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 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 Svetujem ti, da obdržiš kraljevo zapoved in da upoštevaš Božjo prisego.
I say, “Keep the king’s command!” because of the oath to God.
3 Ne bodi nagel, da greš izven njegovega pogleda. Ne stoj v zli stvari, kajti on počne karkoli mu ugaja.
Don’t be hasty to go out of his presence. Don’t persist in an evil thing, 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 is supreme. Who can say to him, “What are you doing?”
5 Kdorkoli se drži zapovedi, ne bo čutil nobene zle stvari in srce modrega človeka razlikuje tako čas kakor sodbo.
Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure.
6 Ker za vsak namen je čas in sodba, zato je človeška beda velika nad njim.
For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.
7 Kajti on ne ve, tega kar bo, kajti kdo mu lahko pove kdaj bo to?
For he doesn’t know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will 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 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 practise 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 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 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. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. 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 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 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 the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear 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 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 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 mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun than to eat, to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labour 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 on the earth (even though eyes see no sleep day or 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 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 labours 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.
