Книга Екклезиаста 2
1 Рекох аз в сердцы моем: прииди убо, да тя искушу в веселии, и виждь во блазе: и се, такожде сие суетство.
I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
2 Смеху рекох: погрешение, и веселию: что сие твориши?
Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?
3 И разсмотрих, аще сердце мое повлечет аки вино плоть мою: и сердце мое настави мя в мудрости, и еже удержати веселие, дондеже увижду, кое благо сыном человеческим, еже творят под солнцем в число дний живота своего.
I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
4 Возвеличих творение мое: создах ми домы, насадих ми винограды,
I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
5 сотворих ми вертограды и сады и насадих в них древес всякаго плода,
I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,
6 сотворих ми купели водныя, еже напаяти от них прозябение древес:
And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,
7 притяжах рабы и рабыни, и домочадцы быша ми: и стяжание скота, и стад много ми бысть, паче всех бывших прежде мене во Иерусалиме:
I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:
8 собрах ми злато и сребро и имения царей и стран, сотворих ми поющих и поющыя, и услаждения сынов человеческих, виночерпцы и виночерпицы.
I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:
9 И возвеличихся, и приложихся мудрости паче всех бывших прежде мене во Иерусалиме: и мудрость моя пребысть со мною.
And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.
10 И все, егоже просиста очи мои, не отях от них и не возбраних сердцу моему от всякаго веселия моего, яко сердце мое возвеселися во всяцем труде моем. И сие бысть часть моя от всего труда моего.
And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
11 И призрех аз на вся творения моя, яже сотвористе руце мои, и на труд, имже трудихся творити. И се, вся суета и произволение духа, и несть изюбилие под солнцем.
And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
12 И призрех аз видети мудрость, лесть и безумие: яко кто человек, иже пойдет вслед совета, елика сотвори в нем?
I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)
13 И видех аз, яко есть изюбилие мудрости паче безумия, якоже изюбилие света паче тмы:
And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
14 мудраго очи его во главе его, а безумный во тме ходит: и уведех и аз, яко случай един случится всем им.
The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
15 И рех аз в сердцы моем: якоже случай безумнаго, и мне случится: и вскую умудрихся? Аз тогда излишше глаголах в сердцы моем, яко и сие суета, понеже безумный от избытка глаголет:
And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
16 яко несть памяти мудраго с безумным во век, зане уже во днех грядущих вся забвена быша: и како умрет мудрый с безумным?
For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
17 И возненавидех живот, яко лукавно мне сотворение сотворенное под солнцем: понеже всяческая суета и произволение духа.
And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
18 И возненавидех аз всяческая мира и труд мой, имже аз труждаюся под солнцем, яко оставляю его человеку будущему по мне.
Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
19 И кто весть, мудр ли будет или безумен? И обладати ли имать всем трудом моим, имже трудихся и имже мудрствовах под солнцем? И сие же суета.
Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?
20 И обратихся аз отрещися сердцу моему о всем труде, имже трудихся под солнцем:
Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.
21 яко есть человек, егоже труд в мудрости и в разуме и в мужестве: и человек, иже не потрудися о нем, даст ему часть свою. И сие суета и лукавство велие.
For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
22 Яко бывает человеку во всем труде его и в произволении сердца его, имже той труждается под солнцем,
For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?
23 яко вси дние его болезней и ярости попечение ему, ибо в нощи не спит сердце его. И сие же суета есть.
All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
24 Несть благо человеку, но (разве) еже яст и пиет и еже покажет души своей благо в труде своем: и сие видех аз, яко от руки Божия есть:
Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.
25 яко кто яст и пиет кроме Его?
Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
26 Яко человеку благу пред лицем Его даде мудрость и разум и веселие, согрешающему же даде попечение, еже прилагати и собирати, во еже дати благому пред лицем Божиим: яко и сие суета и произволение духа.
God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.
