Ecclesiastes 5
1 When you enter God’s temple, you should be sure to listen carefully. Doing that is better than offering sacrifices to God [and then not obeying him], which is foolish.
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 Think carefully before you speak [MTY] or before you promise God that you will do something [IDM]. [Do not forget that] God is in heaven [and he is all-powerful] and you are here on the earth, so think carefully before you [make any promises to God].
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 If you are continually thinking [and worrying] about things, you will have bad dreams about them and not rest [well]. And the more you talk, the more likely it will be that you will say things that are foolish.
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 you solemnly promise God that you will do something, do not be foolish by delaying in doing it, because God is not pleased with foolish people. Do [all] the things that you promise God that you will do.
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 It is better to not promise [anything] than to promise to do something, and [then] not doing it.
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 sin by promising to do something and then not doing it. And [when you promise God to do something and do not do it], do not say to God’s priest that it was a mistake for you to promise to do that. If you do that, God will certainly [RHQ] become very angry with you, and he will take from you everything that you [SYN] have worked to acquire.
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 Promising to do something and not doing it is like [SIM] a dream that has no value; instead, revere God [by doing what you promised him that you would do].
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 Do not be surprised if you see poor [people] being (oppressed/treated cruelly) [by powerful/influential people], or if you see judges making unjust decisions throughout the land. [That happens] because the people who do that are supervised [and cheated by] more important officials [DOU],
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 even the king forces the people to give him some of the crops that they harvest.
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 Everyone who tries to [get as much] money as they can will never think that they have enough. They will never be satisfied with the money that they have. That also is senseless.
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 The more money that we have, the more people want us to spend our money to buy things for them. So people who have a lot of money do not [RHQ] benefit from it; they see [MTY] it when they get it, but it soon (disappears/is completely spent).
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 Those who work hard sleep peacefully [at night], even if they do not have much food to eat. But rich [people] do not sleep well, because [they worry] about their money.
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 I have seen [another] terrible thing that happens here on the earth [MTY]: People save [up all] their money and become rich, [but] they are not helped by saving a lot of money,
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 [because] something happens that causes their money to be gone, and when they die, there is no money for their children to get/inherit.
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 When we are born, we do not bring anything with us, and when we die, we take nothing with us from all that we have earned by our working hard.
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 That also seems senseless. People bring nothing [into the world when they are born], and they leave [this world] taking nothing with them. They have worked hard, but they receive no lasting benefit [MET].
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 [Furthermore, rich people] are always miserable [MET] and sad, and depressed/discouraged and often sick and (resentful/thinking that what has happened to them is unfair).
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 So, the best thing for people to do here on the earth during the few years that God allows them to be alive is to eat and drink and to enjoy their work, because those are the things that God has given to them.
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 If people are rich and have a lot of possessions, and are able to (enjoy/be happy with) the things that they have and to enjoy their work, those things are [also] gifts from 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 Those people do not worry much about [everything that has happened] during the time that they have been alive, because God enables them to be happy doing everything that they do.
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
