Ecclesiastes 3
1 There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.
| لِكُلِّ شَيْءٍ أَوَانٌ، وَلِكُلِّ أَمْرٍ تَحْتَ السَّمَاءِ زَمَانٌ. | ١ |
2 There is a time to be born, and there is a time to die. There is a time to plant [seeds], and there is a time to harvest crops.
| لِلْوِلادَةِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلْمَوْتِ وَقْتٌ. لِلْغَرْسِ وَقْتٌ ولاِسْتِئْصَالِ الْمَغْرُوسِ وَقْتٌ. | ٢ |
3 There is a time to kill [people], and there is a time to heal [people]. There is a time to tear things down, and there is a time to build things.
| لِلْقَتْلِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلْعِلاجِ وَقْتٌ. لِلْهَدْمِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلْبِنَاءِ وَقْتٌ. | ٣ |
4 There is a time to cry, and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn, and there is a time to dance [joyfully].
| لِلْبُكَاءِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلضَّحِكِ وَقْتٌ. لِلنَّوْحِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلرَّقْصِ وَقْتٌ. | ٤ |
5 There is a time to throw away stones [from a field], and there is a time to gather stones [to build walls/houses]. There is a time to embrace [people], and there is a time to not embrace [people].
| لِبَعْثَرَةِ الْحِجَارَةِ وَقْتٌ وَلِتَكْوِيمِهَا وَقْتٌ. لِلْمُعَانَقَةِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلْكَفِّ عَنْهَا وَقْتٌ. | ٥ |
6 There is a time to search for things, and there is a time to stop searching for things. There is a time to keep/save things, and there is a time to throw things away.
| لِلسَّعْيِ وَقْتٌ، وَلِلْخَسَارَةِ وَقْتٌ. لِلصِّيَانَةِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلْبَعْثَرَةِ وَقْتٌ. | ٦ |
7 There is a time to tear [our old clothes], and there is a time to mend [clothes]. There is a time to say nothing, and there is a time when we should speak.
| لِلتَّمْزِيقِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلْخِيَاطَةِ وَقْتٌ. لِلصَّمْتِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلإِفْصَاحِ وَقْتٌ. | ٧ |
8 There is a time when we should love [things that people do], and there is a time when we should hate [things that people do]. There is a time for war, and there is a time for peace.
| لِلْحُبِّ وَقْتٌ وَلِلْبَغْضَاءِ وَقْتٌ. لِلْحَرْبِ وَقْتٌ وَلِلسَّلامِ وَقْتٌ. | ٨ |
9 (What do people gain from all the work that they do?/It seems that people gain very little from all the work that they do [RHQ]).
| فَأَيُّ نَفْعٍ يَجْنِيهِ الْعَامِلُ مِنْ كَدِّهِ؟ | ٩ |
10 I have seen the work that God has given people to do.
| لَقَدْ رَأَيْتُ الْمَشَقَّةَ الَّتِي حَمَّلَهَا اللهُ لأَبْنَاءِ النَّاسِ لِيَقُومُوا بِها. | ١٠ |
11 God has appointed a time that is right/correct for everything to happen. He has [also] caused people to realize that there are things that will endure forever. But in spite of that, no one can completely understand everything that God has done, from the time that he starts doing things until he finishes them.
| إِذْ صَنَعَ كُلَّ شَيْءٍ حَسَناً فِي حِينِهِ وَغَرَسَ الأَبَدِيَّةَ فِي قُلُوبِ الْبَشَرِ، وَمَعَ ذَلِكَ لَمْ يُدْرِكُوا أَعْمَالَ اللهِ مِنَ الْبَدَايَةِ إِلَى النِّهَايَةِ. | ١١ |
12 I know that the best [LIT] thing for us people to do is to rejoice and to do good things [all] during the time that we are alive.
| فَأَيْقَنْتُ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ أَفْضَلَ لَهُمْ مِنْ أَنْ يَفْرَحُوا وَيُمَتِّعُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَهُمْ مَازَالُوا عَلَى قَيْدِ الْحَيَاةِ. | ١٢ |
13 And I also know that everyone should eat and drink, and enjoy the work that they do. Those are things that God gives to us.
| إِنَّ مِنْ نِعَمِ اللهِ عَلَى الإِنْسَانِ أَنْ يَأْكُلَ وَيَشْرَبَ وَيَسْتَمْتِعَ بِمَا يَجْنِيهِ مِنْ كَدِّهِ. | ١٣ |
14 I [also] know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere him.
| وَعَلِمْتُ أَنَّ كُلَّ مَا يَفْعَلُهُ اللهُ يَخْلُدُ إِلَى الأَبَدِ، لَا يُضَافُ عَلَيْهِ شَيْءٌ أَوْ يُنْقَصُ مِنْهُ. وَقَدْ أَجْرَاهُ اللهُ لِيَتَّقِيَهُ النَّاسُ. | ١٤ |
15 Things that exist now have already existed previously, and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously; God causes the same things to happen many times.
| فَمَا كَانَ قَبْلاً هُوَ كَائِنٌ الآنَ، وَمَا سَيَكُونُ هُوَ كَائِنٌ مِنْ قَبْلُ. وَاللهُ يُطَالِبُ بِمَا قَدْ مَضَى. | ١٥ |
16 Furthermore, I saw that on this earth [MTY], even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked [DOU] things.
| وَرَأَيْتُ أَيْضاً تَحْتَ الشَّمْسِ: الْجَوْرَ فِي مَوْضِعِ الْعَدْلِ، وَالظُّلْمَ فِي مَوْضِعِ الْحَقِّ. | ١٦ |
17 [So] I said to myself [SYN], “God will judge [both] righteous [people] and wicked [people]; there is a time [for him to do that], because there is a time for him to do everything.”
| فَقُلْتُ فِي نَفْسِي: إِنَّ اللهَ سَيَحْكُمُ عَلَى الصِّدِّيقِ وَعَلَى الشِّرِّيرِ، لأَنَّ لِكُلِّ عَمَلٍ وَلِكُلِّ أَمْرٍ وَقْتاً هُنَاكَ. | ١٧ |
18 And regarding humans, I [also] said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that [in one way] people are no different than animals,
| وَنَاجَيْتُ قَلْبِي أَيْضاً بِشَأْنِ أَبْنَاءِ الْبَشَرِ قَائِلاً: إِنَّمَا اللهُ يَمْتَحِنُهُمْ، لِيُبَيِّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُمْ لَيْسُوا أَفْضَلَ مِنَ الْبَهَائِمِ، | ١٨ |
19 because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe [to remain alive]. [With regard to that], people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that.
| لأَنَّ مَا يَحُلُّ بِأَبْنَاءِ الْبَشَرِ يَحُلُّ بِالْبَهَائِمِ. فَكَمَا يَمُوتُ الْوَاحِدُ مِنَ النَّاسِ يَمُوتُ الآخَرُ مِنَ الْبَهَائِمِ، فَلِكِلَيْهِمَا نَسَمَةٌ وَاحِدَةٌ، وَلَيْسَ لِلإِنْسَانِ فَضْلٌ عَلَى الْبَهِيمَةِ، فَكُلُّ شَيْءٍ بَاطِلٌ. | ١٩ |
20 [People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil again.
| كِلاهُمَا يَذْهَبُ إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ وَاحِدٍ. كِلاهُمَا مِنَ التُّرَابِ، وَإِلَيْهِ يَعُودَانِ. | ٢٠ |
21 No one knows [RHQ] for sure that when we die, our souls/spirits go up to heaven and the souls/spirits of animals go down to the place where the dead are.”
| فَمَنْ يَعْرِفُ أَنَّ رُوحَ الإِنْسَانِ تَصْعَدُ إِلَى الْعَلاءِ، وَرُوحَ الْحَيَوَانِ تَهْبِطُ إِلَى أَسْفَلِ الأَرْضِ؟ | ٢١ |
22 So I concluded that the best thing for [us] people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say that because no one of us [RHQ] knows what happens to us after we die.
| فَرَأَيْتُ أَنَّهُ لَيْسَ أَفْضَلَ مِنْ أَنْ يَسْتَمْتِعَ الإِنْسَانُ بِكَدِّهِ، لأَنَّ هَذَا نَصِيبُهُ، لأَنَّهُ مَنْ يُرْجِعُهُ لِيَرَى مَا سَيَجْرِي مِنْ بَعْدِهِ؟ | ٢٢ |
