Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who [is] as the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
誰か智者に如ん誰か事物の理を解ことを得ん 人の智慧はその人の面に光輝あらしむ 又その粗暴面も変改べし
2 I [counsel]: keep the command of a king, even for the sake of an oath [to] God.
我言ふ王の命を守るべし既に神をさして誓ひしことあれ然るべきなり
3 Do not be troubled at his presence, you may go, do not stand in an evil thing, for all that he pleases he does.
早まりて王の前を去ることなかれ 惡き事につのること勿れ 其は彼は凡てその好むところを爲ばなり
4 Where the word of a king [is] power [is], and who says to him, “What do you do?”
王の言語には權力あり 然ば誰か之に汝何をなすやといふことを得ん
5 Whoever is keeping a command knows no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knows.
命令を守る者は禍患を受るに至らず 智者の心は時期と判断を知なり
6 For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great on him.
萬の事務には時あり判断あり是をもて人大なる禍患をうくるに至るあり
7 For he does not know that which will be, for when it will be who declares to him?
人は後にあらんところの事を知ず また誰か如何なる事のあらんかを之に告る者あらん
8 There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness does not deliver its possessors.
霊魂を掌管て霊魂を留めうる人あらず 人はその死る日には權力あること旡し 此戦争には釈放たるる者あらず 又罪惡はこれを行ふ者を救ふことを得せざるなり
9 All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; a time that man has ruled over man to his own evil.
我この一切の事を見また日の下におこなはるる諸の事に心を用ひたり時としては此人彼人を治めてこれに害を蒙らしむることあり
10 And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This [is] also vanity.
我見しに惡人の葬られて安息にいるあり また善をおこなふ者の聖所を離れてその邑に忘らるるに至るあり是また空なり
11 Because sentence has not been done [on] an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil.
惡き事の報速にきたらざるが故に世人心を専にして惡をおこなふ
12 Though a sinner is doing evil one hundred [times], and prolonging [himself] for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
罪を犯す者百次惡をなして猶長命あれども 我知る神を畏みてその前に畏怖をいだく者には幸福あるべし
13 And good is not to the wicked, and he does not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God.
但し惡人には幸福あらず またその生命も長からずして影のごとし 其は神の前に畏怖をいだくことなければなり
14 There is a vanity that has been done on the earth, that there are righteous ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this [is] also vanity.
我日の下に空なる事のおこなはるるを見たり 即ち義人にして惡人の遭べき所に遭ふ者あり 惡人にして義人の遭べきところに遭ふ者あり 我謂り是もまた空なり
15 And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remains with him of his labor the days of his life that God has given to him under the sun.
是に於て我喜樂を讃む 其は食飮して樂むよりも好き事は日の下にあらざればなり 人の労して得る物の中是こそはその日の下にて神にたまはる生命の日の間その身に離れざる者なれ
16 When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that has been done on the earth (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
茲に我心をつくして智慧を知らんとし世に爲ところの事を究めんとしたり 人は夜も昼もその目をとぢて眠ることをせざるなり
17 then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that has been done under the sun, because though man labor to seek, yet he does not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
我神の諸の作爲を見しが人は日の下におこなはるるところの事を究むるあたはざるなり 人これを究めんと労するもこれを究むることを得ず 且又智者ありてこれを知ると思ふもこれを究むることあたはざるなり
