Ecclesiastes 5
1 Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
汝ヱホバの室にいたる時にはその足を愼め 進みよりて聴聞は愚なる者の犠牲にまさる 彼等はその惡をおこなひをることを知ざるなり
2 Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth — so let not the number of your words be great.
汝神の前にありては軽々し口を開くなかれ 心を攝めて妄に言をいだすなかれ 其は神は天にいまし汝は地にをればなり 然ば汝言詞を少からしめよ
3 As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
夫夢は事の繁多によりて生じ 愚なる者の聲は言の衆多によりて識るなり
4 When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
汝神に誓願をかけなば之を還すことを怠るなかれ 神は愚なる者を悦びたまはざるなり 汝はそのかけし誓願を還すべし
5 It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
誓願をかけてこれを還さざるよりは寧ろ誓願をかけざるは汝に善し
6 Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
汝の口をもて汝の身に罪を犯さしむるたかれ 亦使者の前に其は過誤なりといふべからず 恐くは神汝の言を怒り汝の手の所爲を滅したまはん
7 Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
夫夢多ければ空たる事多し 言詞の多きもまた然り 汝ヱホバを畏め
8 If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
汝國の中に貧き者を虐遇る事および公道と公義を枉ることあるを見るもその事あるを怪むなかれ 其はその位高き人よりも高き者ありてその人を伺へばなり又其等よりも高き者あるなり
9 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
國の利益は全く是にあり 即ち王者が農事に勤むるにあるなり
10 He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
銀を好む者は銀に飽こと無し 豊富ならんことを好む者は得るところ有らず 是また空なり
11 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
貨財増せばこれを食む者も増すなり その所有主は唯日にこれを看るのみ その外に何の益かあらん
12 The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
労する者はその食ふところは多きも少きも快く睡るなり 然れども富者はその貨財の多きがために睡ることを得せず
13 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun — wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
我また日の下に患の大なる者あるを見たり すなはち財寶のこれを蓄ふる者の身に害をおよぼすことある是なり
14 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
その財寶はまた災難によりて失落ことあり 然ばその人子を挙ることあらんもその手には何物もあることなし
15 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
人は母の胎より出て釆りしごとくにまた裸體にして皈りゆくべし その労苦によりて得たる者を毫厘も手にとりて携へゆくことを得ざるなり
16 And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
人は全くその來りしごとくにまた去ゆかざるを得ず 是また患の大なる者なり 抑風を追て労する者何の益をうること有んや
17 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
人は生命の涯黒暗の中に食ふことを爲す また憂愁多かり 疾病身にあり 憤怒あり
18 This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
視よ我は斯観たり 人の身にとりて善かつ美なる者は 神にたまはるその生命の極食飮をなし 且その日の下に労して働ける労苦によりて得るところの福禄を身に享るの事なり是その分なればなり
19 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
何人によらず神がこれに富と財を與へてそれに食ことを得せしめ またその分を取りその労苦によりて快樂を得ることをせさせたまふあれば その事は神の賜物たるなり
20 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.
かかる人はその年齢の日を憶ゆること深からず 其は神これが心の喜ぶところにしたがひて應ることを爲したまへばなり
