Propovednik 3
1 Svemu ima vrijeme, i svakom poslu pod nebom ima vrijeme.
There is a right/correct time for everything, a time for everything that we do in this world.
2 Ima vrijeme kad se raða, i vrijeme kad se umire; vrijeme kad se sadi, i vrijeme kad se èupa posaðeno;
There is a time to be born, and there is a time to die. There is a time to plant [seeds], and there is a time to harvest crops.
3 Vrijeme kad se ubija, i vrijeme kad se iscjeljuje; vrijeme kad se razvaljuje, i vrijeme kad se gradi.
There is a time to kill [people], and there is a time to heal [people]. There is a time to tear things down, and there is a time to build things.
4 Vrijeme plaèu i vrijeme smijehu; vrijeme ridanju i vrijeme igranju;
There is a time to cry, and there is a time to laugh. There is a time to mourn, and there is a time to dance [joyfully].
5 Vrijeme kad se razmeæe kamenje, i vrijeme kad se skuplja kamenje; vrijeme kad se grli, i vrijeme kad se ostavlja grljenje;
There is a time to throw away stones [from a field], and there is a time to gather stones [to build walls/houses]. There is a time to embrace [people], and there is a time to not embrace [people].
6 Vrijeme kad se teèe, i vrijeme kad se gubi; vrijeme kad se èuva, i vrijeme kad se baca;
There is a time to search for things, and there is a time to stop searching for things. There is a time to keep/save things, and there is a time to throw things away.
7 Vrijeme kad se dere, i vrijeme kad se sašiva; vrijeme kad se muèi, i vrijeme kad se govori;
There is a time to tear [our old clothes], and there is a time to mend [clothes]. There is a time to say nothing, and there is a time when we should speak.
8 Vrijeme kad se ljubi, i vrijeme kad se mrzi; vrijeme ratu i vrijeme miru.
There is a time when we should love [things that people do], and there is a time when we should hate [things that people do]. There is a time for war, and there is a time for peace.
9 Kaka je korist onome koji radi od onoga oko èega se trudi?
(What do people gain from all the work that they do?/It seems that people gain very little from all the work that they do [RHQ]).
10 Vidio sam poslove koje je Bog dao sinovima ljudskim da se muèe oko njih.
I have seen the work that God has given people to do.
11 Sve je uèinio da je lijepo u svoje vrijeme, i svijet metnuo im je u srce, ali da ne može èovjek dokuèiti djela koja Bog tvori, ni poèetka ni kraja.
God has appointed a time that is right/correct for everything to happen. He has [also] caused people to realize that there are things that will endure forever. But in spite of that, no one can completely understand everything that God has done, from the time that he starts doing things until he finishes them.
12 Doznah da nema ništa bolje za njih nego da se vesele i èine dobro za života svoga.
I know that the best [LIT] thing for us people to do is to rejoice and to do good things [all] during the time that we are alive.
13 I kad svaki èovjek jede i pije i uživa dobra od svakoga truda svojega, to je dar Božji.
And I also know that everyone should eat and drink, and enjoy the work that they do. Those are things that God gives to us.
14 Doznah da što god tvori Bog ono traje dovijeka, ne može mu se ništa dodati niti se od toga može što oduzeti; i Bog tvori da bi ga se bojali.
I [also] know that what God does endures forever. No one can add to what God does, and no one can take away from the things that God does. God does those things in order that people would revere him.
15 Što je bilo to je sada, i što æe biti to je veæ bilo; jer Bog povraæa što je prošlo.
Things that exist now have already existed previously, and things that will happen in the future have already happened previously; God causes the same things to happen many times.
16 Još vidjeh pod suncem gdje je mjesto suda bezbožnost i mjesto pravde bezbožnost.
Furthermore, I saw that on this earth [MTY], even in the courts where we expect judges to make right decisions about what people had done, they did many wicked [DOU] things.
17 I rekoh u srcu svom: Bog æe suditi pravedniku i bezbožniku; jer ima vrijeme svemu i svakom poslu.
[So] I said to myself [SYN], “God will judge [both] righteous [people] and wicked [people]; there is a time [for him to do that], because there is a time for him to do everything.”
18 Rekoh u srcu svom za sinove ljudske da im je Bog pokazao da vide da su kao stoka.
And regarding humans, I [also] said to myself, “God is testing us, to show us that [in one way] people are no different than animals,
19 Jer što biva sinovima ljudskim to biva i stoci, jednako im biva; kako gine ona tako ginu i oni, i svi imaju isti duh; i èovjek ništa nije bolji od stoke, jer je sve taština.
because what happens to people happens to animals. Animals die, and people die. We all must breathe [to remain alive]. [With regard to that], people have no advantage over animals, so I have a difficult time understanding that.
20 Sve ide na jedno mjesto; sve je od praha i sve se vraæa u prah.
[People and animals] all die and are buried. We are all made of soil, and [when we die], our corpses become soil again.
21 Ko zna da duh sinova ljudskih ide gore, a duh stoke da ide dolje pod zemlju?
No one knows [RHQ] for sure that when we die, our souls/spirits go up to heaven and the souls/spirits of animals go down to the place where the dead are.”
22 Zato vidjeh da ništa nema bolje èovjeku nego da se veseli onijem što radi, jer mu je to dio; jer ko æe ga dovesti da vidi što æe biti poslije njega?
So I concluded that the best thing for [us] people to do is to be happy about the work that we do, because that is what God has given to us. I say that because no one of us [RHQ] knows what happens to us after we die.
