Ecclesiastes 11

1 Cast your bread upon the waters: for you shall find it after many days.

汝の糧食を水の上に投げよ 多くの日の後に汝ふたたび之を得ん

2 Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for you know not what evil shall be upon the earth.

汝一箇の分を七また八にわかて 其は汝如何なる災害の地にあらんかを知ざればなり

3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it shall be.

雲もし雨の充るあれば地に注ぐ また樹もし南か北に倒るるあればその樹は倒れたる處にあるべし

4 He that observes the wind shall not sow; and he that regards the clouds shall not reap.

風を伺ふ者は種播ことを得ず 雲を望む者は刈ことを得ず

5 As you know not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so you know not the works of God who makes all.

汝は風の道の如何なるを知ず また孕める婦の胎にて骨の如何に生長つを知ず 斯汝は萬事を爲たまふ神の作爲を知ことなし

6 In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening withhold not your hand: for you know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

汝朝に種を播け 夕にも手を歇るなかれ 其はその實る者は此なるか彼なるか又は二者ともに美なるや汝これを知ざればなり

7 Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun:

夫光明は快き者なり 目に日を見るは樂し

8 But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

人多くの年生ながらへてその中凡て幸福なるもなほ幽暗の日を憶ふべきなり 其はその數も多かるべければなり 凡て來らんところの事は皆空なり

9 Rejoice, O young man, in your youth; and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes: but know you, that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

少者よ汝の少き時に快樂をなせ 汝の少き日に汝の心を悦ばしめ汝の心の道に歩み汝の目に見るところを爲せよ 但しその諸の行爲のために神汝を鞫きたまはんと知べし

10 Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.

然ば汝の心より憂を去り 汝の身より惡き者を除け 少き時と壮なる時はともに空なればなり