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 like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
2 Уста царева сохрани, и о словеси клятвы Божия не скор буди.
Keep the king's command, because of the oath to God.
3 От лица его пойдеши, не стани во словеси лукавне, яко все, еже (аще) восхощет, сотворит,
Do not be hasty to go out of his presence. Do not persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him,
4 якоже царь обладаяй, и кто речет ему: что твориши?
for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?"
5 Храняй заповедь не увесть глагола лукавна: и время суда весть сердце мудраго,
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
6 яко всяцей вещи есть время и суд: яко разум человека мног (есть) на нем,
For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
7 яко несть ведящаго, что будущее: зане якоже будет, кто возвестит ему?
For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will 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 who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
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 have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
10 И тогда видех нечестивыя во гробы внесены, и от святаго: и идоша и похвалени быша во граде, яко сице сотвориша. И сие суета.
So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from the holy place. They went and were praised in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.
11 Яко несть пререкания бывающаго творящым лукавое вскоре: сего ради уверися сердце сынов человеческих в них, еже сотворити лукавое.
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set 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,
Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent 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 wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear 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 on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is 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 commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany 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.
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither 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.
then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.
