1Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
1احفظ قدمك حين تذهب الى بيت الله فالاستماع اقرب من تقديم ذبيحة الجهال لانهم لا يبالون بفعل الشر.
2Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
2لا تستعجل فمك ولا يسرع قلبك الى نطق كلام قدام الله. لان الله في السموات وانت على الارض فلذلك لتكن كلماتك قليلة.
3For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
3لان الحلم يأتي من كثرة الشغل وقول الجهل من كثرة الكلام.
4When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
4اذا نذرت نذرا لله فلا تتأخر عن الوفاء به. لانه لا يسرّ بالجهال. فاوف بما نذرته.
5Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
5ان لا تنذر خير من ان تنذر ولا تفي.
6Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
6لا تدع فمك يجعل جسدك يخطئ. ولا تقل قدام الملاك انه سهو. لماذا يغضب الله على قولك ويفسد عمل يديك.
7For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
7لان ذلك من كثرة الاحلام والاباطيل وكثرة الكلام. ولكن اخش الله
8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
8ان رأيت ظلم الفقير ونزع الحق والعدل في البلاد فلا ترتع من الأمر. لان فوق العالي عاليا يلاحظ والاعلى فوقهما.
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
9ومنفعة الارض للكل. الملك مخدوم من الحقل.
10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
10من يحب الفضة لا يشبع من الفضة ومن يحب الثروة لا يشبع من دخل. هذا ايضا باطل.
11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
11اذا كثرت الخيرات كثر الذين يأكلونها واي منفعة لصاحبها الا رؤيتها بعينيه.
12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
12نوم المشتغل حلو ان اكل قليلا او كثيرا ووفر الغني لا يريحه حتى ينام.
13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
13يوجد شر خبيث رأيته تحت الشمس. ثروة مصونة لصاحبها لضرره.
14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
14فهلكت تلك الثروة بامر سيء ثم ولد ابنا وما بيده شيء.
15As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
15كما خرج من بطن امه عريانا يرجع ذاهبا كما جاء ولا يأخذ شيئا من تعبه فيذهب به في يده.
16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
16وهذا ايضا مصيبة رديئة. في كل شيء كما جاء هكذا يذهب فايّة منفعة له للذي تعب للريح.
17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
17ايضا يأكل كل ايامه في الظلام ويغتم كثيرا مع حزن وغيظ
18Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
18هوذا الذي رأيته انا خيرا الذي هو حسن. ان يأكل الانسان ويشرب ويرى خيرا من كل تعبه الذي يتعب فيه تحت الشمس مدة ايام حياته التي اعطاه الله اياها لانه نصيبه.
19Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
19ايضا كل انسان اعطاه الله غنى ومالا وسلّطه عليه حتى ياكل منه وياخذ نصيبه ويفرح بتعبه فهذا هو عطية الله.
20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
20لانه لا يذكر ايام حياته كثيرا لان الله ملهيه بفرح قلبه