Ecclesiastes 3
1 There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.
Sve ima svoje doba i svaki posao pod nebom svoje vrijeme.
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.
Vrijeme rađanja i vrijeme umiranja; vrijeme sađenja i vrijeme čupanja posađenog.
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.
Vrijeme ubijanja i vrijeme liječenja; vrijeme rušenja i vrijeme građenja.
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].
Vrijeme plača i vrijeme smijeha; vrijeme tugovanja i vrijeme plesanja.
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].
Vrijeme bacanja kamenja i vrijeme sabiranja kamenja; vrijeme grljenja i vrijeme kad se ostavlja grljenje.
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.
Vrijeme traženja i vrijeme gubljenja; vrijeme čuvanja i vrijeme odbacivanja.
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.
Vrijeme deranja i vrijeme š§ijenja; vrijeme šutnje i vrijeme govorenja.
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.
Vrijeme ljubljenja i vrijeme mržnje; vrijeme rata i vrijeme mira.
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]).
Koja je posleniku korist od njegovih napora?
10 I have seen the work that God has given people to do.
Razmišljam o mučnoj zadaći što je Bog zadade sinovima ljudskim.
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.
Sve što on čini prikladno je u svoje vrijeme; ali iako je dopustio čovjeku uvid u vjekove, čovjek ne može dokučiti djela koja Boga čini od početka do kraja.
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.
Znam da nije druge sreće čovjeku osim da se veseli i čini dobro za svojega života.
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.
I kad čovjek jede i pije i uživa u svojem radu, i to je Božji dar.
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.
I znam da sve što Bog čini, čini za stalno. Tome se ništa dodati ne može niti mu se može oduzeti; a Bog čini tako da ga se boje.
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.
Što biva, već bijaše, i što će biti, već je bilo; a Bog obnavlja što je prohujalo.
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.
Još vidim kako pod suncem umjesto pravice vlada nepravda i umjesto pravednika zločinac.
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.”
Zato rekoh u sebi: “Bog će suditi i pravedniku i zločincu, jer ovdje ima vrijeme za svaku namjeru i čin.”
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,
Još rekoh u sebi: “Ljudi se ponašaju tako da Bog može pokazati kakvi su uistinu, da su jedni drugima poput zvijeri.”
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.
Jer zaista, kob ljudi i zvijeri jedna je te ista. Kako ginu oni, tako ginu i one; i dišu jednakim dahom, i čovjek ničim ne nadmašuje zvijer, jer sve je ispraznost.
20 [People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil again.
I jedni i drugi odlaze na isto mjesto; svi su postali od praha i u prah se vraćaju.
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.”
Tko zna da li dah ljudski uzlazi gore, a dah zvijeri silazi dolje k zemlji?
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.
Uviđam da čovjeku druge sreće nema osim radosti u svome djelu, jer to je ljudska sudbina. A tko će ga dovesti do toga da dozna što će biti poslije njega?
