Ecclesiastes 12
1 While you are still young, keep thinking about [God], who created you. Do that before [you are old] and you experience many troubles, during the years when you say “I no [longer] enjoy being alive.”
И помни Создателя твоего в дни юности твоей, доколе не пришли тяжелые дни и не наступили годы, о которых ты будешь говорить: “нет мне удовольствия в них!”,
2 [When you become old], the light from the sun and moon and stars will [seem] dim [to you], and [it will seem that the rain] clouds [always] return [quickly] after it rains.
доколе не померкли солнце и свет и луна и звезды, и не нашли новые тучи вслед за дождем.
3 Then your [arms that you use to protect] [MET] your bodies will shake/tremble, and your [legs that support] [MET] your bodies will become weak. Many of your [teeth that you use to] grind/chew [your food] will fall out, and your [eyes that you use to] look out of windows will not see clearly.
В тот день, когда задрожат стерегущие дом и согнутся мужи силы; и перестанут молоть мелющие, потому что их немного осталось; и помрачатся смотрящие в окно;
4 Your [ears] [MET] will not hear the noise in the streets, and you will not be able to hear clearly the sound of people grinding grain with millstones. You will be awakened in the morning by hearing the birds singing/chirping, [but] you will not be able to hear well the songs that (the birds/people) sing.
и запираться будут двери на улицу; когда замолкнет звук жернова, и будет вставать человек по крику петуха и замолкнут дщери пения;
5 You will be afraid to be in high places and afraid of dangers on the roads that you walk on. [Your hair] will become [white like] [MET] the flowers of almond trees. [When you try to walk], you will drag yourself along like [MET] grasshoppers, and you will no longer desire [to have sex]. Then you will [die and] go to your eternal home, and people who will mourn for you will be in the streets.
и высоты будут им страшны, и на дороге ужасы; и зацветет миндаль, и отяжелеет кузнечик, и рассыплется каперс. Ибо отходит человек в вечный дом свой, и готовы окружить его по улице плакальщицы; -
6 [Think much about God now, because] soon our lives will end, [like] [MET] silver chains or golden bowls that break easily, or like pitchers/jugs that are broken at the water fountain, or like broken pulleys at a well.
доколе не порвалась серебряная цепочка, и не разорвалась золотая повязка, и не разбился кувшин у источника, и не обрушилось колесо над колодезем.
7 Then our corpses will [decay and] become dirt again, and our spirits will return to God, the one who gave us our spirits.
И возвратится прах в землю, чем он и был; а дух возвратится к Богу, Который дал его.
8 [So] I say [again] that it is difficult to understand why everything happens; everything is mysterious.
Суета сует, сказал Екклесиаст, все - суета!
9 I was considered to be a very wise man, and I taught the people many things. I assembled/collected and wrote down many proverbs, and I carefully thought about and studied them.
Кроме того, что Екклесиаст был мудр, он учил еще народ знанию. Он все испытывал, исследовал, и составил много притчей.
10 I searched for the right words, and what I have written is reliable and true.
Старался Екклесиаст приискивать изящные изречения, и слова истины написаны им верно.
11 The things that [I and other] wise people say [teach people what they should do]; they are like [SIM] (goads/sharp sticks that people use to strike animals to direct where they should go). They are like [SIM] nails that stick out of pieces of wood. They are given to us by [God, who is like] [MET] our shepherd.
Слова мудрых - как иглы и как вбитые гвозди, и составители их - от единого пастыря.
12 [So], my son, pay careful attention to what I have written, and choose carefully what you read that others have written, [because] writing proverbs/books is endless, and [trying to] study them all will cause you to become exhausted.
А что сверх всего этого, сын мой, того берегись: составлять много книг - конца не будет, и много читать - утомительно для тела.
13 [Now] you have heard all [that I have told you], and here is the conclusion: Revere God, and obey his commandments, because those commandments summarize everything that people should do.
Выслушаем сущность всего: бойся Бога и заповеди Его соблюдай, потому что в этом все для человека;
14 And do not forget that God will judge everything that we do, good things and bad things, [even] things that we do secretly.
ибо всякое дело Бог приведет на суд, и все тайное, хорошо ли оно, или худо
