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.

¹Pazi na nogo svojo, kadar greš v hišo Božjo! Kajti bližati se, da poslušaš, je bolje nego darovati bedakov daritve; nimajo namreč spoznanja, da delajo hudo.

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.

²Ne bodi nagel s svojimi usti in srcu svojemu ne daj hiteti, da izreče besedo pred Bogom; zakaj Bog je v nebesih, ti pa si na zemlji: zato bodi tvojih besed malo.

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

³Kajti sanje prihajajo po mnogem trudu in bedak se oglaša z mnogimi besedami.

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.

⁴Kadar storiš obljubo Bogu, je ne odlašaj izpolniti; kajti Njemu ne ugajajo bedaki. Kar obljubiš, izpolni!

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

⁵Bolje, da ne obljubiš, nego da obljubiš, a ne izpolniš.

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?

⁶Ne dopusti ustom svojim, da v greh zapeljejo meso tvoje, in ne govóri pred poslancem Božjim: Bila je pomota! Čemu naj bi se jezil Bog nad glasom tvojim in uničil rok tvojih delo?

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

⁷Zakaj pri mnogih sanjah in besedah je tudi mnogo ničemurnosti. Le Boga se boj!

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.

⁸Kadar vidiš, da stiskajo uboge ter da siloma dero sodbo in pravičnost v deželi, ne čudi se tej reči; kajti visok čuva nad visokim, a nad njima je še višji.

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

⁹A kralj, ki služi poljedelstvu, je vsekakor deželi v prid.

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

¹⁰Kdor ljubi srebro, ne bo nikoli srebra sit, in kdor ljubi bogastvo, ne dobi nikdar dosti. Tudi to je ničemurnost.

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?

¹¹Ko se množi imovina, se množe tudi tisti, ki jo uživajo; in kakšen užitek ima posestnik, nego da jo z očmi gleda?

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.

¹²Delavcu je spanje sladko, če je jedel veliko ali malo; bogatinu pa sitost ne da mirno spati.

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

¹³Je hudo zlo, ki sem ga videl pod solncem: bogastvo, ki si ga hrani njega posestnik sebi v nesrečo.

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

¹⁴Ker tako bogastvo se izgubi po zli nezgodi, in sinu, ki ga je rodil, ga ne ostane nič v roki.

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.

¹⁵Kakor je prišel nag iz telesa matere svoje, prav tako zopet odide in za trud svoj ne vzame še kaj malega ne, kar bi v roki odnesel s seboj.

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?

¹⁶Pa tudi to je hudo zlo, da mora oditi prav tako, kakor je prišel; in kaj ima dobička od tega, da se trudi za veter?

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

¹⁷Vrhutega mora vse svoje dni jesti v temi in ima dosti nejevolje, bolezni in jeze.

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.

¹⁸Glej, kar sem spoznal za dobro in za lepo: da človek jé in pije in uživa dobro pri vsem trudu svojem, s katerim se trudi pod solncem, vse dni svojega življenja, kar mu jih je Bog dal; kajti to je delež njegov.

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.

¹⁹Saj vsakemu človeku, ki mu je Bog dal bogastvo in zaklade in ga je pooblastil, da to uživa in vzame delež svoj in se veseli pri trudu svojem, prav to je dar Božji.Kajti ne bo se veliko spominjal dni življenja svojega; ker mu Bog odgovarja v veselju srca njegovega.

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

²⁰Kajti ne bo se veliko spominjal dni življenja svojega; ker mu Bog odgovarja v veselju srca njegovega.