¹The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

¹Besede Propovednika, sinu Davidovega, kralja v Jeruzalemu.

²Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

²Ničemurnost nečimurna! pravi Propovednik; ničemurnost ničemurna, vse je ničemurno!

³What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

³Kaj ima dobička človek od vsega truda svojega, s katerim se trudi pod solncem?

⁴One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

⁴Rod mineva, rod prihaja, a zemlja vedno ostaja.

⁵The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

⁵In solnce vzhaja in solnce zahaja in hiti k mestu svojemu, odkoder izhaja.

⁶The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

⁶Veter gre proti poldnevu in se obrača proti polnoči in kroži in kroži, in krožitve svoje vedno ponavlja veter.

⁷All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

⁷Vse reke teko v morje, in morje se ne prepolni; v kraj, kamor teko reke, tja vedno in vedno teko.

⁸All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

⁸Vse stvari so trudapolne: človek ne more tega dopovedati; oko se ne nasiti gledanja, ne uho poslušanja.

⁹The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

⁹Kar je bilo, bode zopet, in kar se je storilo, se bo zopet storilo, in nič novega ni pod solncem.

¹⁰Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

¹⁰Je li kaj, o čemer pravijo: Glej, to je novo? Zdavnaj je že bilo v vekih, ki so bili pred nami.

¹¹There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

¹¹Ni spomina prejšnjih rodov, in prihodnjim, ki še bodo, tudi ne bo spomina pri tistih, ki pozneje nastanejo.

¹²I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

¹²Jaz, Propovednik, sem bil kralj nad Izraelom v Jeruzalemu.

¹³And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

¹³In obrnil sem srce svoje v to, da bi z modrostjo preiskoval in zasledoval vse, kar se godi pod nebom: težko opravilo, ki ga je naložil Bog sinom človeškim, da se ž njim ukvarjajo.

¹⁴I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

¹⁴Videl sem vse dejanje, ki se godi pod solncem, in glej, vse je ničemurnost in lovljenje vetra.

¹⁵That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

¹⁵Kar je krivo, se ne more zravnati, in česar ni, se ne more šteti.

¹⁶I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

¹⁶Govoril sem v srcu svojem in rekel: Glej, dobil sem veliko modrost in prekosil vse, ki so bili pred menoj v Jeruzalemu, in srce moje je videlo obilost modrosti in spoznanja.

¹⁷And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

¹⁷In obrnil sem srce svoje v to, da spoznam modrost in da spoznam nespamet in neumnost: spoznal sem, da je tudi to lovljenje vetra.Zakaj pri mnogi modrosti je mnogo nejevolje, in kdor množi znanje, množi bolečino.

¹⁸For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

¹⁸Zakaj pri mnogi modrosti je mnogo nejevolje, in kdor množi znanje, množi bolečino.