傳道書 8
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1誰如智慧人呢？ 誰知道事情的解釋呢？ 人的智慧使他的臉發光， 並使他臉上的暴氣改變。
1The wisdom of a man shineth in his countenance, and the most mighty will change his face.
2我 勸你 遵守王的命令；既指上帝起誓，理當如此。
2I observe the mouth of the king, and the commandments of the oath of God.
3不要急躁離開王的面前，不要固執行惡，因為他凡事都隨自己的心意而行。
3Be not hasty to depart from his face, and do not continue in an evil work: for he will do all that pleaseth him:
4王的話本有權力，誰敢問他說「你做甚麼」呢？
4And his word is full of power: neither can any man say to him: Why dost thou so?
5凡遵守命令的，必不經歷禍患；智慧人的心能辨明時候和定理。
5He that keepeth the commandments shall find no evil. The heart of a wise man understandeth time and answer.
6各樣事務 成就 都有時候和定理，因為人的苦難重壓在他身上。
6There is a time and opportunity for every business, and great affliction for man:
7他不知道將來的事，因為將來如何，誰能告訴他呢？
7Because he is ignorant of things past, and things to come he cannot know by any messenger.
8無人有權力掌管生命，將生命留住；也無人有權力掌管死期；這場爭戰，無人能免；邪惡也不能救那好行邪惡的人。
8It is not in man’s power to stop the spirit, neither hath he power in the day of death, neither is he suffered to rest when war is at hand, neither shall wickedness save the wicked.
9這一切我都見過，也專心查考日光之下所做的一切事。有時這人管轄那人，令人受害。
9All these things I have considered, and applied my heart to all the works that are done under the sun. Sometimes one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
10我見惡人埋葬，歸入 墳墓 ；又見行正直事的離開聖地，在城中被人忘記。這也是虛空。
10I saw the wicked buried: who also when they were yet living were in the holy place, and were praised in the city as men of just works: but this also is vanity.
11因為斷定罪名不立刻施刑，所以世人滿心作惡。
11For because sentence is not speedily pronounced against the evil, the children of men commit evils without any fear.
12罪人雖然作惡百次，倒享長久的年日；然而我準知道，敬畏上帝的，就是在他面前敬畏的人，終久必得福樂。
12But though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and by patience be borne withal, I know from thence that it shall be well with them that fear God, who dread his face.
13惡人卻不得福樂，也不得長久的年日；這年日好像影兒，因他不敬畏上帝。
13But let it not be well with the wicked, neither let his days be prolonged, but as a shadow let them pass away that fear not the face of the Lord.
14世上有一件虛空的事，就是義人所遭遇的，反照惡人所行的；又有惡人所遭遇的，反照義人所行的。我說，這也是虛空。
14There is also another vanity, which is done upon the earth. There are just men to whom evils happen, as though they had done the works of the wicked: and there are wicked men, who are as secure, as though they had the deeds of the just: but this also I judge most vain.
15我就稱讚快樂，原來人在日光之下，莫強如吃喝快樂；因為他在日光之下，上帝賜他一生的年日，要從勞碌中，時常享受所得的。
15Therefore I commended mirth, because there was no good for a man under the sun, but to eat, and drink, and be merry, and that he should take nothing else with him of his labour in the days of his life, which God hath given him under the sun.
16我專心求智慧，要看世上所做的事。（有晝夜不睡覺不合眼的。）
16And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to understand the distraction that is upon earth: for there are some that day and night take no sleep with their eyes.
17我就看明上帝一切的作為，知道人查不出日光之下所做的事；任憑他費多少力尋查，都查不出來，就是智慧人雖想知道，也是查不出來。
17And I understood that man can find no reason of all those works of God that are done under the sun: and the more he shall labour to seek, so much the less shall he find: yea, though the wise man shall say, that he knoweth it, he shall not be able to find it.
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