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.

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 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.

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 through a 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 inadvertence. Wherefore should God be wroth at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy 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 are vanities; so with many words: but fear 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 a higher than the high is watching, and there are 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 earth is every way profitable: the king [himself] is dependent upon 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 also is 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 profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his 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 the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth 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 grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

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

¹⁴or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, 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 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.

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 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?

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 hath much vexation, and sickness, and irritation.

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

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.

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 power to eat thereof, and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labour: that is a 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 will not much remember the days of his life, because God answereth [him] with the joy of his heart.

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