Книга Екклезиаста 8
1 Кто уведе мудрость? И кто весть разрешение глагола? Мудрость человека просветит лице его, а безстудный возненавиден будет лицем своим.
Who [is] as the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
2 Уста царева сохрани, и о словеси клятвы Божия не скор буди.
I [counsel]: keep the command of a king, even for the sake of an oath [to] God.
3 От лица его пойдеши, не стани во словеси лукавне, яко все, еже (аще) восхощет, сотворит,
Do not be troubled at his presence, you may go, do not stand in an evil thing, for all that he pleases he does.
4 якоже царь обладаяй, и кто речет ему: что твориши?
Where the word of a king [is] power [is], and who says to him, “What do you do?”
5 Храняй заповедь не увесть глагола лукавна: и время суда весть сердце мудраго,
Whoever is keeping a command knows no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knows.
6 яко всяцей вещи есть время и суд: яко разум человека мног (есть) на нем,
For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great on him.
7 яко несть ведящаго, что будущее: зане якоже будет, кто возвестит ему?
For he does not know that which will be, for when it will be who declares to him?
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 ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness does not deliver its possessors.
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.
All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that has been done under the sun; a time that man has ruled over man to his own evil.
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 so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This [is] also vanity.
11 Яко несть пререкания бывающаго творящым лукавое вскоре: сего ради уверися сердце сынов человеческих в них, еже сотворити лукавое.
Because sentence has not been done [on] an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within 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,
Though a sinner is doing evil one hundred [times], and prolonging [himself] for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him.
13 и не будет благо нечестивому, и не продолжит дний в сени, иже несть бояйся от лица Божия.
And good is not to the wicked, and he does not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing 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 that has been done on the earth, that there are righteous ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones to whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that 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.
And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remains with him of his labor the days of his life that God has given to 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.
When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that has been done on the earth (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),
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.
then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that has been done under the sun, because though man labor to seek, yet he does not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.
