Книга Екклезиаста 8
1 Кто уведе мудрость? И кто весть разрешение глагола? Мудрость человека просветит лице его, а безстудный возненавиден будет лицем своим.
Who knows the wise? and who knows the interpretation of a saying? A man's wisdom will lighten his countenance; but a man of shameless countenance will be hated.
2 Уста царева сохрани, и о словеси клятвы Божия не скор буди.
Observe the commandment of the king, and [that] because of the word of the oath of God.
3 От лица его пойдеши, не стани во словеси лукавне, яко все, еже (аще) восхощет, сотворит,
Be not hasty; you shall go forth out of his presence: stand not in an evil matter; for he will do whatever he shall please,
4 якоже царь обладаяй, и кто речет ему: что твориши?
even as a king having power: and who will say to him, What do you?
5 Храняй заповедь не увесть глагола лукавна: и время суда весть сердце мудраго,
He that keeps the commandment shall not know an evil thing: and the heart of the wise knows the time of judgment.
6 яко всяцей вещи есть время и суд: яко разум человека мног (есть) на нем,
For to every thing there is time and judgment; for the knowledge of a man is great to him.
7 яко несть ведящаго, что будущее: зане якоже будет, кто возвестит ему?
For there is no one that knows what is going to be: for who shall tell him how it shall be?
8 Несть человека владущаго духом, еже возбранити духу: и несть владущаго в день смерти, и несть посла в день брани: и не спасет нечестие сущаго в нем.
There is no man that has power over the spirit to retain the spirit; and there is no power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in the day of the battle; neither shall ungodliness save her votary.
9 И все сие видех, и вдах сердце мое во все сотворение, еже сотворено есть под солнцем, вся, во еликих обладан есть человек над человеком, еже озлобити его.
So I saw all this, and I applied my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; all the things wherein man has power over man to afflict him.
10 И тогда видех нечестивыя во гробы внесены, и от святаго: и идоша и похвалени быша во граде, яко сице сотвориша. И сие суета.
And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, and [that] out of the holy place: and they departed, and were praised in the city, because they had done thus: this also is vanity.
11 Яко несть пререкания бывающаго творящым лукавое вскоре: сего ради уверися сердце сынов человеческих в них, еже сотворити лукавое.
Because there is no contradiction made on the part of those who do evil quickly, therefore the heart of the children of men is fully determined in them to do evil.
12 Иже согреши, сотворил есть лукавое, оттоле, и от долготы их: ибо и вем аз, яко есть благо боящымся Бога, да боятся от лица Его,
He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:
13 и не будет благо нечестивому, и не продолжит дний в сени, иже несть бояйся от лица Божия.
but it shall not be well with the ungodly, and he shall not prolong his days, [which are] as a shadow; forasmuch as he fears not before God.
14 Есть суета, яже сотворена есть на земли: яко суть праведнии, на нихже постизает яко творение нечестивых, и суть нечестивии, на нихже постизает яко творение праведных. Рех, яко и сие суета.
There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there are righteous persons to whom it happens according to the doing of the ungodly; and there are ungodly men, to whom it happens according to the doing of the just: I said, This is also vanity.
15 И похвалих аз веселие, яко несть благо человеку под солнцем, но токмо еже ясти и пити и еже веселитися: и то прибыток ему в труде его во днех живота его, ихже дал есть ему Бог под солнцем.
Then I praised mirth, because there is no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry: and this shall attend him in his labor all the days of his life, which God has given him under the sun.
16 В нихже дах сердце мое, еже разумети мудрость и еже ведети попечение сотвореное на земли: яко и во дни и в нощи сна во очию своею несть видяй.
Whereupon I set my heart to know wisdom, and to perceive the trouble that was wrought upon the earth: for there is that neither by day nor night sees sleep with his eyes.
17 И видех вся творения Божия, яко не может человек изобрести творение сотвореное под солнцем: елика аще потрудится человек обрести, и не обрящет: и елика аще речет мудрый уразумети, не возможет обрести. Темже все сие вдах в сердце мое, и сердце мое все сие виде.
And I saw all the works of God, that a man shall not be able to discover the work which is wrought under the sun; whatever things a man shall endeavor to seek, however a man may labor to seek it, yet he shall not find it; yes, how much soever a wise man may speak of knowing it, he shall not be able to find it: for I applied all this to my heart, and my heart has seen all this.
