Ecclesiastes 6
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)Translation
Douay-Rheims Bible, American Edition (1899)
Chinese Union Version, punctuated (Traditional)
1There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
1我見日光之下有一宗禍患重壓在人身上，
2A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.
2就是人蒙上帝賜他資財、豐富、尊榮，以致他心裏所願的一樣都不缺，只是上帝使他不能吃用，反有外人來吃用。這是虛空，也是禍患。
3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
3人若生一百個兒子，活許多歲數，以致他的年日甚多，心裏卻不得滿享福樂，又不得埋葬；據我說，那不到期而落的胎比他倒好。
4For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
4因為虛虛而來，暗暗而去，名字被黑暗遮蔽，
5He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
5並且沒有見過天日，也毫無知覺；這胎，比那人倒享安息。
6Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
6那人雖然活千年，再活千年，卻不享福，眾人豈不都歸一個地方去嗎？
7All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
7人的勞碌都為口腹，心裏卻不知足。
8What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
8這樣看來，智慧人比愚昧人有甚麼長處呢？窮人在眾人面前知道如何行，有甚麼長處呢？
9Better it is to see what thou mayst desire, than to desire that which thou canst not know. But this also is vanity, and presumption of spirit.
9眼睛所看的比心裏妄想的倒好。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
10He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.
10先前所有的，早已起了名，並知道何為人，他也不能與那比自己力大的相爭。
11There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
11加增虛浮的事既多，這與人有甚麼益處呢？
no verse 12 in this text
12人一生虛度的日子，就如影兒經過，誰知道甚麼與他有益呢？誰能告訴他身後在日光之下有甚麼事呢？
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