¹财富享乐都是虚空

¹I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;` and lo, even it [is] vanity.

²对嬉笑，我说：“那是狂妄”；对享乐，我说：“这有什么作用呢？”

²Of laughter I said, `Foolish!` and of mirth, `What [is] this it is doing?`

³我心里筹思，怎样用酒使我的身体畅快，又保持愚昧，但我的内心仍由智慧引导；直到我看明世人，在诸天之下一生有限的年日中所行的，对他们有益的是什么。

³I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where [is] this — the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

⁴我大事发展：为自己建造房屋，栽种葡萄园，

⁴I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

⁵修造园囿，在园中栽种各类果树，

⁵I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit.

⁶挖造水池，用来浇灌培植树木的林园。

⁶I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees.

⁷我买了仆婢，也有生在家中的奴仆；又拥有大群牛羊，胜过任何比我先在耶路撒冷的人所拥有的。

⁷I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance — herd and flock — above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

⁸我又为自己积蓄金银，以及列王和各省的财宝。我又为自己招募男女歌手，收纳许多妃嫔，是世人所以为乐的。

⁸I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man — a wife and wives.

⁹于是我就日渐昌大，超过任何比我先在耶路撒冷的人；我的智慧仍然与我同在。

⁹And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

¹⁰我眼中所求的，我都不禁止；我心所喜欢的，我都没抑制。我的心因我的一切劳碌而快乐，这就是我从一切劳碌中所得的分。

¹⁰And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

¹¹然后，我省察我手所作的一切，和我劳碌所成就的，想不到一切都是虚空，都是捕风，在日光之下毫无益处。

¹¹and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

¹²智愚同一命运都是虚空我转过来观察智慧、狂妄和愚昧。王的继承人还能作什么呢？只不过作先前作过的罢了。

¹²And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what [is] the man who cometh after the king? that which [is] already — they have done it!

¹³于是我看出智慧胜过愚昧，如同光明胜过黑暗一样。

¹³And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

¹⁴智慧人的眼目明亮，愚昧人却走在黑暗中。我也知道同一的命运要临到这两种人身上。

¹⁴The wise! — his eyes [are] in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

¹⁵我自己心里说：“临到愚昧人身上的，也必临到我身上；那么，我为什么要更有智慧呢？”于是我心里说：“这也是虚空。”

¹⁵and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?` And I spake in my heart, that also this [is] vanity:

¹⁶因为智慧人和愚昧人一样，没有人永远记念他们，在未来的日子里，都会被人遗忘。可叹智慧人跟愚昧人一样，终必死亡。

¹⁶That there is no remembrance to the wise — with the fool — to the age, for that which [is] already, [in] the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

¹⁷因此我恨恶生命，因为在日光之下所发生的事，都使我厌烦。一切都是虚空，都是捕风。

¹⁷And I have hated life, for sad to me [is] the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁸劳碌一生都是虚空我恨恶我的一切劳碌，就是我在日光之下的劳碌，因为我不得不把劳碌的成果留给后人。

¹⁸And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

¹⁹那人将来是智是愚，有谁晓得呢？可是他竟要掌管一切我劳碌得来的，就是我在日光之下用智慧得来的。这又是虚空。

¹⁹And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also [is] vanity.

²⁰于是我转念，对日光之下我所劳碌的一切，心感绝望；

²⁰And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

²¹因为人用智慧、知识和技能所劳碌得来的，却必须留给未曾劳碌的人为分。这也是虚空，是极大的憾事。

²¹For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it — his portion! Even this [is] vanity and a great evil.

²²人的一切劳碌和操心，就是他在日光之下所劳碌的，对自己有什么益处呢？

²²For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

²³其实终其一生，他的担子既痛苦又烦恼，在夜间也不能安心。这也是虚空。

²³For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also [is] vanity.

²⁴人生享乐皆　神所赐人最好是吃喝，在自己的劳碌中自得其乐；我看这也是出于　神的手。

²⁴There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.

²⁵离开了他（“他”按照《马索拉抄本》应作“我”；现参照《七十士译本》翻译），谁能有吃的呢？谁能享乐呢？

²⁵For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

²⁶　神把智慧、知识和喜乐赐给他所喜悦的人，却使罪人作收集和积聚的差事，把所得的归给　神所喜悦的人。这也是虚空，也是捕风。

²⁶For to a man who [is] good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.