasts.
Još rekoh u sebi: “Ljudi se ponašaju tako da Bog može pokazati kakvi su uistinu, da su jedni drugima poput zvijeri.”
19 For an event [is to] the sons of man, and an event [is to] the beasts, even one event [is] to them; as the death of this, so [is] the death of that; and one spirit [is] to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole [is] vanity.
Jer zaista, kob ljudi i zvijeri jedna je te ista. Kako ginu oni, tako ginu i one; i dišu jednakim dahom, i čovjek ničim ne nadmašuje zvijer, jer sve je ispraznost.
20 The whole are going to one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back to the dust.
I jedni i drugi odlaze na isto mjesto; svi su postali od praha i u prah se vraćaju.
21 Who knows the spirit of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the spirit of the beast that is going down below to the earth?
Tko zna da li dah ljudski uzlazi gore, a dah zvijeri silazi dolje k zemlji?
22 And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it [is] his portion; for who brings him to look on that which is after him?
Uviđam da čovjeku druge sreće nema osim radosti u svome djelu, jer to je ljudska sudbina. A tko će ga dovesti do toga da dozna što će biti poslije njega?
