Ecclesiastes 12

1 Remember nowe thy Creator in the daies of thy youth, whiles the euill daies come not, nor the yeeres approche, wherein thou shalt say, I haue no pleasure in them:

故に少き日に汝の造主を記えよ 即ち惡き日の來り年のよりて我は早何も樂むところ無しと言にいたらざる先

2 Whiles the sunne is not darke, nor ye light, nor the moone, nor the starres, nor the cloudes returne after the raine:

また日や光明や月や星の暗くならざる先 雨の後に雲の返らざる中に汝然せよ

3 When the keepers of ye house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow them selues, and the grinders shall cease, because they are few, and they waxe darke that looke out by ye windowes:

その日いたる時は家を守る者は慄ひ 力ある人は屈み 磨碎者は寡きによりて息み 窓より窺ふ者は目昏むなり

4 And the doores shall be shut without by the base sound of the grinding, and he shall rise vp at the voice of the birde: and all the daughters of singing shall be abased.

磨こなす聲低くなれば衢の門は閉づ その人は鳥の聲に起あがり 歌の女子はみな身を卑くす

5 Also they shalbe afraide of the hie thing, and feare shalbe in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grassehopper shall be a burden, and concupiscence shall be driuen away: for man goeth to the house of his age, and the mourners goe about in the streete.

かかる人は高き者を恐る畏しき者多く途にあり 巴旦杏は花咲くまた蝗もその身に重くその嗜欲は廃る 人永遠の家にいたらんとすれば哭婦衢にゆきかふ

6 Whiles the siluer coarde is not lengthened, nor the golden ewer broken, nor the pitcher broken at the well, nor the wheele broken at the cisterne:

然る時には銀の紐は解け金の盞は砕け吊瓶は泉の側に壊れ轆轤は井の傍に破ん

7 And dust returne to the earth as it was, and the spirit returne to God that gaue it.

而して塵は本の如くに土に皈り 霊魂はこれを賦けし神にかへるべし

8 Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.

傳道者云ふ空の空なるかな皆空なり

9 And the more wise the Preacher was, the more he taught the people knowledge, and caused them to heare, and searched foorth, and prepared many parables.

また傅道者は智慧あるが故に恒に知識を民に教へたり 彼は心をもちひて尋ね究め許多の箴言を作れり

10 The Preacher sought to finde out pleasant wordes, and an vpright writing, euen the wordes of trueth.

傳道者は務めて佳美き言詞を求めたり その書しるしたる者は正直して眞實の言語なり

11 The wordes of the wise are like goads, and like nailes fastened by the masters of the assemblies, which are giuen by one pastour.

智者の言語は刺鞭のごとく 會衆の師の釘たる釘のごとくにして 一人の牧者より出し者なり

12 And of other things beside these, my sone, take thou heede: for there is none ende in making many bookes, and much reading is a wearines of the flesh.

わが子よ是等より訓誡をうけよ 多く書をつくれば竟なし 多く学べば體疲る

13 Let vs heare the end of all: feare God and keepe his commandements: for this is the whole duetie of man.

事の全體の皈する所を聴べし 云く 神を畏れその誡命を守れ 是は諸の人の本分たり 神は一切の行爲ならびに一切の隠れたる事を善惡ともに審判たまふなり

14 For God will bring euery worke vnto iudgement, with euery secret thing, whether it be good or euill.