Ecclesiastes 8
1 Who is like the wise man? and to whom is the sense of anything clear? A man's wisdom makes his face shining, and his hard face will be changed.
Кто уведе мудрость? И кто весть разрешение глагола? Мудрость человека просветит лице его, а безстудный возненавиден будет лицем своим.
2 I say to you, Keep the king's law, from respect for the oath of God.
Уста царева сохрани, и о словеси клятвы Божия не скор буди.
3 Be not quick to go from before him. Be not fixed in an evil design, because he does whatever is pleasing to him.
От лица его пойдеши, не стани во словеси лукавне, яко все, еже (аще) восхощет, сотворит,
4 The word of a king has authority; and who may say to him, What is this you are doing?
якоже царь обладаяй, и кто речет ему: что твориши?
5 Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.
Храняй заповедь не увесть глагола лукавна: и время суда весть сердце мудраго,
6 For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.
яко всяцей вещи есть время и суд: яко разум человека мног (есть) на нем,
7 No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?
яко несть ведящаго, что будущее: зане якоже будет, кто возвестит ему?
8 No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Несть человека владущаго духом, еже возбранити духу: и несть владущаго в день смерти, и несть посла в день брани: и не спасет нечестие сущаго в нем.
9 All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.
И все сие видех, и вдах сердце мое во все сотворение, еже сотворено есть под солнцем, вся, во еликих обладан есть человек над человеком, еже озлобити его.
10 And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.
И тогда видех нечестивыя во гробы внесены, и от святаго: и идоша и похвалени быша во граде, яко сице сотвориша. И сие суета.
11 Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
Яко несть пререкания бывающаго творящым лукавое вскоре: сего ради уверися сердце сынов человеческих в них, еже сотворити лукавое.
12 Though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his life is long, I am certain that it will be well for those who go in fear of God and are in fear before him.
Иже согреши, сотворил есть лукавое, оттоле, и от долготы их: ибо и вем аз, яко есть благо боящымся Бога, да боятся от лица Его,
13 But it will not be well for the evil-doer; he will not make his days long like a shade, because he has no fear before God.
и не будет благо нечестивому, и не продолжит дний в сени, иже несть бояйся от лица Божия.
14 There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.
Есть суета, яже сотворена есть на земли: яко суть праведнии, на нихже постизает яко творение нечестивых, и суть нечестивии, на нихже постизает яко творение праведных. Рех, яко и сие суета.
15 So I gave praise to joy, because there is nothing better for a man to do under the sun than to take meat and drink and be happy; for that will be with him in his work all the days of his life which God gives him under the sun.
И похвалих аз веселие, яко несть благо человеку под солнцем, но токмо еже ясти и пити и еже веселитися: и то прибыток ему в труде его во днех живота его, ихже дал есть ему Бог под солнцем.
16 When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),
В нихже дах сердце мое, еже разумети мудрость и еже ведети попечение сотвореное на земли: яко и во дни и в нощи сна во очию своею несть видяй.
17 Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.
И видех вся творения Божия, яко не может человек изобрести творение сотвореное под солнцем: елика аще потрудится человек обрести, и не обрящет: и елика аще речет мудрый уразумети, не возможет обрести. Темже все сие вдах в сердце мое, и сердце мое все сие виде.
