传道书 5
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
于神前勿造次多言
5 你到神的殿要谨慎脚步，因为近前听胜过愚昧人献祭[a]，他们本不知道所做的是恶。 2 你在神面前不可冒失开口，也不可心急发言。因为神在天上，你在地下，所以你的言语要寡少。 3 事务多就令人做梦，言语多就显出愚昧。 4 你向神许愿，偿还不可迟延，因他不喜悦愚昧人。所以你许的愿应当偿还， 5 你许愿不还，不如不许。 6 不可任你的口使肉体犯罪，也不可在祭司[b]面前说是错许了。为何使神因你的声音发怒，败坏你手所做的呢？ 7 多梦和多言，其中多有虚幻，你只要敬畏神。
金银难餍人心货财亦无所益
8 你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，并夺去公义、公平的事，不要因此诧异。因有一位高过居高位的鉴察，在他们以上还有更高的。 9 况且地的益处归众人，就是君王也受田地的供应。
10 贪爱银子的不因得银子知足，贪爱丰富的也不因得利益知足。这也是虚空。 11 货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已。 12 劳碌的人不拘吃多吃少，睡得香甜；富足人的丰满，却不容他睡觉。
13 我见日光之下有一宗大祸患，就是财主积存资财，反害自己。 14 因遭遇祸患，这些资财就消灭，那人若生了儿子，手里也一无所有。 15 他怎样从母胎赤身而来，也必照样赤身而去，他所劳碌得来的，手中分毫不能带去。 16 他来的情形怎样，他去的情形也怎样，这也是一宗大祸患。他为风劳碌，有什么益处呢？ 17 并且他终身在黑暗中吃喝，多有烦恼，又有病患呕气。
18 我所见为善为美的，就是人在神赐他一生的日子吃喝，享受日光之下劳碌得来的好处，因为这是他的份。 19 神赐人资财丰富，使他能以吃用，能取自己的份，在他劳碌中喜乐，这乃是神的恩赐。 20 他不多思念自己一生的年日，因为神应他的心使他喜乐。
Ecclesiastes 5
New King James Version
Fear God, Keep Your Vows
5 Walk (A)prudently when you go to the house of God; and draw near to hear rather (B)than to give the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.
2 Do not be (C)rash with your mouth,
And let not your heart utter anything hastily before God.
For God is in heaven, and you on earth;
Therefore let your words (D)be few.
3 For a dream comes through much activity,
And (E)a fool’s voice is known by his many words.
4 (F)When you make a vow to God, do not delay to (G)pay it;
For He has no pleasure in fools.
Pay what you have vowed—
5 (H)Better not to vow than to vow and not pay.
6 Do not let your (I)mouth cause your flesh to sin, (J)nor say before the messenger of God that it was an error. Why should God be angry at your [a]excuse and destroy the work of your hands? 7 For in the multitude of dreams and many words there is also vanity. But (K)fear God.
The Vanity of Gain and Honor
8 If you (L)see the oppression of the poor, and the violent [b]perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for (M)high official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.
9 Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.
10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.
11 When goods increase,
They increase who eat them;
So what profit have the owners
Except to see them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.
13 (N)There is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt.
14 But those riches perish through [c]misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15 (O)As he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand.
16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And (P)what profit has he (Q)who has labored for the wind?
17 All his days (R)he also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.
18 Here is what I have seen: (S)It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; (T)for it is his [d]heritage. 19 As for (U)every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his [e]heritage and rejoice in his labor—this is the (V)gift of God. 20 For he will not dwell unduly on the days of his life, because God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 5:6 Lit. voice
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 wresting
- Ecclesiastes 5:14 Lit. bad business
- Ecclesiastes 5:18 Lit. portion
- Ecclesiastes 5:19 Lit. portion
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