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.

¹Strež svoju nohu, keď ideš do domu Božieho, a pristúp, aby si počul, lebo to je lepšie, ako keď blázni dávajú bitnú obeť, pretože nevedia o tom, keď robia zle.

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.

²Nenáhli svojimi ústami, a tvoje srdce nech sa neponáhľa vyniesť slovo pred Bohom, pretože Bôh je na nebesiach, a ty si na zemi, preto nech je tvojich slov málo.

³For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.

³Lebo jako ide spánok s mnohým zamestnaním, tak i hlas blázna s mnohými slovami.

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.

⁴Keby si sľúbil Bohu sľub, neodkladaj ho splniť; lebo neni záľuby v bláznoch; to, čo sľúbiš, splň!

⁵Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.

⁵Je lepšie, aby si nesľuboval, než aby si sľúbil a nesplnil.

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?

⁶Nedaj svojich úst, aby spôsobily to, že by hrešilo tvoje telo, ani nepovedz pred anjelom, že je to omyl. Prečo sa má Bôh hnevať na tvoj hlas a zkaziť dielo tvojich rúk?

⁷For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

⁷Lebo kde je mnoho snov, tam i márnosti, i kde mnoho slov. Boj sa istotne Boha!

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.

⁸Keby si videl utiskovanie chudobného a olupovanie súdu a spravedlivosti v krajine, nediv sa tej veci; lebo však vysoký s hora pozoruje vysokého a vysokí nad nimi.

⁹Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

⁹A užitok zeme je vo všetkom; i samému kráľovi slúži pole.

¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

¹⁰Ten, kto miluje peniaze, nenasýti sa peňazí; a ten, kto miluje bohatstvo, nenasýti sa dôchodku. Aj to je márnosť.

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?

¹¹Keď sa množí majetok, množia sa i tí, ktorí ho jedia; a jaký iný užitok má jeho pán krome že sa naň dívajú jeho oči?

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.

¹²Sladký je sen pracujúceho, už či jie málo a či mnoho; ale sýtosť bohatého nedopustí mu spať.

¹³There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

¹³Je šeredné zlo, ktoré som videl pod slnkom: bohatstvo, zachované jeho majiteľovi na jeho zlé.

¹⁴But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

¹⁴Také bohatstvo zhynie pre zlú správu, a jestli splodil syna, nieto ničoho v jeho ruke.

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.

¹⁵Jako vyšiel zo života svojej matky, zase tak odchádza nahý, jako prišiel, ani nevezme ničoho za svoju prácu, čo by odniesol vo svojej ruke.

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?

¹⁶Aj to je šeredné zlo, že celkom tak, ako prišiel, aj odíde, a tedy jaký má užitok z toho, že pracoval do vetra?

¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

¹⁷A ešte k tomu jedol po všetky svoje dni vo tme, pri čom zažil mnoho nevole i nemoci i hnevu.

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.

¹⁸Hľa, čo som ja videl: čo je dobré a čo pekné, je to, aby jedol človek a pil a videl dobré vo všetkej svojej práci, ktorou sa trudí pod slnkom ten skromný počet dní svojho života, ktoré mu dal Bôh, lebo to je jeho podiel.

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.

¹⁹Ako aj keď dal Bôh ktorémukoľvek človekovi bohatstvo a poklady a učinil ho pánom, aby jedol z toho a bral svoj podiel a radoval sa vo svojej práci, je to dar Boží.

²⁰For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

²⁰(Lebo nebude toho mnoho, čo bude pamätať na dni svojho života), pretože Bôh odpovedá radosťou jeho srdca.