1Guard your steps when you go to God’s house; for to draw near to listen is better than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they don’t know that they do evil.
1احفظ قدمك حين تذهب الى بيت الله فالاستماع اقرب من تقديم ذبيحة الجهال لانهم لا يبالون بفعل الشر.
2Don’t be rash with your mouth, and don’t let your heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and you on earth. Therefore let your words be few.
2لا تستعجل فمك ولا يسرع قلبك الى نطق كلام قدام الله. لان الله في السموات وانت على الارض فلذلك لتكن كلماتك قليلة.
3For as a dream comes with a multitude of cares, so a fool’s speech with a multitude of words.
3لان الحلم يأتي من كثرة الشغل وقول الجهل من كثرة الكلام.
4When you vow a vow to God, don’t defer to pay it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay that which you vow.
4اذا نذرت نذرا لله فلا تتأخر عن الوفاء به. لانه لا يسرّ بالجهال. فاوف بما نذرته.
5It is better that you should not vow, than that you should vow and not pay.
5ان لا تنذر خير من ان تنذر ولا تفي.
6Don’t allow your mouth to lead you into sin. Don’t protest before the messenger that this was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
6لا تدع فمك يجعل جسدك يخطئ. ولا تقل قدام الملاك انه سهو. لماذا يغضب الله على قولك ويفسد عمل يديك.
7For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, as well as in many words: but you must fear God.
7لان ذلك من كثرة الاحلام والاباطيل وكثرة الكلام. ولكن اخش الله
8If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don’t marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
8ان رأيت ظلم الفقير ونزع الحق والعدل في البلاد فلا ترتع من الأمر. لان فوق العالي عاليا يلاحظ والاعلى فوقهما.
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
9ومنفعة الارض للكل. الملك مخدوم من الحقل.
10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
10من يحب الفضة لا يشبع من الفضة ومن يحب الثروة لا يشبع من دخل. هذا ايضا باطل.
11When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
11اذا كثرت الخيرات كثر الذين يأكلونها واي منفعة لصاحبها الا رؤيتها بعينيه.
12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
12نوم المشتغل حلو ان اكل قليلا او كثيرا ووفر الغني لا يريحه حتى ينام.
13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
13يوجد شر خبيث رأيته تحت الشمس. ثروة مصونة لصاحبها لضرره.
14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
14فهلكت تلك الثروة بامر سيء ثم ولد ابنا وما بيده شيء.
15As he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
15كما خرج من بطن امه عريانا يرجع ذاهبا كما جاء ولا يأخذ شيئا من تعبه فيذهب به في يده.
16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
16وهذا ايضا مصيبة رديئة. في كل شيء كما جاء هكذا يذهب فايّة منفعة له للذي تعب للريح.
17All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.
17ايضا يأكل كل ايامه في الظلام ويغتم كثيرا مع حزن وغيظ
18Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.
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.
19Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.
19ايضا كل انسان اعطاه الله غنى ومالا وسلّطه عليه حتى ياكل منه وياخذ نصيبه ويفرح بتعبه فهذا هو عطية الله.
20For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.
20لانه لا يذكر ايام حياته كثيرا لان الله ملهيه بفرح قلبه