Ecclesiastes 12
1 Yet remember thy Creator, in the days of thy vigour, —or ever come in, the days of discomfort, and the years arrive, in which thou shalt say—I have, in them, no pleasure;
汝の少き日に汝の造主を記えよ 即ち惡き日の來り年のよりて我は早何も樂むところ無しと言にいたらざる先
2 Or ever be darkened—the sun, and the light, and the moon, and the stars, —and the clouds return after a downpour of rain;
また日や光明や月や星の暗くならざる先 雨の後に雲の返らざる中に汝然せよ
3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the men of might bow themselves, —and the grinders cease because they are few, and they who look through the windows are darkened;
その日いたる時は家を守る者は慄ひ 力ある人は屈み 磨碎者は寡きによりて息み 窓より窺ふ者は目昏むなり
4 And the doors in the street be closed, when the sound of the mill become low, —and one rise at the chirp of a small bird, and low-voiced be all the daughters of song;
磨こなす聲低くなれば衢の門は閉づ その人は鳥の聲に起あがり 歌の女子はみな身を卑くす
5 Yea, at what is high, they be in fear, and there be, terrors, in the way, and the almond be rejected, and the grasshopper drag itself along, and desire perish, —for man is going to his age-abiding home, when the wailers shall go round in the streets;
かかる人々は高き者を恐る畏しき者多く途にあり 巴旦杏は花咲くまた蝗もその身に重くその嗜欲は廢る 人永遠の家にいたらんとすれば哭婦衢にゆきかふ
6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, —or the bucket by the fountain be shivered, or the wheel at the well be broken;
然る時には銀の紐は解け金の盞は碎け吊瓶は泉の側に壞れ轆轤は井の傍に破ん
7 And the dust return to the earth, as it was, —and, the spirit, return unto God, who gave it.
而して塵は本の如くに土に皈り 霊魂はこれを賦けし神にかへるべし
8 Vanity of vanities, saith the Proclaimer, all, is vanity.
傳道者云ふ空の空なるかな皆空なり
9 Besides that, the Proclaimer being wise, —still further taught knowledge unto the people, and weighed and searched, arranged proverbs in abundance.
また傳道者は智慧あるが故に恒に知識を民に敎へたり 彼は心をもちひて尋ね究め許多の箴言を作れり
10 The Proclaimer sought to find out words giving delight, and to note down rightly, the words of truth.
傳道者は務めて佳美き言詞を求めたり その書しるしたる者は正直して眞實の言語なり
11 The words of the wise, are as goads, yea, as driven nails, their well-ordered sayings, —given from one shepherd.
智者の言語は刺鞭のごとく 會衆の師の釘たる釘のごとくにして 一人の牧者より出し者なり
12 And besides, from them, my son, be admonished, —Of making many books, there is no end, and, much study, is a weariness of the flesh.
わが子よ是等より訓誡をうけよ 多く書をつくれば竟なし 多く學べば體疲る
13 The conclusion of the matter—the whole, let us hear, —Towards God, be reverent, and, his commandments, observe, for, this, [concerneth] all mankind.
事の全體の皈する所を聽べし 云く 神を畏れその誡命を守れ 是は諸の人の本分たり
14 For, every work, will God bring into judgment, with every hidden thing, —whether good, or evil.
神は一切の行爲ならびに一切の隠れたる事を善惡ともに審判たまふなり
