Pridigar 6
1 Je zlo, ki sem ga videl pod soncem in to je pogosto med ljudmi.
There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
2 Človek, ki mu je Bog dal bogastva, premoženje in čast, tako da za svojo dušo ne potrebuje ničesar od vsega, kar si želi, pa mu vendar Bog ne daje moči, da od tega jé, temveč to jé tujec. To je ničevost in to je zla bolezen.
A 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.
3 Če človek zaplodi sto otrok in živi mnogo let, tako da je dni njegovih let mnogo in njegova duša ne bo nasičena z dobrinami in tudi da nima pogreba, pravim, da je prezgodaj rojeni boljši kakor on.
If 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.
4 Kajti vstopa z ničevostjo in odhaja v temi in njegovo ime bo prekrito s temo.
For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
5 Poleg tega ni videl sonca niti ni poznal nobene stvari; ta ima več počitka kakor drugi.
He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
6 Da, čeprav je bilo rečeno, da živi dvakrat tisoč let, vendar ni videl dobrega; mar ne gredo vsi na en kraj?
Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
7 Vse človekovo delo je za njegova usta, pa vendar apetit ni potešen.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
8 Kajti kaj ima modri več kakor bedak? Kaj ima ubogi, da zna hoditi pred živečimi?
What hath the wise man more than the fool? and what the poor man, but to go thither, where there is life?
9 Boljši je pogled oči kakor tavanje poželenja. Tudi to je ničevost in draženje duha.
Better 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.
10 To, kar je bilo, je že imenovano in je znano, da je to človek; niti se ne more pričkati s tistim, ki je mogočnejši kakor on.
He 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.
11 Ker je tukaj mnogo stvari, ki povečujejo ničevost, kaj je človek boljši?
There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.
12 Kajti kdo ve kaj je boljše za človeka v tem življenju, vse dni njegovega praznega življenja, ki jih preživlja kakor senca? Kajti kdo lahko človeku pove kaj bo za njim pod soncem?
What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?
