Eclesiastés 6
1 Hay otro mal que vi bajo el sol que prevalece entre los hombres:
I have seen something [else here] on this earth that troubles people.
2 El del hombre a quien ʼElohim da riquezas, bienes y honra, de modo que nada le falta de todo lo que desea su alma, pero a quien ʼElohim no capacita para disfrutarlos, sino lo disfrutan los extraños. Esto es vanidad y un mal doloroso.
God enables some people to get a lot of money and possessions and to be honored; they have everything [LIT] that they want. But God [sometimes] does not allow them to continue to enjoy those things. Someone else gets them and enjoys them. That seems senseless and unfair.
3 Si un hombre engendra 100 [hijos] y vive muchos años, aunque sean numerosos los días de su vida, si su alma no se sacia de buenas cosas, ni siquiera tiene un entierro apropiado, digo: Mejor que él es un aborto.
Someone might have 100 children and live for many years. But if he is not able to enjoy the things that he has acquired, and if he is not buried [properly after he dies], [I say that] a child that is dead when it is born is more fortunate.
4 Porque éste llega en un soplo y se va en oscuridad, y la oscuridad encubre su nombre.
That dead baby’s birth is meaningless; it does not even have a name. It goes directly to the place where there is only darkness.
5 No vio el sol, ni se enteró de nada, ni recibe sepultura, pero descansa mejor que el otro.
It does not [live to] see the sun or know anything. But it finds more rest than rich people do [who are alive].
6 Porque aunque aquél viva 1.000 años dos veces sin disfrutar del bien, ¿No van todos a un mismo lugar?
Even if people could live for 2,000 years, if they do not enjoy the things that God gives to them, [it would have been better for them never to have been born]. [All people who live a long time] certainly [RHQ] all go to the same place— [to the grave].
7 Todo el trabajo del hombre es para su boca, Y aun así, su alma no se sacia.
People work hard to [earn enough money to buy] food to eat [MTY], but [often] they never get enough to eat.
8 ¿Qué provecho tiene el sabio Más que el necio? ¿Qué ventaja tiene el pobre Que supo portarse entre los vivientes?
So it seems that [RHQ] wise people do not receive more lasting benefits than foolish people do. And it seems that [RHQ] poor people do not benefit from knowing how to conduct their lives.
9 Más vale lo que ven los ojos Que el divagar del alma. También esto es vanidad Y correr tras el viento.
It is better to enjoy the things that we already have [MTY] than to constantly want more things; continually wanting more things is [senseless], [like] the wind.
10 Lo que existe ya tiene nombre. Se sabe que es solo un hombre, Y que no puede contender Con el que es más fuerte que él.
All the things that exist [on the earth] have been given names. And everyone knows what people are like, [so] it is useless to argue with someone (OR, with God) who is stronger than we are.
11 Porque hay muchas palabras Que aumentan la vanidad. ¿Qué provecho saca el hombre?
The more [that we] talk, the more [often we say things that are] senseless, so it certainly does not [RHQ] benefit us to talk a lot.
12 Porque ¿quién sabe lo que es bueno para el hombre en la vida? Todos los días de su vana vida los pasará como una sombra, pues ¿quién dirá al hombre lo que sucederá después de él bajo el sol?
We live for only a short time; we disappear like [SIM] a shadow disappears [in the sunlight]. No one [RHQ] knows what is best for us while we are alive, and no one [RHQ] knows what will happen to us after we die [EUP].
