Ecclesiastes 2
1 I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;" and look, this also was 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 I said of laughter, "It is foolishness;" and of mirth, "What does it accomplish?"
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 searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all 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 myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted 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 myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of 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 myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were reared.
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 bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were 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 silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
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 So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained 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 Whatever my eyes desired, I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was 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 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and look, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit 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 I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly. For what can the man who comes after the king do? Just that which he has already done.
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 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly, as far as light excels 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 man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to 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 Then said I in my heart, "As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?" Then said I in my heart that this also 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 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like 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 So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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 I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who comes 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 Who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all of my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is 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 Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored 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 with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also 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 a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors 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 is grief; yes, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is 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 better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, 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 can eat, or who can have enjoyment, apart from him?
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 the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
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
