¹احفظ قدمك حين تذهب الى بيت الله فالاستماع اقرب من تقديم ذبيحة الجهال لانهم لا يبالون بفعل الشر.

¹Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and draw near to hear, rather than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they know not that they do evil.

²لا تستعجل فمك ولا يسرع قلبك الى نطق كلام قدام الله. لان الله في السموات وانت على الارض فلذلك لتكن كلماتك قليلة.

²Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God: for God is in the heavens, and thou upon earth; therefore let thy words be few.

³لان الحلم يأتي من كثرة الشغل وقول الجهل من كثرة الكلام.

³For a dream cometh through the multitude of business, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.

⁴اذا نذرت نذرا لله فلا تتأخر عن الوفاء به. لانه لا يسرّ بالجهال. فاوف بما نذرته.

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.

⁵ان لا تنذر خير من ان تنذر ولا تفي.

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

⁶لا تدع فمك يجعل جسدك يخطئ. ولا تقل قدام الملاك انه سهو. لماذا يغضب الله على قولك ويفسد عمل يديك.

⁶Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

⁷لان ذلك من كثرة الاحلام والاباطيل وكثرة الكلام. ولكن اخش الله

⁷For in the multitude of dreams are vanities; so with many words: but fear God.

⁸ان رأيت ظلم الفقير ونزع الحق والعدل في البلاد فلا ترتع من الأمر. لان فوق العالي عاليا يلاحظ والاعلى فوقهما.

⁸If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

⁹ومنفعة الارض للكل. الملك مخدوم من الحقل.

⁹Moreover the earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon the field.

¹⁰من يحب الفضة لا يشبع من الفضة ومن يحب الثروة لا يشبع من دخل. هذا ايضا باطل.

¹⁰He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.

¹¹اذا كثرت الخيرات كثر الذين يأكلونها واي منفعة لصاحبها الا رؤيتها بعينيه.

¹¹When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?

¹²نوم المشتغل حلو ان اكل قليلا او كثيرا ووفر الغني لا يريحه حتى ينام.

¹²The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.

¹³يوجد شر خبيث رأيته تحت الشمس. ثروة مصونة لصاحبها لضرره.

¹³There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

¹⁴فهلكت تلك الثروة بامر سيء ثم ولد ابنا وما بيده شيء.

¹⁴or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

¹⁵كما خرج من بطن امه عريانا يرجع ذاهبا كما جاء ولا يأخذ شيئا من تعبه فيذهب به في يده.

¹⁵As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go away again as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

¹⁶وهذا ايضا مصيبة رديئة. في كل شيء كما جاء هكذا يذهب فايّة منفعة له للذي تعب للريح.

¹⁶And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came so doth he go away, and what profit hath he, in having laboured for the wind?

¹⁷ايضا يأكل كل ايامه في الظلام ويغتم كثيرا مع حزن وغيظ

¹⁷All his days also he eateth in darkness, and hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.

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.

¹⁸Behold what I have seen good and comely: [it is] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labour wherewith [man] laboureth under the sun, all the days of his life which God hath given him: for that is his portion.

¹⁹ايضا كل انسان اعطاه الله غنى ومالا وسلّطه عليه حتى ياكل منه وياخذ نصيبه ويفرح بتعبه فهذا هو عطية الله.

¹⁹Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a gift of God.

²⁰لانه لا يذكر ايام حياته كثيرا لان الله ملهيه بفرح قلبه

²⁰For he will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.