Ecclesiastes 6
1 I have seen something [else here] on this earth that troubles people.
Ada suatu kemalangan yang telah kulihat di bawah matahari, yang sangat menekan manusia:
2 God enables some people to get a lot of money and possessions and to be honored; they have everything [LIT] that they want. But God [sometimes] does not allow them to continue to enjoy those things. Someone else gets them and enjoys them. That seems senseless and unfair.
orang yang dikaruniai Allah kekayaan, harta benda dan kemuliaan, sehingga ia tak kekurangan suatupun yang diingininya, tetapi orang itu tidak dikaruniai kuasa oleh Allah untuk menikmatinya, melainkan orang lain yang menikmatinya! Inilah kesia-siaan dan penderitaan yang pahit.
3 Someone might have 100 children and live for many years. But if he is not able to enjoy the things that he has acquired, and if he is not buried [properly after he dies], [I say that] a child that is dead when it is born is more fortunate.
Jika orang memperoleh seratus anak dan hidup lama sampai mencapai umur panjang, tetapi ia tidak puas dengan kesenangan, bahkan tidak mendapat penguburan, kataku, anak gugur lebih baik dari pada orang ini.
4 That dead baby’s birth is meaningless; it does not even have a name. It goes directly to the place where there is only darkness.
Sebab anak gugur itu datang dalam kesia-siaan dan pergi dalam kegelapan, dan namanya ditutupi kegelapan.
5 It does not [live to] see the sun or know anything. But it finds more rest than rich people do [who are alive].
Lagipula ia tidak melihat matahari dan tidak mengetahui apa-apa. Ia lebih tenteram dari pada orang tadi.
6 Even if people could live for 2,000 years, if they do not enjoy the things that God gives to them, [it would have been better for them never to have been born]. [All people who live a long time] certainly [RHQ] all go to the same place— [to the grave].
Biarpun ia hidup dua kali seribu tahun, kalau ia tidak menikmati kesenangan: bukankah segala sesuatu menuju satu tempat?
7 People work hard to [earn enough money to buy] food to eat [MTY], but [often] they never get enough to eat.
Segala jerih payah manusia adalah untuk mulutnya, namun keinginannya tidak terpuaskan.
8 So it seems that [RHQ] wise people do not receive more lasting benefits than foolish people do. And it seems that [RHQ] poor people do not benefit from knowing how to conduct their lives.
Karena apakah kelebihan orang yang berhikmat dari pada orang yang bodoh? Apakah kelebihan orang miskin yang tahu berperilaku di hadapan orang?
9 It is better to enjoy the things that we already have [MTY] than to constantly want more things; continually wanting more things is [senseless], [like] the wind.
Lebih baik melihat saja dari pada menuruti nafsu. Inipun kesia-siaan dan usaha menjaring angin.
10 All the things that exist [on the earth] have been given names. And everyone knows what people are like, [so] it is useless to argue with someone (OR, with God) who is stronger than we are.
Apapun yang ada, sudah lama disebut namanya. Dan sudah diketahui siapa manusia, yaitu bahwa ia tidak dapat mengadakan perkara dengan yang lebih kuat dari padanya.
11 The more [that we] talk, the more [often we say things that are] senseless, so it certainly does not [RHQ] benefit us to talk a lot.
Karena makin banyak kata-kata, makin banyak kesia-siaan. Apakah faedahnya untuk manusia?
12 We live for only a short time; we disappear like [SIM] a shadow disappears [in the sunlight]. No one [RHQ] knows what is best for us while we are alive, and no one [RHQ] knows what will happen to us after we die [EUP].
Karena siapakah yang mengetahui apa yang baik bagi manusia sepanjang waktu yang pendek dari hidupnya yang sia-sia, yang ditempuhnya seperti bayangan? Siapakah yang dapat mengatakan kepada manusia apa yang akan terjadi di bawah matahari sesudah dia?
