Ecclesiastes 3
1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
天が下の萬の事には期あり 萬の事務には時あり
2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
生るるに時あり死るに時あり 植るに時あり植たる者を抜に時あり
3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
殺すに時あり醫すに時あり 毀つに時あり建るに時あり
4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
泣に時あり笑ふに時あり 悲むに時あり躍るに時あり
5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
石を擲つに時あり石を斂むるに時あり 懐くに時あり懐くことをせざるに時あり
6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
得に時あり失ふに時あり 保つに時あり棄るに時あり
7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
裂に時あり縫に時あり 黙すに時あり語るに時あり
8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
愛しむに時あり惡むに時あり 戦ふに時あり和ぐに時あり
9 What profit hath he that worketh in that in which he laboureth?
働く者はその労して爲ところよりして何の益を得んや
10 I have seen the labour, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.
我神が世の人にさづけて身をこれに労せしめたまふところの事作を視たり
11 He hath made every thing beautiful in its time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.
神の爲したまふところは皆その時に適ひて美麗しかり 神はまた人の心に永遠をおもふの思念を授けたまへり 然れば人は神のなしたまふ作爲を始より終まで知明むることを得ざるなり
12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.
我知る人の中にはその世にある時に快樂をなし善をおこなふより外に善事はあらず
13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.
また人はみな食飮をなしその労苦によりて逸樂を得べきなり 是すなはち神の賜物たり
14 I know that, whatever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be added to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.
我知る凡て神のなしたまふ事は限なく存せん 是は加ふべき所なく是は減すべきところ無し 神の之をなしたまふは人をしてその前に畏れしめんがためなり
15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
昔ありたる者は今もあり 後にあらん者は既にありし者なり 神はその遂やられし者を索めたまふ
16 And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.
我また日の下を見るに審判をおこなふ所に邪曲なる事あり 公義を行ふところに邪曲なる事あり
17 I said in my heart, God shall judge the righteous and the wicked: for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.
我すなはち心に謂けらく神は義者と惡者とを鞫きたまはん 彼處において萬の事と萬の所爲に時あるなり
18 I said in my heart concerning the state of the sons of men, that God might surely test them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.
我また心に謂けらく是事あるは是世の人のためなり 即ち神は斯世の人を検して之にその獣のごとくなることを自ら暁らしめ給ふなり
19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
世の人に臨むところの事はまた獣にも臨む この二者に臨むところの事は同一にして是も死ば彼も死るなり 皆同一の呼吸に依れり 人は獣にまさる所なし皆空なり
20 All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
皆一の所に往く 皆塵より出で皆塵にかへるなり
21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
誰か人の魂の上に昇り獣の魂の地にくだることを知ん
22 Therefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?
然ば人はその動作によりて逸樂をなすに如はなし 是その分なればなり 我これを見る その身の後の事は誰かこれを携へゆきて見さしむる者あらんや
