Ecclesiastes 6
1 Also another yuel is, which Y siy vndur the sunne; and certis it is oft vsid anentis men.
我觀るに日の下に一件の患あり是は人の間に恒なる者なり
2 A man is, to whom God yaf richessis, and catel, and onour; and no thing failith to his soule of alle thingis which he desirith; and God yyueth not power to hym, that he ete therof, but a straunge man shal deuoure it. This is vanyte, and a greet wretchidnesse.
すなはち神富と財と貴を人にあたへて その心に慕ふ者を一件もこれに缺ることなからしめたまひながらも 神またその人に之を食ふことを得せしめたまはずして 他人のこれを食ふことあり 是空なり惡き疾なり
3 If a man gendrith an hundrid fre sones, and lyueth many yeris, and hath many daies of age, and his soule vsith not the goodis of his catel, and wantith biriyng; Y pronounce of this man, that a deed borun child is betere than he.
假令人百人の子を擧けまた長壽してその年齢の日多からんも 若その心景福に滿足せざるか又は葬らるることを得ざるあれば 我言ふ流產の子はその人にまさるたり
4 For he cometh in veyn, and goith to derknessis; and his name schal be don a wei bi foryetyng.
夫流產の子はその來ること空しくして黑暗の中に去ゆきその名は黑暗の中にかくるるなり
5 He siy not the sunne, nether knew dyuersyte of good and of yuel;
又是は日を見ることなく物を知ることなければ彼よりも安泰なり
6 also thouy he lyueth twei thousynde yeeris, and vsith not goodis; whether alle thingis hasten not to o place?
人の壽命千年に倍するとも福祉を蒙れるにはあらず 皆一所に往くにあらずや
7 Al the trauel of a man is in his mouth, but the soule of hym schal not be fillid with goodis.
人の勞苦は皆その口のためなり その心はなほも飽ざるところ有り
8 What hath a wijs man more than a fool? and what hath a pore man, no but that he go thidur, where is lijf?
賢者なんぞ愚者に勝るところあらんや また世人の前に歩行ことを知ところの貧者も何の勝るところ有んや
9 It is betere to se that, that thou coueitist, than to desire that, that thou knowist not; but also this is vanyte, and presumpcioun of spirit.
目に觀る事物は心のさまよひ歩くに愈るなり 是また空にして風を捕ふるがごとし
10 The name of hym that schal come, is clepid now, and it is knowun, that he is a man, and he mai not stryue in doom ayens a strongere than hym silf.
嘗て在し者は久しき前にすでにその名を命られたり 即ち是は人なりと知る 然ば是はかの自己よりも力強き者と爭ふことを得ざるなり
11 Wordis ben ful manye, and han myche vanyte in dispuytinge.
衆多の言論ありて虚浮き事を増す然ど人に何の益あらんや
12 What nede is it to a man to seke grettere thingis than hym silf; sithen he knowith not, what schal bifalle to hym in his lijf, in the noumbre of daies of his pilgrimage, and in the tyme that passith as schadowe? ether who may schewe to hym, what thing vndur sunne schal come aftir hym?
人はその虚空き生命の日を影のごとくに送るなり 誰かこの世において如何なる事か人のために善き者なるやを知ん 誰かその身の後に日の下にあらんところの事を人に告うる者あらんや
