Pridigar 1
1 Besede Pridigarja, Davidovega sina, kralja v Jeruzalemu.
Here are the words of the Teacher, the king of Jerusalem, David's son.
2 »Ničevost ničevosti, « pravi Pridigar, »ničevost ničevosti; vse je ničevost.«
“Everything passes—it's so temporary! It's all so hard to understand!” says the Teacher.
3 Kakšno korist ima človek od vsega svojega truda, ki se ga loteva pod soncem?
What benefit do you get for slaving away in this life?
4 En rod mineva in drug rod prihaja, toda zemlja ostaja na veke.
People come, and people go, but the earth lasts forever!
5 Tudi sonce vzhaja in sonce gre dol in hiti k svojemu kraju, kjer vstaja.
The sun comes up, and the sun goes down, and then rushes to its place to rise again.
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 south, and then turns to the north. Round and round it spins, finally coming full circle.
7 Vse reke tečejo v morje, vendar morje ni polno; na kraj, od koder reke prihajajo, tja se ponovno vrnejo.
Streams all flow into the sea, but the sea never becomes full. The streams return to the place from where they came.
8 Vse stvari so polne truda, človek tega ne more izreči. Oko ni nasičeno z gledanjem niti uho nasičeno s poslušanjem.
Everything just keeps on going. You can't say all there is to say. You can't see all there is to see. You can't hear all there is to hear.
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.
Everything that was will continue to be; everything that has been done will be done again. Nothing new ever happens here.
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.«
There's nothing anyone can point to and say, “Look! Here's something new.” In fact it's been around for ages, long before our time.
11 Ni spominjanja o prejšnjih stvareh niti ne bo kakršnegakoli spominjanja o stvareh, ki pridejo s tistimi, ki bodo prišle potem.
The problem is we don't remember people from the past, and people in the future won't remember those who came before them.
12 Jaz, Pridigar, sem bil kralj nad Izraelom v Jeruzalemu.
I am the Teacher, and I was king over Israel, reigning from 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.
I decided to focus my mind to explore, using wisdom, everything that happens here on earth. This is a tough assignment that God has given people to keep them busy!
14 Videl sem vsa dela, ki so storjena pod soncem in glej, vse je ničevost in draženje duha.
I examined everything people do here on earth, and discovered that it's all so temporary—trying to understand it is like trying to pin down the wind!
15 To, kar je skrivljeno, ne more biti izravnano; in to, kar je pomanjkljivo, ne more biti prešteto.
You can't straighten what is twisted, and you can't count what isn't there.
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 thought to myself, “I've become very wise, wiser than all the kings of Jerusalem before me. My mind has gained a great deal 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 decided to use my mind to learn everything about wisdom, and madness and foolishness as well. But I found out that this is as hard as trying to catch hold of the wind.
18 Kajti v mnogi modrosti je mnogo žalosti in kdor povečuje spoznanje, povečuje bridkost.«
For with great wisdom comes great frustration. The greater the knowledge, the greater the pain.
