Ecclesiastes 5
1 Keep thy foot, when thou goest unto the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than dullards to offer sacrifice, —for they make no acknowledgment of doing wrong.
汝ヱホバの室にいたる時にはその足を愼め 進みよりて聽聞は愚なる者の犠牲にまさる 彼等はその惡をおこなひをることを知ざるなり
2 Be not rash with thy mouth, and, with thy heart, be not in haste to bring forth a word, before God, —for, God, is in the heavens, and, thou, upon the earth, for this cause, let thy words be few.
汝神の前にありては軽々し口を開くなかれ 心を攝めて妄に言をいだすなかれ 其は神は天にいまし汝は地にをればなり 然ば汝の言詞を少からしめよ
3 For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, —and, the voice of a dullard, is with a multitude of words.
夫夢は事の繁多によりて生じ 愚なる者の聲は言の衆多によりて識るなり
4 When thou vowest a vow unto God, do not defer to pay it, for there is no pleasure in dullards, —what thou vowest, pay!
汝神に誓願をかけなば之を還すことを怠るなかれ 神は愚なる者を悦びたまはざるなり 汝はそのかけし誓願を還すべし
5 Better that thou shouldest not vow, —than vow, and not pay.
誓願をかけてこれを還さざるよりは寧ろ誓願をかけざるは汝に善し
6 Do not let thy mouth cause thy flesh to sin, —neither say thou, before the messenger, that it was, a mistake, —wherefore should God be indignant at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
汝の口をもて汝の身に罪を犯さしむるなかれ 亦使者の前に其は過誤なりといふべからず 恐くは神汝の言を怒り汝の手の所爲を滅したまはん
7 For [it was done] amidst a multitude of dreams, and vanities, and many words, —but, towards God, be thou reverent.
夫夢多ければ空なる事多し 言詞の多きもまた然り 汝ヱホバを畏め
8 If, the oppression of the poor, and the wresting of justice and righteousness, thou see in the province, do not be astonished over the matter, —for, one high above the highest, is watching, yea, the Most High, is over them.
汝國の中に貧き者を虐遇る事および公道と公義を枉ることあるを見るもその事あるを怪むなかれ 其はその位高き人よりも高き者ありてその人を伺へばなり又其等よりも高き者あるなり
9 And, the profit of the earth, is, for all, —a king, by the field, is served.
國の利益は全く是にあり 即ち王者が農事に勤むるにあるなり
10 He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver nor, he that loveth abundance, with revenue, —even this, was vanity.
銀を好む者は銀に飽こと無し 豊富ならんことを好む者は得るところ有らず 是また空なり
11 When blessings are increased, increased are the eaters thereof, —what profit, then, to the owner of them saving the sight of his eyes?
貨財増せばこれを食む者も増すなり その所有主は唯目にこれを看るのみ その外に何の益かあらん
12 Sweet the sleep of the labourer, whether, little or much, he eat, —but, the surfeit of the rich man, will not suffer him to sleep.
勞する者はその食ふところは多きも少きも快く睡るなり 然れども富者はその貨財の多きがために睡ることを得せず
13 Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;
我また日の下に患の大なる者あるを見たり すなはち財寶のこれを蓄ふる者の身に害をおよぼすことある是なり
14 and those riches perish, by being ill employed, —and though he begetteth a son, yet is there in his hand nothing at all.
その財寶はまた災難によりて失落ことあり 然ばその人子を擧ることあらんもその手には何物もあることなし
15 As he came from his mother’s womb, naked, he again departeth, as he came, —and, nothing, can he take of his toil, which he can carry in his hand.
人は母の胎より出て來りしごとくにまた裸體にして皈りゆくべし その勞苦によりて得たる者を毫厘も手にとりて携へゆくことを得ざるなり
16 Even this, moreover, is an incurable evil, altogether as he came, so, shall he depart, —what profit then shall he have who toileth for the wind?
人は全くその來りしごとくにまた去ゆかざるを得ず 是また患の大なる者なり 抑風を追て勞する者何の益をうること有んや
17 Even all his days, [are spent] in darkness and mourning, —and he is very morose, and is sad and angry.
人は生命の涯黑暗の中に食ふことを爲す また憂愁多かり 疾病身にあり 憤怒あり
18 Lo! what, I myself, have seen—Better that it should be excellent to eat and to drink and to see blessedness, in all one’s toil wherein one toileth under the sun, for the number of the days of his life, in that God hath given it him, for, that, is his portion:
視よ我は斯觀たり 人の身にとりて善かつ美なる者は 神にたまはるその生命の極食飮をなし 且その日の下に勞して働ける勞苦によりて得るところの福禄を身に享るの事なり是その分なればなり
19 yet, as regardeth every man, to whom God hath given wealth and goods, and granted him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to find gladness in his toil, this, is, the gift of God.
何人によらず神がこれに富と財を與へてそれに食ことを得せしめ またその分を取りその勞苦によりて快樂を得ることをせさせたまふあれば その事は神の賜物たるなり
20 Though it be not much, let him remember the days of his life, —for, God, beareth witness, by the gladness of his heart.
かかる人はその年齢の日を憶ゆること深からず 其は神これが心の喜ぶところにしたがひて應ることを爲したまへばなり
