Ecclesiastes 2
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
1我心裏說：「來吧，我以喜樂試試你，你好享福！」誰知，這也是虛空。
2Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?
2我指嬉笑說：「這是狂妄。」論喜樂說：「有何功效呢？」
3I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
3我心裏察究，如何用酒使我肉體舒暢，我心卻仍以智慧引導 我 ；又如何持住愚昧，等我看明世人，在天下一生當行何事為美。
4I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
4我為自己動大工程，建造房屋，栽種葡萄園，
5I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,
5修造園囿，在其中栽種各樣果木樹；
6And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,
6挖造水池，用以澆灌嫩小的樹木。
7I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:
7我買了僕婢，也有生在家中的僕婢；又有許多牛群羊群，勝過以前在 耶路撒冷 眾人所有的。
8I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:
8我又為自己積蓄金銀和君王的財寶，並各省的財寶；又得唱歌的男女和世人所喜愛的物，並許多的妃嬪。
9And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.
9這樣，我就日見昌盛，勝過以前在 耶路撒冷 的眾人。我的智慧仍然存留。
10And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
10凡我眼所求的，我沒有留下不給它的；我心所樂的，我沒有禁止不享受的；因我的心為我一切所勞碌的快樂，這就是我從勞碌中所得的分。
11And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
11後來，我察看我手所經營的一切事和我勞碌所成的功。誰知都是虛空，都是捕風；在日光之下毫無益處。
12I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)
12我轉念觀看智慧、狂妄，和愚昧。在王以後而來的人還能做甚麼呢？也不過行早先所行的就是了。
13And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
13我便看出智慧勝過愚昧，如同光明勝過黑暗。
14The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
14智慧人的眼目光明，愚昧人在黑暗裏行。我卻看明有一件事，這兩等人都必遇見。
15And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
15我就心裏說：「愚昧人所遇見的，我也必遇見，我為何更有智慧呢？」我心裏說，這也是虛空。
16For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
16智慧人和愚昧人一樣，永遠無人記念，因為日後都被忘記；可歎智慧人死亡，與愚昧人無異。
17And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
17我所以恨惡生命；因為在日光之下所行的事我都以為煩惱，都是虛空，都是捕風。
18Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
18我恨惡一切的勞碌，就是我在日光之下的勞碌，因為我得來的必留給我以後的人。
19Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?
19那人是智慧是愚昧，誰能知道？他竟要管理我勞碌所得的，就是我在日光之下用智慧所得的。這也是虛空。
20Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.
20故此，我轉想我在日光之下所勞碌的一切工作，心便絕望。
21For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
21因為有人用智慧、知識、靈巧所勞碌得來的，卻要留給未曾勞碌的人為分。這也是虛空，也是大患。
22For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?
22人在日光之下勞碌累心，在他一切的勞碌上得着甚麼呢？
23All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
23因為他日日憂慮，他的勞苦成為愁煩，連夜間心也不安。這也是虛空。
24Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.
24人莫強如吃喝，且在勞碌中享福，我看這也是出於上帝的手。
25Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
25論到吃用、享福，誰能勝過我呢？
26God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.
26上帝喜悅誰，就給誰智慧、知識，和喜樂；惟有罪人，上帝使他勞苦，叫他將所收聚的、所堆積的歸給上帝所喜悅的人。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
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