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传道书 1-4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
传道书 1-4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
万事虚空
1 以下是在耶路撒冷做王的大卫之子——传道者的话。
2 传道者说：虚空的虚空，
虚空的虚空，一切都是虚空。
3 人在日光之下的一切劳碌有什么益处呢？
4 一代过去，一代又来，
大地却永远长存。
5 太阳升起，太阳落下，
匆忙回到升起之地。
6 风吹向南，又转向北，
循环不息，周而复始。
7 江河涌流入海，海却不会满溢；
江河从何处流出，又返回何处。
8 万事令人厌烦，人述说不尽。
眼看，看不饱；
耳听，听不够。
9 以往发生的事，将来还会发生；
先前做过的事，将来也必再做。
日光之下，根本没有新事。
10 人可以指着哪件事说：
“看啊，这是新事”？
所谓的新事在我们以前早就有了。
11 过去的事无人记得，
将来的事后人也不记得。
智慧之虚空
12 我传道者曾在耶路撒冷做以色列的王。 13 我专心用智慧去研究、探索天下各样的事，发现上帝给世人的是极重的苦工。 14 我观察一切日光之下所做的事，看啊，都是虚空，好像捕风。 15 弯曲的不能变直，缺少的无法补足[a]。 16 我心里想：“我获得极大的智慧，远超过以前统治耶路撒冷的人。我拥有丰富的智慧和知识。” 17 我又专心察明智慧和知识、狂妄和愚昧，却发现这也是捕风。 18 因为智慧越高，愁烦越多；知识越多，痛苦越深。
2 我心里想：“来吧，不如尽情享乐，好好享受！”唉！结果这也是虚空。 2 我说：“欢笑只不过是一阵狂妄，享乐又有什么用！” 3 于是，我决意用酒使自己快乐，在体验愚昧的同时仍然保持理智，直到我明白在短暂的人生岁月中做何事才有益。 4 我大动工程，为自己建造房屋，栽种葡萄园， 5 开垦花圃园囿，种植各种果树， 6 开凿池塘，浇灌茂林。 7 我买了仆婢，又有生在家中的仆婢，拥有的牛羊远超过有史以来耶路撒冷的任何人。 8 我为自己积聚金银，搜罗列王和各省的奇珍异宝，得到男女歌优及许多妃嫔——都是世人所想望的。 9 这样，我便财势日增，享誉盛名，超过耶路撒冷历来所有的人。然而，我仍然保持智慧。 10 凡我眼睛爱看的、心里渴慕的，我都随心所欲，尽情享受。我的心从劳碌中得到欢乐，这是我劳碌所得的回报。 11 然而，当我回顾双手辛勤经营的一切成就时，唉，却发现都是虚空，都是捕风；日光之下的一切都毫无益处。 12 于是，我转念思考什么是智慧、狂妄和愚昧。其实以后接替君王的人除了重演历史之外，还能做什么呢？ 13 我领悟到智慧胜过愚昧，如同光明胜过黑暗。 14 智者高瞻远瞩，愚人却在黑暗中摸索。但我知道两者终必有同样的命运。 15 于是，我想：“既然愚人的命运也将是我的命运，我有智慧又怎么样呢？我只能说，‘这也是虚空。’” 16 因为智者和愚人一样，不过被人记得一时，日后都会被遗忘。两者都难逃死亡。 17 所以，我憎恶生命，因为在日光之下所做的一切都令我愁烦。唉！这一切都是虚空，都是捕风。 18 我憎恶自己在日光之下劳碌得来的一切，因为这些必留给后人。 19 谁知道那人是智者还是愚人呢？然而，他却要接管我在日光之下用智慧辛勤经营的产业。这也是虚空。 20 因此，我对自己在日光之下一切的劳碌感到绝望。 21 一个人用智慧、知识和技能所得来的一切，却要留给不劳而获的人享用，这也是虚空，是极大的不幸！ 22 世人在日光之下劳心劳力，究竟得到什么呢？ 23 他们一生充满痛苦，劳碌中尽是愁烦，即使夜间心里也不安宁。这也是虚空。 24 对人而言，没有什么比吃喝并享受劳碌之乐更好，我看这也是出自上帝的手。 25 离了上帝，谁还能吃喝享受呢？ 26 上帝把智慧、知识和喜乐赐给祂喜悦的人，却让罪人忙于积攒财富，然后把他们的财富赐给祂喜悦的人。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
万物有时
3 天下万物都有定期，
凡事都有定时。
2 出生有时，死亡有时；
耕种有时，拔出有时；
3 杀戮有时，医治有时；
拆毁有时，建造有时；
4 哭泣有时，欢笑有时；
哀伤有时，雀跃有时；
5 抛石有时，堆石有时[b]；
拥抱有时，避开有时；
6 寻找有时，遗失有时；
保存有时，丢弃有时；
7 撕裂有时，缝合有时；
沉默有时，发言有时；
8 爱慕有时，憎恶有时；
争战有时，和好有时。
9 那么，人劳碌做工有什么益处呢？ 10 我察觉上帝给世人重担，使他们忙碌不休。 11 祂使万事各按其时变得美好，又把永恒的意识放在人心里，人却不能测透上帝从始至终的作为。 12 我认识到，人生在世没有什么比欢乐、享受更好。 13 人人都该吃喝、享受自己劳苦的成果，这是上帝的恩赐。 14 我知道，上帝所做的都会存到永远，谁也不能增减。祂这样安排是叫人敬畏祂。 15 现在的事并不是新事，未来的事也早已发生过。上帝使过去的事再次出现。
世间的不公
16 我又看到日光之下，即使在公道和正义之地也有邪恶。 17 我心里想：“不论义人或恶人，上帝必审判，因为万事万务都有受审之时。” 18 我又想：“至于世人，上帝试验他们，是要他们知道自己与兽类无异。 19 因为人和兽的际遇并无分别，两者都难逃一死，活着都靠一口气。人并不比兽强，一切都是虚空。 20 两者都同归一处，出于尘土，也归于尘土。 21 谁知道人的气息[c]会向上升，兽的气息会降到地下呢？” 22 因此，我觉得没有什么比人享受工作之乐更好，因为这是人当得的。人死后，谁能使他看到世间的事呢？
4 于是，我又观察日光之下的一切欺压之事。我看见受欺压的泪流满面，无人安慰。因为欺压者有权有势，所以无人安慰他们。 2 我为那已死的人庆幸，因为他们比活着的人幸福。 3 不过，比以上两种人更幸运的是那从未出生的人，他们从未见过日光之下各样的恶行。 4 我又看见人的一切劳碌和成就原是出于争强好胜。这也是虚空，如同捕风。 5 愚人游手好闲，最后只能饿死。 6 拥有不多，心里安宁，胜过拥有很多，仍劳碌捕风。 7 我又看见日光之下一件虚空的事： 8 有一个人孤孤单单，没有儿子也没有兄弟，却终身劳碌。他虽然家道丰裕，仍不满足，从未想过“我不停地劳碌，放弃一切享受，究竟是为了谁？”这也是虚空，是一种悲哀。 9 两个人总比一个人好，因为二人劳碌同得美好的成果。 10 一人跌倒，总有同伴相扶。但孤身一人、跌倒了无人相扶的真悲惨！ 11 还有，二人同睡会暖和，一人独睡怎能暖和呢？ 12 遭遇攻击，一人独自不能抵挡，二人并肩就能对付。三股拧成的绳子不容易断。 13 贫穷但有智慧的青年，胜过年老、愚昧、不再纳谏的君王。 14 虽然这青年在本国出身贫寒，却能从囚犯成为君王。 15 我看见所有日光之下的人都起来拥护这位代替老君王的青年。 16 拥护他的人不计其数，以后的世代却对他不满。这也是虚空，如同捕风。
Ecclesiastes 1-4
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 1-4
New International Version
Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a](A) son of David, king in Jerusalem:(B)
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(C)
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?(D)
4 Generations come and generations go,
but the earth remains forever.(E)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
and hurries back to where it rises.(F)
6 The wind blows to the south
and turns to the north;
round and round it goes,
ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.(G)
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,(H)
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;(I)
there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
“Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,(J)
and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
by those who follow them.(K)
Wisdom Is Meaningless
12 I, the Teacher,(L) was king over Israel in Jerusalem.(M) 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.(N) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!(O) 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(P)
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(Q)
what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me;(R) I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(S) and also of madness and folly,(T) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
Pleasures Are Meaningless
2 I said to myself, “Come now, I will test you with pleasure(W) to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless. 2 “Laughter,”(X) I said, “is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?” 3 I tried cheering myself with wine,(Y) and embracing folly(Z)—my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.
4 I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself(AA) and planted vineyards.(AB) 5 I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. 6 I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees. 7 I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves(AC) who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me. 8 I amassed silver and gold(AD) for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces.(AE) I acquired male and female singers,(AF) and a harem[b] as well—the delights of a man’s heart. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem(AG) before me.(AH) In all this my wisdom stayed with me.
10 I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my labor,
and this was the reward for all my toil.
11 Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;(AI)
nothing was gained under the sun.(AJ)
Wisdom and Folly Are Meaningless
12 Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom,
and also madness and folly.(AK)
What more can the king’s successor do
than what has already been done?(AL)
13 I saw that wisdom(AM) is better than folly,(AN)
just as light is better than darkness.
14 The wise have eyes in their heads,
while the fool walks in the darkness;
but I came to realize
that the same fate overtakes them both.(AO)
15 Then I said to myself,
“The fate of the fool will overtake me also.
What then do I gain by being wise?”(AP)
I said to myself,
“This too is meaningless.”
16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be long remembered;(AQ)
the days have already come when both have been forgotten.(AR)
Like the fool, the wise too must die!(AS)
Toil Is Meaningless
17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(AT) 18 I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me.(AU) 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish?(AV) Yet they will have control over all the fruit of my toil into which I have poured my effort and skill under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So my heart began to despair over all my toilsome labor under the sun. 21 For a person may labor with wisdom, knowledge and skill, and then they must leave all they own to another who has not toiled for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune. 22 What do people get for all the toil and anxious striving with which they labor under the sun?(AW) 23 All their days their work is grief and pain;(AX) even at night their minds do not rest.(AY) This too is meaningless.
24 A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink(AZ) and find satisfaction in their own toil.(BA) This too, I see, is from the hand of God,(BB) 25 for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?(BC) 26 To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom,(BD) knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth(BE) to hand it over to the one who pleases God.(BF) This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
A Time for Everything
3 There is a time(BG) for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens:
2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,(BH)
3 a time to kill(BI) and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent(BJ) and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.
9 What do workers gain from their toil?(BK) 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race.(BL) 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time.(BM) He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[c] no one can fathom(BN) what God has done from beginning to end.(BO) 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink,(BP) and find satisfaction(BQ) in all their toil—this is the gift of God.(BR) 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.(BS)
15 Whatever is has already been,(BT)
and what will be has been before;(BU)
and God will call the past to account.[d]
16 And I saw something else under the sun:
In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.
17 I said to myself,
“God will bring into judgment(BV)
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity,
a time to judge every deed.”(BW)
18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals.(BX) 19 Surely the fate of human beings(BY) is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[e]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.(BZ) 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward(CA) and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”
22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work,(CB) because that is their lot.(CC) For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness
4 Again I looked and saw all the oppression(CD) that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
and they have no comforter.(CE)
2 And I declared that the dead,(CF)
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.(CG)
3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,(CH)
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.(CI)
4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(CJ)
5 Fools fold their hands(CK)
and ruin themselves.
6 Better one handful with tranquillity
than two handfuls with toil(CL)
and chasing after the wind.
7 Again I saw something meaningless under the sun:
8 There was a man all alone;
he had neither son nor brother.
There was no end to his toil,
yet his eyes were not content(CM) with his wealth.
“For whom am I toiling,” he asked,
“and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?”
This too is meaningless—
a miserable business!
9 Two are better than one,
because they have a good return for their labor:
10 If either of them falls down,
one can help the other up.
But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
11 Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm.
But how can one keep warm alone?
12 Though one may be overpowered,
two can defend themselves.
A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.
Advancement Is Meaningless
13 Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning. 14 The youth may have come from prison to the kingship, or he may have been born in poverty within his kingdom. 15 I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed the youth, the king’s successor. 16 There was no end to all the people who were before them. But those who came later were not pleased with the successor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 1:1 Or the leader of the assembly; also in verses 2 and 12
- Ecclesiastes 2:8 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
- Ecclesiastes 3:11 Or also placed ignorance in the human heart, so that
- Ecclesiastes 3:15 Or God calls back the past
- Ecclesiastes 3:19 Or spirit
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