Ecclesiastes 2
1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and behold, this also [is] vanity.
我わが心に言けらく 來れ我試みに汝をよろこばせんとす 汝逸樂をきはめよと 嗚呼是もまた空なりき
2 I said of laughter, [It is] mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
我笑を論ふ是は狂なり 快樂を論ふ是何の爲ところあらんやと
3 I sought in my heart, to give myself to wine, yet acquainting my heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what [was] that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
我心に智慧を懐きて居つつ酒をもて肉身を肥さんと試みたり 又世の人は天が下において生涯如何なる事をなさば善らんかを知んために我は愚なる事を行ふことをせり
4 I made me great works; I built me houses; I planted me vineyards:
我は大なる事業をなせり 我はわが爲に家を建て葡萄園を設け
5 I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all [kind of] fruits:
園をつくり囿をつくり 又菓のなる諸の樹を其處に植ゑ
6 I made me pools of water, to water with them the wood that bringeth forth trees:
また水の塘池をつくりて樹木の生茂れる林に其より水を灌がしめたり
7 I procured [me] servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
我は僕婢を買得たり また家の子あり 我はまた凡て我より前にヱルサレムにをりし者よりも衆多の牛羊を有り
8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings, and of the provinces: I procured me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the sons of men, [as] musical instruments, and of all sorts.
我は金銀を積み 王等と國々の財寶を積あげたり また歌詠之男女を得 世の人の樂なる妻妾を多くえたり
9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
斯我は大なる者となり 我より前にヱルサレムにをりし諸の人よりも大になりぬ 吾智慧もまたわが身を離れざりき
10 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.
凡そわが目の好む者は我これを禁ぜす 凡そわが心の悦ぶ者は我これを禁ぜざりき 即ち我はわが諸の勞苦によりて快樂を得たり 是は我が諸の勞苦によりて得たるところの分なり
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.
我わが手にて爲たる諸の事業および我が勞して事を爲たる勞苦を顧みるに 皆空にして風を捕ふるが如くなりき 日の下には益となる者あらざるなり
12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what [can] the man [do] that cometh after the king? [even] that which hath been already done.
我また身を轉らして智慧と狂妄と愚癡とを觀たり 抑王に嗣ぐところの人は如何なる事を爲うるや その旣になせしところの事に過ざるべし
13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
光明の黑暗にまさるがごとく智慧は愚癡に勝るなり 我これを暁れり
14 The wise man's eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
智者の目はその頭にあり愚者は黑暗に歩む 然ど我しる其みな遇ふところの事は同一なり
15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also [is] vanity.
我心に謂けらく 愚者の遇ふところの事に我もまた遇ふべければ 我なんぞ智慧のまさる所あらんや 我また心に謂り是も亦空なるのみと
16 For [there is] no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now [is] in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.
夫智者も愚者と均しく永く世に記念らるることなし 來らん世にいたれば皆早く旣に忘らるるなり 嗚呼智者の愚者とおなじく死るは是如何なる事ぞや
17 Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous to me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
是に於て我世にながらふることを厭へり 凡そ日の下に爲ところの事は我に惡く見ればなり 即ち皆空にして風を捕ふるがごとし
18 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.
我は日の下にわが勞して諸の動作をなしたるを恨む其は我の後を嗣ぐ人にこれを遺さざるを得ざればなり
19 And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have showed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.
其人の智愚は誰かこれを知らん然るにその人は日の下に我が勞して爲し智慧をこめて爲たる諸の工作を管理るにいたらん是また空なり
20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor which I took under the sun.
我身をめぐらし日の下にわが勞して爲たる諸の動作のために望を失へり
21 For there is a man whose labor is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not labored in it, shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.
今茲に人あり 智慧と知識と才能をもて勞して事をなさんに終には之がために勞せざる人に一切を遺してその所有となさしめざるを得ざるなり 是また空にして大に惡し
22 For what hath man of all his labor, and of the vexation of his heart, in which he hath labored under the sun?
夫人はその日の下に勞して爲ところの諸の動作とその心勞によりて何の得ところ有るや
23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his labor grief; yes, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
その世にある日には常に憂患あり その勞苦は苦し その心は夜の間も安んずることあらず 是また空なり
24 [There is] nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God.
人の食飮をなしその勞苦によりて心を樂しましむるは幸福なる事にあらず 是もまた神の手より出るなり 我これを見る
25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten [to it] more than I?
誰かその食ふところその歓樂を極むるところに於て我にまさる者あらん
26 For [God] giveth to a man who [is] good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth toil, to gather, and to amass, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
神はその心に適ふ人には智慧と知識と喜樂を賜ふ 然れども罪を犯す人には勞苦を賜ひて斂めかつ積ことを爲さしむ 是は其を神の心に適ふ人に與へたまはんためなり 是もまた空にして風を捕ふるがごとし
