Ecclesiastes 6
1 I have seen something [else here] on this earth that troubles people.
Hay otro mal que vi debajo del sol, y que pesa gravemente sobre los hombres:
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.
Hombres hay a quienes Dios dio riquezas, bienes y honores, y a los que nada falta en la vida de cuanto puedan desear, pero Dios no los deja gozar de ello; un extraño lo consumirá. Vanidad es esto y mal muy grande.
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.
Si uno engendra cien hijos, y vive muchos años, hasta la más avanzada edad, y su alma no se harta de sus bienes, y ni siguiera obtiene sepultura, este tal, digo yo, es mas infeliz que un abortivo.
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.
Pues ha venido en vano, y en tinieblas se va; y la obscuridad cubre su nombre;
5 It does not [live to] see the sun or know anything. But it finds more rest than rich people do [who are alive].
nunca vio el sol ni le conoció. Más reposo tiene este que aquel infeliz.
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].
Y esto aunque haya vivido dos veces mil años; pues no ha podido gozar de los bienes. ¿Acaso no van todos a un mismo lugar?
7 People work hard to [earn enough money to buy] food to eat [MTY], but [often] they never get enough to eat.
Todo el afán del hombre es para su boca; pero nunca se sacian sus apetitos.
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.
¿Qué ventaja tiene el sabio sobre el necio? ¿Cuál el pobre que sabe conducirse delante de los hombres?
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.
Más vale lo que ven los ojos, que ir tras deseos. También esto es vanidad y correr tras el viento.
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.
A todo cuanto ha de venir le ha sido dado ya su nombre, y ya se sabe qué es un hombre, y que no puede contender con quien le supera en fuerza.
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.
Hay muchas palabras que solo sirven para aumentar la vanidad. ¿Qué provecho tiene de esto el hombre?
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].
Pues, ¿quién sabe lo que es bueno para el hombre mientras vive, en los días de su vida de vanidad, que él recorre como una sombra? Y ¿quién puede decir al hombre lo que después de él ha de ser bajo el sol?
