傳道書 9
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
1我將這一切事放在心上，詳細考究，就知道義人和智慧人，並他們的作為都在上帝手中；或是愛，或是恨，都在他們的前面，人不能知道。
1All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred:
2凡臨到眾人的事都是一樣：義人和惡人都遭遇一樣的事；好人，潔淨人和不潔淨人，獻祭的與不獻祭的，也是一樣。好人如何，罪人也如何；起誓的如何，怕起誓的也如何。
2But all things are kept uncertain for the time to come, because all things equally happen to the just and to the wicked, to the good and to the evil, to the clean and to the unclean, to him that offereth victims, and to him that despiseth sacrifices. As the good is, so also is the sinner: as the perjured, so he also that sweareth truth.
3在日光之下所行的一切事上有一件禍患，就是眾人所遭遇的都是一樣，並且世人的心充滿了惡；活着的時候心裏狂妄，後來就歸死人那裏去了。
3This is a very great evil among all things that are done under the sun, that the same things happen to all men: whereby also the hearts of the children of men are filled with evil, and with contempt while they live, and afterwards they shall be brought down to hell.
4與一切活人相連的，那人還有指望，因為活着的狗比死了的獅子更強。
4There is no man that liveth always, or that hopeth for this: a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5活着的人知道必死；死了的人毫無所知，也不再得賞賜；他們的名無人記念。
5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing more, neither have they a reward any more: for the memory of them is forgotten.
6他們的愛，他們的恨，他們的嫉妒，早都消滅了。在日光之下所行的一切事上，他們永不再有分了。
6Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy are all perished, neither have they any part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.
7你只管去歡歡喜喜吃你的飯，心中快樂喝你的酒，因為上帝已經悅納你的作為。
7Go then, and eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with gladness: because thy works please God.
8你的衣服當時常潔白，你頭上也不要缺少膏油。
8At all times let thy garments be white, and let not oil depart from thy head.
9在你一生虛空的年日，就是上帝賜你在日光之下虛空的年日，當同你所愛的妻，快活度日，因為那是你生前在日光之下勞碌的事上所得的分。
9Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest, all the days of thy unsteady life, which are given to thee under the sun, all the time of thy vanity: for this is thy portion in life, and in thy labour wherewith thou labourest under the sun.
10凡你手所當做的事要盡力去做；因為在你所必去的陰間沒有工作，沒有謀算，沒有知識，也沒有智慧。
10Whatsoever thy hand is able to do, do it earnestly: for neither work, nor reason, nor wisdom, nor knowledge shall be in hell, whither thou art hastening.
11我又轉念：見日光之下，快跑的未必能贏；力戰的未必得勝；智慧的未必得糧食；明哲的未必得資財；靈巧的未必得喜悅。所臨到眾人的是在乎當時的機會。
11I turned me to another thing, and I saw that under the sun, the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the learned, nor favour to the skillful: but time and chance in all.
12原來人也不知道自己的定期。魚被惡網圈住，鳥被網羅捉住，禍患忽然臨到的時候，世人陷在其中也是如此。
12Man knoweth not his own end: but as fishes are taken with the hook, and as birds are caught with the snare, so men are taken in the evil time, when it shall suddenly come upon them.
13我見日光之下有一樣智慧，據我看乃是廣大，
13This wisdom also I have seen under the sun, and it seemed to me to be very great:
14就是有一小城，其中的人數稀少，有大君王來攻擊，修築營壘，將城圍困。
14A little city, and few men in it: there came against it a great king, and invested it, and built bulwarks round about it, and the siege was perfect.
15城中有一個貧窮的智慧人，他用智慧救了那城，卻沒有人記念那窮人。
15Now there was found in it a man poor and wise, and he delivered the city by his wisdom, and no man afterward remembered that poor man.
16我就說，智慧勝過勇力；然而那貧窮人的智慧被人藐視，他的話也無人聽從。
16And I said that wisdom is better than strength: how then is the wisdom of the poor man slighted, and his words not heard?
17寧可在安靜之中聽智慧人的言語，不聽掌管愚昧人的喊聲。
17The words of the wise are heard in silence, more than the cry of a prince among fools.
18智慧勝過打仗的兵器；但一個罪人能敗壞許多善事。
18Better is wisdom, than weapons of war: and he that shall offend in one, shall lose many good things.
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