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 boldness of his face shall be 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] to keep the king’s commandment, 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 sight: stand 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 Where the word of a king [is, there is] 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 feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment.
Ko izvršuje zapovijest, neæe znati za zlo, jer srce mudroga zna vrijeme i naèin.
6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore 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 when 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 in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are 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 ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Sve ovo vidjeh, i upravih srce svoje na sve što se radi pod suncem. Katkad vlada èovjek nad èovjekom na zlo njegovo.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also 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 an hundred times, and his [days] be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which 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 be just [men], unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be 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 merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth 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 mine 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 a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek [it] out, yet he shall not find [it; ] yea further; 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.
