Pridigar 1
1 Besede Pridigarja, Davidovega sina, kralja v Jeruzalemu.
These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 »Ničevost ničevosti, « pravi Pridigar, »ničevost ničevosti; vse je ničevost.«
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
3 Kakšno korist ima človek od vsega svojega truda, ki se ga loteva pod soncem?
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
4 En rod mineva in drug rod prihaja, toda zemlja ostaja na veke.
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
5 Tudi sonce vzhaja in sonce gre dol in hiti k svojemu kraju, kjer vstaja.
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
6 Veter gre proti jugu in se obrača k severu, nenehno se vrti naokoli in veter se ponovno vrača, glede na svoje kroge.
The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
7 Vse reke tečejo v morje, vendar morje ni polno; na kraj, od koder reke prihajajo, tja se ponovno vrnejo.
All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
8 Vse stvari so polne truda, človek tega ne more izreči. Oko ni nasičeno z gledanjem niti uho nasičeno s poslušanjem.
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
9 Stvar, ki je bila, to je ta, ki bo in to, kar je storjeno, je to, kar bo storjeno, in pod soncem ni nobene nove stvari.
What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Ali je katerakoli stvar, o čemer bi bilo lahko rečeno: »Glej, to je novo? To je bilo že od starih časov, ki so bili pred nami.«
Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
11 Ni spominjanja o prejšnjih stvareh niti ne bo kakršnegakoli spominjanja o stvareh, ki pridejo s tistimi, ki bodo prišle potem.
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
12 Jaz, Pridigar, sem bil kralj nad Izraelom v Jeruzalemu.
I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 Izročil sem svoje srce, da išče in preiskuje z modrostjo glede vseh stvari, ki so storjene pod nebom. To bolečo muko je Bog izročil človeškim sinovom, da bi bili vežbani s tem.
And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
14 Videl sem vsa dela, ki so storjena pod soncem in glej, vse je ničevost in draženje duha.
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
15 To, kar je skrivljeno, ne more biti izravnano; in to, kar je pomanjkljivo, ne more biti prešteto.
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 Posvetoval sem se s svojim lastnim srcem, rekoč: »Glej! Prišel sem k velikemu premoženju in prejel sem več modrosti kakor vsi tisti, ki so bili pred menoj v Jeruzalemu. Da, moje srce je imelo sijajno izkušnjo modrosti in spoznanja.
I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 Izročil sem svoje srce, da spoznam modrost in da spoznam norost in neumnost. Zaznal sem, da je tudi to draženje duha.
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
18 Kajti v mnogi modrosti je mnogo žalosti in kdor povečuje spoznanje, povečuje bridkost.«
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.
