جامعه 5

1 وقتی وارد خانهٔ خدا می‌شوی، مراقب رفتارت باش. مثل اشخاص نادان نباش که در آنجا قربانی تقدیم می‌کنند بدون اینکه متوجه اعمال بد خود باشند. وقتی به آنجا می‌روی گوشهای خود را باز کن تا چیزی یاد بگیری.

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.

2 برای حرف زدن عجله نکن و سخنان نسنجیده در حضور خداوند بر زبان نیاور، زیرا او در آسمان است و تو بر زمین، پس سخنان تو کم و سنجیده باشند.

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].

3 همان‌طور که نگرانی زیاد باعث می‌شود خوابهای بد ببینی، همچنان حرف زدن زیاد موجب می‌شود سخنان احمقانه بگویی.

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.

4 وقتی به خداوند قول می‌دهی که کاری انجام بدهی، در وفای آن تأخیر نکن، زیرا خداوند از احمقان خشنود نیست. به قولی که به او می‌دهی وفا کن.

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.

5 بهتر است قول ندهی تا اینکه قول بدهی و انجام ندهی.

It is better to not promise [anything] than to promise to do something, and [then] not doing it.

6 نگذار سخنانت تو را به گناه بکشانند و سعی نکن به خادم خدا بگویی که ندانسته به خداوند قول داده‌ای؛ چرا با چنین سخنانی خداوند را خشمگین سازی، تا او دسترنج تو را از بین ببرد؟

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.

7 خیالات بسیار و سخنان زیاد بیهودگی است؛ پس تو با ترس و احترام به حضور خداوند بیا.

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].

8 هرگاه ببینی در سرزمینی، فقرا مورد ظلم واقع می‌شوند و عدالت و انصاف اجرا نمی‌گردد، تعجب نکن؛ زیرا یک مأمور اجرای عدالت، تابع مأمور بالاتری است که او نیز زیر دست مأمور بالاتری قرار دارد. این سلسله مراتب، باعث می‌شود اجرای عدالت مختل شود.

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],

9 حتی پادشاه نیز از مزارع بهره می‌کشد.

and even the king forces the people to give him some of the crops that they harvest.

10 آدم پولدوست هرگز قانع نمی‌شود و دائم به فکر جمع کردن ثروت است. این نیز بیهودگی است.

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.

11 هر چه ثروت بیشتر شود، مخارج نیز بیشتر می‌شود؛ پس آدم ثروتمند که با چشمانش خرج شدن ثروتش را می‌بیند، چه سودی از ثروتش می‌برد؟

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).

12 خواب کارگر شیرین است، چه کم بخورد چه زیاد؛ اما دارایی شخص ثروتمند نمی‌گذارد او راحت بخوابد.

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.

13 مصیبت دیگری در زیر آسمان دیده‌ام: شخصی که برای آینده ثروت جمع می‌کند،

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,

14 ولی در اثر حادثهٔ بدی ثروتش بر باد می‌رود و چیزی برای فرزندانش باقی نمی‌ماند.

[because] something happens that causes their money to be gone, and when they die, there is no money for their children to get/inherit.

15 برهنه به دنیا می‌آید و برهنه از دنیا می‌رود و از دسترنج خود چیزی با خود نمی‌برد.

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.

16 چه مصیبتی! انسان می‌آید و می‌رود و نفعی نمی‌برد، زیرا زحماتش مانند دویدن به دنبال باد است.

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].

17 او تمام عمر را در تاریکی و نومیدی و درد و خشم می‌گذراند.

[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).

18 من این را فهمیدم که بهترین چیزی که انسان در تمام زندگی می‌تواند انجام دهد این است که بخورد و بنوشد و از دسترنجی که در زیر آسمان حاصل نموده، لذت ببرد، زیرا نصیبش همین است.

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.

19 اگر خداوند به کسی مال و ثروت بدهد و توانایی عطا کند تا از آن استفاده نماید، او باید این بخشش خدا را که نصیبش شده بپذیرد و از کار خود لذت ببرد.

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.

20 چنین شخصی در مورد کوتاه بودن عمر غصه نخواهد خورد، زیرا خداوند دل او را از شادی پر کرده است.

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.