Книга Екклезиаста 9
1 Яко праведнии и мудрии и делания их в руце Божией, и любве же и ненависти несть ведяй человек: вся пред лицем их, суета во всех.
I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.
2 Случай един праведному и нечестивому, благому и злому, и чистому и нечистому, и жрущему и не жрущему: якоже благий, тако согрешаяй, якоже кленыйся, тако бояйся клятвы.
But all things in the future remain uncertain, because all things happen equally to the just and to the impious, to the good and to the bad, to the pure and to the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and to those who despise sacrifices. As the good are, so also are sinners. As those who commit perjury are, so also are those who swear to the truth.
3 Сие лукаво во всяцем сотворенем под солнцем, яко случай един всем: и сердце сынов человеческих исполнися лукавствия, и прелесть в сердцах их и в животе их, и по сих к мертвым.
This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell. (questioned)
4 Понеже кто есть, иже приобщается ко всем живым? Есть надежда, яко пес живый, той благ паче льва мертва.
There is no one who lives forever, or who even has confidence in this regard. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 Понеже живии разумеют, яко умрут, мертвии же не суть ведущии ничтоже: и ктому несть им мзды, яко забвена есть память их,
For the living know that they themselves will die, yet truly the dead know nothing anymore, nor do they have any recompense. For the memory of them is forgotten.
6 и любовь их и ненависть их и рвение их уже погибе, и части несть им ктому во веки во всяцем творении под солнцем.
Likewise, love and hatred and envy have all perished together, nor have they any place in this age and in the work which is done under the sun.
7 Прииди, яждь в веселии хлеб твой и пий во блазе сердцы вино твое, яко уже угодна Богу творения твоя.
So then, go and eat your bread with rejoicing, and drink your wine with gladness. For your works are pleasing to God.
8 Во всяко время да будут ризы твоя белы, и елей на главе твоей да не оскудеет.
Let your garments be white at all times, and let not oil be absent from your head.
9 И виждь житие с женою, юже возлюбил еси, во вся дни живота юности твоея, данныя ти под солнцем, вся дни суетствия твоего: яко сие часть твоя в животе твоем и в труде твоем, имже ты трудишися под солнцем.
Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your uncertain life which have been given to you under the sun, during all the time of your vanity. For this is your portion in life and in your labor, with which you labor under the sun.
10 Вся, елика аще обрящет рука твоя сотворити, якоже сила твоя, сотвори: зане несть сотворение и помышление и разум и мудрость во аде, аможе ты идеши тамо. (Sheol h7585)
Whatever your hand is able to do, do it earnestly. For neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge will exist in death, toward which you are hurrying. (Sheol h7585)
11 Обратихся и видех под солнцем, яко ни легким течение, ниже сильным брань, ниже самому мудрому хлеб, ниже разумным богатство, ниже ведущым благодать: яко время и случай случится всем сим.
I turned myself toward another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the learned, nor grace to the skillful: but there is a time and an end for all these things.
12 Яко убо не разуме человек времене своего: якоже рыбы уловляемы во мрежи зле, и аки птицы уловляемы в сети: якоже сия, уловляются сынове человечестии во время лукаво, егда нападет на ня внезапу.
Man does not know his own end. But, just as fish are caught with a hook, and birds are captured with a snare, so are men seized in the evil time, when it will suddenly overwhelm them.
13 И сие видех, мудрость под солнцем, и велика есть во мне:
This wisdom, likewise, I have seen under the sun, and I have examined it intensely.
14 град мал, и мужей в нем мало, и приидет нань царь велик и окрест обляжет его, и соделает на него остроги велия,
There was a small city, with a few men in it. There came against it a great king, who surrounded it, and built fortifications all around it, and the blockade was completed.
15 и обрящет в нем мужа нищаго мудра, и сей спасет град мудростию своею, и человек не воспомяну мужа нищаго онаго.
And there was found within it, a poor and wise man, and he freed the city through his wisdom, and nothing was recorded afterward of that poor man.
16 И рех аз: блага мудрость паче силы, и мудрость нищаго уничижена, и словеса его не суть послушаема.
And so, I declared that wisdom is better than strength. But how is it, then, that the wisdom of the poor man is treated with contempt, and his words are not heeded?
17 Словеса мудрых в покои слышатся, паче клича обладающих в безумии.
The words of the wise are heard in silence, more so than the outcry of a prince among the foolish.
18 Блага мудрость паче орудий ратных: и согрешаяй един погубит благостыню многу.
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. And whoever offends in one thing, shall lose many good things.
