Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Ko je kao mudri? i ko zna šta znaèe stvari? Mudrost prosvjetljuje èovjeku lice, a tvrdoæa lica njegova mijenja se.
2 I [counsel thee], Keep the king’s command, and that in regard of the oath of God.
Ja ti kažem: izvršuj zapovijest carevu, i to zakletve Božije radi.
3 Be not hasty to go out of his presence; persist not in an evil thing: for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
Ne budi brz da otideš ispred njega; ne stoj u zloj stvari, jer æe uèiniti što god hoæe.
4 For the king’s word [hath] power; and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
Jer gdje je god rijeè careva ondje je vlast, i ko æe mu reæi: šta radiš?
5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man’s heart discerneth time and judgment:
Ko izvršuje zapovijest, neæe znati za zlo, jer srce mudroga zna vrijeme i naèin.
6 for to every purpose there is a time and judgment; because the misery of man is great upon him:
Jer svaèemu ima vrijeme i naèin; ali mnoga zla snalaze èovjeka,
7 for he knoweth not that which shall be; for who can tell him how it shall be?
Što ne zna šta æe biti; jer kad æe što biti, ko æe mu kazati?
8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
Èovjek nije vlastan nad duhom da bi ustavio duh, niti ima vlasti nad danom smrtnijem, niti ima obrane u toj borbi; ni bezbožnost ne izbavlja onoga u koga je.
9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt.
Sve ovo vidjeh, i upravih srce svoje na sve što se radi pod suncem. Katkad vlada èovjek nad èovjekom na zlo njegovo.
10 So I saw the wicked buried, and they came [to the grave]; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.
I tada vidjeh bezbožnike pogrebene, gdje se vratiše; a koji dobro èinjahu otidoše sa svetoga mjesta i biše zaboravljeni u gradu. I to je taština.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Što nema odmah osude za zlo djelo, zato srce sinova ljudskih kipi u njima da èine zlo.
12 Though a sinner do evil a hundred times, and prolong his [days], yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, that fear before him:
Neka grješnik sto puta èini zlo i odgaða mu se, ja ipak znam da æe biti dobro onima koji se boje Boga, koji se boje lica njegova.
13 but it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong [his] days, [which are] as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
A bezbožniku neæe biti dobro, niti æe mu se produljiti dani, nego æe biti kao sjen onome koji se ne boji lica Božijega.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth, that there are righteous men unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there are wicked men to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
Taština je koja biva na zemlji što ima pravednika kojima biva po djelima bezbožnièkim, a ima bezbožnika kojima biva po djelima pravednièkim. Rekoh: i to je taština.
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that shall abide with him in his labor [all] the days of his life which God hath given him under the sun.
Zato ja hvalih veselje, jer nema ništa bolje èovjeku pod suncem nego da jede i pije i da se veseli; i to mu je od truda njegova za života njegova, koji mu Bog da pod suncem.
16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),
Kad upravih srce svoje da poznam mudrost i vidim šta se radi na zemlji, te ni danju ni noæu ne dolazi èovjeku san na oèi,
17 then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
Vidjeh na svijem djelima Božijim da èovjek ne može dokuèiti ono što se radi pod suncem, oko èega se trudi èovjek tražeæi, ali ne nalazi, i ako i mudarac reèe da zna, ipak ne može dokuèiti.
