Ecclesiastes 3
1 To everything—a season, and a time to every delight under the heavens:
Svemu ima vrijeme, i svakom poslu pod nebom ima vrijeme.
2 A time to bring forth, And a time to die. A time to plant, And a time to eradicate the planted.
Ima vrijeme kad se raða, i vrijeme kad se umire; vrijeme kad se sadi, i vrijeme kad se èupa posaðeno;
3 A time to slay, And a time to heal, A time to break down, And a time to build up.
Vrijeme kad se ubija, i vrijeme kad se iscjeljuje; vrijeme kad se razvaljuje, i vrijeme kad se gradi.
4 A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.
Vrijeme plaèu i vrijeme smijehu; vrijeme ridanju i vrijeme igranju;
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 kad se razmeæe kamenje, i vrijeme kad se skuplja kamenje; vrijeme kad se grli, 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 kad se teèe, i vrijeme kad se gubi; vrijeme kad se èuva, i vrijeme kad se baca;
7 A time to tear, And a time to sew. A time to be silent, And a time to speak.
Vrijeme kad se dere, i vrijeme kad se sašiva; vrijeme kad se muèi, i vrijeme kad se govori;
8 A time to love, And a time to hate. A time of war, And a time of peace.
Vrijeme kad se ljubi, i vrijeme kad se mrzi; vrijeme ratu i vrijeme miru.
9 What advantage does the doer have in that which he is laboring at?
Kaka je korist onome koji radi od onoga oko èega se trudi?
10 I have seen the travail that God has given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.
Vidio sam poslove koje je Bog dao sinovima ljudskim da se muèe oko njih.
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 je uèinio da je lijepo u svoje vrijeme, i svijet metnuo im je u srce, ali da ne može èovjek dokuèiti djela koja Bog tvori, ni poèetka ni kraja.
12 I have known that there is no good for them except to rejoice and to do good during their life,
Doznah da nema ništa bolje za njih nego da se vesele i èine dobro za života svoga.
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 svaki èovjek jede i pije i uživa dobra od svakoga truda svojega, to je dar Božji.
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.
Doznah da što god tvori Bog ono traje dovijeka, ne može mu se ništa dodati niti se od toga može što oduzeti; i Bog tvori da bi ga se bojali.
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 je bilo to je sada, i što æe biti to je veæ bilo; jer Bog povraæa što je prošlo.
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 vidjeh pod suncem gdje je mjesto suda bezbožnost i mjesto pravde bezbožnost.
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.”
I rekoh u srcu svom: Bog æe suditi pravedniku i bezbožniku; jer ima vrijeme svemu i svakom poslu.
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.
Rekoh u srcu svom za sinove ljudske da im je Bog pokazao da vide da su kao stoka.
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 što biva sinovima ljudskim to biva i stoci, jednako im biva; kako gine ona tako ginu i oni, i svi imaju isti duh; i èovjek ništa nije bolji od stoke, jer je sve taština.
20 The whole are going to one place, the whole have been from the dust, and the whole are turning back to the dust.
Sve ide na jedno mjesto; sve je od praha i sve se vraæa u prah.
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?
Ko zna da duh sinova ljudskih ide gore, a duh stoke da ide dolje pod zemlju?
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?
Zato vidjeh da ništa nema bolje èovjeku nego da se veseli onijem što radi, jer mu je to dio; jer ko æe ga dovesti da vidi što æe biti poslije njega?
