Pridigar 8
1 Kdo je kakor moder človek? In kdo pozna pomen stvari? Človekova modrost pripravi njegov obraz, da zasveti in srčnost njegovega obraza bo spremenjena.
Who is as the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
2 Svetujem ti, da obdržiš kraljevo zapoved in da upoštevaš Božjo prisego.
I say, Keep the king's command, and that because of the oath of God.
3 Ne bodi nagel, da greš izven njegovega pogleda. Ne stoj v zli stvari, kajti on počne karkoli mu ugaja.
Be not hasty to go out of his presence. Persist not in an evil matter, for he does whatever pleases him.
4 Kjer je kraljeva beseda, tam je moč, in kdo mu lahko reče: »Kaj počneš?«
For the king's word has power, and who may say to him, What are thou doing?
5 Kdorkoli se drži zapovedi, ne bo čutil nobene zle stvari in srce modrega človeka razlikuje tako čas kakor sodbo.
He who keeps a commandment shall know no evil thing. And a wise man's heart discerns the time and decision.
6 Ker za vsak namen je čas in sodba, zato je človeška beda velika nad njim.
For to every purpose there is a time and decision, although the distress of man is great upon him.
7 Kajti on ne ve, tega kar bo, kajti kdo mu lahko pove kdaj bo to?
For he knows not that which shall be, for who can tell him how it shall be?
8 Nobenega človeka ni, da ima moč nad duhom, da obdrži duha niti nima moči na dan smrti in v tej vojni ni nobene poravnave niti zlobnost ne bo osvobodila tistih, ki so ji izročeni.
There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.
9 Vse to sem videl in svoje srce posvetil vsakemu delu, ki je storjeno pod soncem. Je čas, v katerem en človek vlada nad drugim v svojo lastno škodo.
All this I have seen, and applied my heart 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 Tako sem videl zlobne pokopane, ki so prišli in odšli iz kraja svetih in so bili pozabljeni v mestu, kjer so tako počeli. Tudi to je ničevost.
So I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were praised in the city where they had so done. This also is vanity.
11 Ker obsodba zoper zlo delo ni izvršena naglo, zato je srce človeških sinov v njih popolnoma naravnano, da počno zlo.
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 Čeprav grešnik tisočkrat stori zlo in bodo njegovi dnevi podaljšani, vendar zagotovo vem, da bo dobro s tistimi, ki se bojijo Boga, ki se bojijo pred njim,
Though a sinner does evil a hundred times, and prolongs his days, yet surely I know that it shall be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.
13 toda z zlobnim ne bo dobro niti ne bo podaljšal svojih dni, ki so kakor senca, ker se pred Bogom ne boji.
But it shall not be well with a wicked man, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow, because he did not fear before God.
14 Je ničevost, ki je storjena na zemlji; da so pravični ljudje, ki se jim dogaja glede na delo zlobnih; ponovno, so zlobni ljudje, ki se jim dogaja glede na delo pravičnih. Rekel sem, da je tudi to ničevost.
There is a vanity which is done upon 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 Potem sem priporočal veselje, ker človek pod soncem nima boljše stvari, kot da jé in da pije in da je vesel, kajti to bo ostalo z njim od njegovega truda [vse] dni njegovega življenja, ki mu ga Bog daje pod soncem.
Then I commended joy, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be cheerful. For that shall abide with him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.
16 Ko sem usmeril svoje srce, da spoznam modrost in da vidim opravilo, ki je storjeno na zemlji (kajti tam je ta, ki niti podnevi niti ponoči s svojimi očmi ne vidi spanja),
When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is he who sees sleep with his eyes neither day nor night),
17 sem potem zagledal vsa Božja dela, da človek ne more spoznati dela, ki je storjeno pod soncem. Ker čeprav se človek trudi to spoznati, vendar tega ne bo našel. Da, nadalje, čeprav moder človek misli, da to pozna, vendar tega ne bo zmožen najti.
then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he shall not find it. Yea moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, yet he shall not be able to find it.
