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美名愈于香膏

名誉强如美好的膏油,人死的日子胜过人生的日子。 往遭丧的家去强如往宴乐的家去,因为死是众人的结局,活人也必将这事放在心上。 忧愁强如喜笑,因为面带愁容终必使心喜乐。 智慧人的心在遭丧之家,愚昧人的心在快乐之家。

受智者责胜于听愚者歌

听智慧人的责备,强如听愚昧人的歌唱。 愚昧人的笑声好像锅下烧荆棘的爆声。这也是虚空。 勒索使智慧人变为愚妄,贿赂能败坏人的慧心。

事情的终局强如事情的起头,存心忍耐的胜过居心骄傲的。 你不要心里急躁恼怒,因为恼怒存在愚昧人的怀中。 10 不要说:“先前的日子强过如今的日子是什么缘故呢?”你这样问,不是出于智慧。

智慧美于产业

11 智慧和产业并好,而且见天日的人得智慧更为有益。 12 因为智慧护庇人好像银钱护庇人一样,唯独智慧能保全智慧人的生命,这就是知识的益处。 13 你要察看神的作为,因神使为曲的,谁能变为直呢? 14 遇亨通的日子你当喜乐,遭患难的日子你当思想,因为神使这两样并列,为的是叫人查不出身后有什么事。

15 有义人行义反致灭亡,有恶人行恶倒享长寿,这都是我在虚度之日中所见过的。 16 不要行义过分,也不要过于自逞智慧,何必自取败亡呢? 17 不要行恶过分,也不要为人愚昧,何必不到期而死呢? 18 你持守这个为美,那个也不要松手,因为敬畏神的人必从这两样出来。

义人难免无罪

19 智慧使有智慧的人比城中十个官长更有能力。 20 时常行善而不犯罪的义人,世上实在没有。 21 人所说的一切话,你不要放在心上,恐怕听见你的仆人咒诅你。 22 因为你心里知道,自己也曾屡次咒诅别人。

23 我曾用智慧试验这一切事,我说要得智慧,智慧却离我远。 24 万事之理离我甚远,而且最深,谁能测透呢? 25 我转念,一心要知道,要考察,要寻求智慧和万事的理由,又要知道邪恶为愚昧,愚昧为狂妄。 26 我得知有等妇人比死还苦,她的心是网罗,手是锁链,凡蒙神喜悦的人必能躲避她,有罪的人却被她缠住了。 27 传道者说:看哪,一千男子中,我找到一个正直人,但众女子中没有找到一个。我将这事一一比较,要寻求其理,我心仍要寻找,却未曾找到。 29 我所找到的只有一件,就是神造人原是正直,但他们寻出许多巧计。

Wisdom

A good name is better than fine perfume,(A)
    and the day of death better than the day of birth.(B)
It is better to go to a house of mourning
    than to go to a house of feasting,
for death(C) is the destiny(D) of everyone;
    the living should take this to heart.
Frustration is better than laughter,(E)
    because a sad face is good for the heart.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
    but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.(F)
It is better to heed the rebuke(G) of a wise person
    than to listen to the song of fools.
Like the crackling of thorns(H) under the pot,
    so is the laughter(I) of fools.
    This too is meaningless.

Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,
    and a bribe(J) corrupts the heart.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
    and patience(K) is better than pride.
Do not be quickly provoked(L) in your spirit,
    for anger resides in the lap of fools.(M)

10 Do not say, “Why were the old days(N) better than these?”
    For it is not wise to ask such questions.

11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing(O)
    and benefits those who see the sun.(P)
12 Wisdom is a shelter
    as money is a shelter,
but the advantage of knowledge is this:
    Wisdom preserves those who have it.

13 Consider what God has done:(Q)

Who can straighten
    what he has made crooked?(R)
14 When times are good, be happy;
    but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
    as well as the other.(S)
Therefore, no one can discover
    anything about their future.

15 In this meaningless life(T) of mine I have seen both of these:

the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
    and the wicked living long in their wickedness.(U)
16 Do not be overrighteous,
    neither be overwise—
    why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
    and do not be a fool—
    why die before your time?(V)
18 It is good to grasp the one
    and not let go of the other.
    Whoever fears God(W) will avoid all extremes.[a]

19 Wisdom(X) makes one wise person more powerful(Y)
    than ten rulers in a city.

20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(Z)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(AA)

21 Do not pay attention to every word people say,
    or you(AB) may hear your servant cursing you—
22 for you know in your heart
    that many times you yourself have cursed others.

23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said,

“I am determined to be wise”(AC)
    but this was beyond me.
24 Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
    who can discover it?(AD)
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(AE)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.(AF)

26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,(AG)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.(AH)

27 “Look,” says the Teacher,[b](AI) “this is what I have discovered:

“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
28     while I was still searching
    but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
    but not one upright woman(AJ) among them all.
29 This only have I found:
    God created mankind upright,
    but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:18 Or will follow them both
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:27 Or the leader of the assembly

美名愈于香膏

名誉强如美好的膏油,人死的日子胜过人生的日子。 往遭丧的家去强如往宴乐的家去,因为死是众人的结局,活人也必将这事放在心上。 忧愁强如喜笑,因为面带愁容终必使心喜乐。 智慧人的心在遭丧之家,愚昧人的心在快乐之家。

受智者责胜于听愚者歌

听智慧人的责备,强如听愚昧人的歌唱。 愚昧人的笑声好像锅下烧荆棘的爆声。这也是虚空。 勒索使智慧人变为愚妄,贿赂能败坏人的慧心。

事情的终局强如事情的起头,存心忍耐的胜过居心骄傲的。 你不要心里急躁恼怒,因为恼怒存在愚昧人的怀中。 10 不要说:“先前的日子强过如今的日子是什么缘故呢?”你这样问,不是出于智慧。

智慧美于产业

11 智慧和产业并好,而且见天日的人得智慧更为有益。 12 因为智慧护庇人好像银钱护庇人一样,唯独智慧能保全智慧人的生命,这就是知识的益处。 13 你要察看神的作为,因神使为曲的,谁能变为直呢? 14 遇亨通的日子你当喜乐,遭患难的日子你当思想,因为神使这两样并列,为的是叫人查不出身后有什么事。

15 有义人行义反致灭亡,有恶人行恶倒享长寿,这都是我在虚度之日中所见过的。 16 不要行义过分,也不要过于自逞智慧,何必自取败亡呢? 17 不要行恶过分,也不要为人愚昧,何必不到期而死呢? 18 你持守这个为美,那个也不要松手,因为敬畏神的人必从这两样出来。

义人难免无罪

19 智慧使有智慧的人比城中十个官长更有能力。 20 时常行善而不犯罪的义人,世上实在没有。 21 人所说的一切话,你不要放在心上,恐怕听见你的仆人咒诅你。 22 因为你心里知道,自己也曾屡次咒诅别人。

23 我曾用智慧试验这一切事,我说要得智慧,智慧却离我远。 24 万事之理离我甚远,而且最深,谁能测透呢? 25 我转念,一心要知道,要考察,要寻求智慧和万事的理由,又要知道邪恶为愚昧,愚昧为狂妄。 26 我得知有等妇人比死还苦,她的心是网罗,手是锁链,凡蒙神喜悦的人必能躲避她,有罪的人却被她缠住了。 27 传道者说:看哪,一千男子中,我找到一个正直人,但众女子中没有找到一个。我将这事一一比较,要寻求其理,我心仍要寻找,却未曾找到。 29 我所找到的只有一件,就是神造人原是正直,但他们寻出许多巧计。

Wisdom

A good name is better than fine perfume,(A)
    and the day of death better than the day of birth.(B)
It is better to go to a house of mourning
    than to go to a house of feasting,
for death(C) is the destiny(D) of everyone;
    the living should take this to heart.
Frustration is better than laughter,(E)
    because a sad face is good for the heart.
The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning,
    but the heart of fools is in the house of pleasure.(F)
It is better to heed the rebuke(G) of a wise person
    than to listen to the song of fools.
Like the crackling of thorns(H) under the pot,
    so is the laughter(I) of fools.
    This too is meaningless.

Extortion turns a wise person into a fool,
    and a bribe(J) corrupts the heart.

The end of a matter is better than its beginning,
    and patience(K) is better than pride.
Do not be quickly provoked(L) in your spirit,
    for anger resides in the lap of fools.(M)

10 Do not say, “Why were the old days(N) better than these?”
    For it is not wise to ask such questions.

11 Wisdom, like an inheritance, is a good thing(O)
    and benefits those who see the sun.(P)
12 Wisdom is a shelter
    as money is a shelter,
but the advantage of knowledge is this:
    Wisdom preserves those who have it.

13 Consider what God has done:(Q)

Who can straighten
    what he has made crooked?(R)
14 When times are good, be happy;
    but when times are bad, consider this:
God has made the one
    as well as the other.(S)
Therefore, no one can discover
    anything about their future.

15 In this meaningless life(T) of mine I have seen both of these:

the righteous perishing in their righteousness,
    and the wicked living long in their wickedness.(U)
16 Do not be overrighteous,
    neither be overwise—
    why destroy yourself?
17 Do not be overwicked,
    and do not be a fool—
    why die before your time?(V)
18 It is good to grasp the one
    and not let go of the other.
    Whoever fears God(W) will avoid all extremes.[a]

19 Wisdom(X) makes one wise person more powerful(Y)
    than ten rulers in a city.

20 Indeed, there is no one on earth who is righteous,(Z)
    no one who does what is right and never sins.(AA)

21 Do not pay attention to every word people say,
    or you(AB) may hear your servant cursing you—
22 for you know in your heart
    that many times you yourself have cursed others.

23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said,

“I am determined to be wise”(AC)
    but this was beyond me.
24 Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
    who can discover it?(AD)
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
    to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things(AE)
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
    and the madness of folly.(AF)

26 I find more bitter than death
    the woman who is a snare,(AG)
whose heart is a trap
    and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
    but the sinner she will ensnare.(AH)

27 “Look,” says the Teacher,[b](AI) “this is what I have discovered:

“Adding one thing to another to discover the scheme of things—
28     while I was still searching
    but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
    but not one upright woman(AJ) among them all.
29 This only have I found:
    God created mankind upright,
    but they have gone in search of many schemes.”

Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 7:18 Or will follow them both
  2. Ecclesiastes 7:27 Or the leader of the assembly