Ecclesiastes 1
1 [I am Solomon], the son of [King] David. [I rule] in Jerusalem [and people call me] ‘The (Preacher/Religious Teacher)’.
Dāvida dēla, Jeruzālemes ķēniņa, mācības vārdi.
2 I say that everything is mysterious; everything is hard for me to understand; it is difficult to understand why everything happens.
Niecība vien, saka tas mācītājs, niecība vien, viss ir niecība.
3 (What do people gain from all the work that they do here on the earth?/It seems that people gain no lasting benefit from all the work that they do here on the earth.) [RHQ]
Kāds labums cilvēkam atlec no visa viņa grūta darba, ar ko viņš nodarbojās pasaulē.
4 [Each year] old people die and babies are born, but the earth never changes.
Cits dzimums aiziet un cits dzimums nāk; bet zeme pastāv mūžīgi.
5 [Each morning] the sun rises, and [each evening] it sets, and [then] it hurries around to where it started from.
Saule lec un saule noiet un steidzās uz savu vietu, kur tā atkal uzlec.
6 The wind blows south, and then it [turns around to start blowing towards] the north. It goes around and around in circles.
Vējš iet pret dienasvidu un iet apkārt pret ziemeļa pusi; tas pūš visapkārt griezdamies un riņķī apgriežas atpakaļ.
7 All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is never full. The water returns [to the sky], and [when it rains], the water returns to the rivers, and it flows again to the sea.
Visas upes ietek jūrā, tomēr jūra netop pilnāka. Tai vietā, no kurienes upes nāk, turp tās atkal atgriežas atpakaļ.
8 Everything is boring, [with the result that] we do not even want to talk about it. We [SYN] see things, but we always want to see more. We [SYN] hear things, but we always want to hear more.
Visās lietās ir tik daudz grūtuma, ka neviens to nevar izteikt. Acīm nepietiek redzot, un ausīm nepietiek dzirdot.
9 [Everything continues to be the same as it has always been]; things that happen have happened previously, and they will happen again. What has been done before will be done again. There is nothing [really] new in this world [MTY].
Kas jau ir bijis, tas vēl būs; un kas jau ir darīts, tas vēl taps darīts; un it nekā jauna nav pasaulē.
10 Sometimes people say, “Look at this! This is something new [RHQ]!” But it has existed previously; it existed before we were born.
Vai ir kas, par ko varētu sacīt: redzi, tas ir jauns? Tas jau ilgi bijis vecos laikos, kas bijuši priekš mums.
11 [People] do not remember the things [that happened] long ago, and in the future, people will not remember what we are doing now.
Kas pagājis, netop pieminēts; un kas nāks, to arī nepieminēs tie, kas pēc tam būs.
12 I, the Religious Teacher, have been the king of Israel [for many years, ruling] in Jerusalem.
Es, tas mācītājs, biju ķēniņš pār Israēli Jeruzālemē.
13 By being wise, I concentrated on understanding everything that was being done on the earth [MTY]. [But I found out that] God causes [all of] us to experience things that cause us to be unhappy/miserable.
Un apņēmos savā sirdī, ar gudrību izmeklēt un izdibināt visu, kas apakš debess notiek. Šo grūto pūliņu Dievs cilvēku bērniem ir uzlicis, lai ar to nopūlējās.
14 It seems that nothing that happens on the earth really enables us to do anything useful. It is [like] [MET] chasing the wind.
Es uzlūkoju visus darbus, kas pasaulē notiek, un redzi, viss bija niecība un grābstīšanās pēc vēja.
15 [Many] things that are crooked cannot be caused to become straight; we cannot count things that do not exist.
Kas līks, nevar palikt taisns; un kā nav, to nevar skaitīt.
16 I said to myself, “[Hey], I am wiser than any of the kings that ruled in Jerusalem before I [became the king]. I am wiser and I know more than any of them!”
Es runāju savā sirdī un sacīju: redzi, es gudrībā esmu augsti cēlies un pieņēmies vairāk nekā visi, kas priekš manis bijuši Jeruzālemē, un mana sirds ir redzējusi gudrības un zinības papilnam.
17 [So] I determined to learn [more] about being wise and to learn about knowing about many things, and [also] to learn about [doing things that are] very foolish [DOU]. [But] I found out that trying to understand those things was also [useless, like] chasing the wind.
Un es apņēmos savā sirdī, atzīt gudrību un zinību, neprātību un ģeķību. Bet es samanīju, ka tā ir grābstīšanās pēc vēja.
18 The wiser I became, the more disappointed I became. The more things I knew about, the sadder I became.
Jo kur daudz gudrības, tur ir daudz grūtības, un jo vairāk atzīšanas, jo vairāk bēdu.
