传道书 8
Revised Chinese Union Version (Simplified Script) Shen Edition
服从君王
2 我劝你[c]因 神誓言的缘故，当遵守王的命令。 3 不要急躁离开王的面前，不要固执行恶，因为他凡事都随自己心意而行。 4 王的话本有权力，谁能对他说：“你在做什么？” 5 凡遵守命令的，必不经历祸患；智慧人的心知道适当的时机和必经的过程。 6 各样事务都有时机和过程，但人有苦难重压在身。 7 他不知道将来的事，其实将来如何，谁能告诉他呢？ 8 没有人能掌握生命，将生命留住；也没有人有权力掌管死期。这场争战无人能免；邪恶也不能救那行邪恶的人。 9 这一切我都见过，我专心考察日光之下所发生的一切事，有时这人管辖那人，令他受害。
恶人和义人
10 我见恶人被埋葬；从前他们进出圣地，他们在城中的作为被人忘记。这也是虚空。 11 判罪之后不立刻执行，所以世人满怀作恶的心思。 12 罪人虽然作恶百次，倒享长寿；然而我也知道，福乐必临到敬畏 神的人，就是在他面前心存敬畏的人。 13 恶人却不得福乐，他的日子好像影儿不得长久，因为他不敬畏 神。
14 世上有一件虚空的事，就是义人所遭遇的，反而照恶人所做的；恶人所遭遇的，反而照义人所做的。我说，这也是虚空。 15 我就称赞快乐，原来人在日光之下，最大的福气莫过于吃喝快乐；他在日光之下， 神赐他一生的日子，要从劳碌中享受所得。
16 我专心想要明白智慧，要观看世上所发生的事。有人昼夜不得阖眼睡觉。 17 我观看 神一切的作为，知道人不能探求日光之下所发生的事；任凭他费多少力探索，都找不出来，智慧人虽说他明白，仍不能找出来。
传道书 8
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Simplified)
8 谁像有智慧的人呢？
谁知道事情的原委呢？
智慧能使人容光焕发，
使冷酷的面孔柔和。
2 我劝你遵守王的命令，因为你曾在上帝面前这样发誓。 3 不要在王面前鲁莽行事，也不要参与恶行，因为王可以随意行事。 4 况且，王的命令至高无上，谁敢质问他呢？ 5 遵从王命的必免遭祸患，因为智者心里懂得做事的时机和方法。 6 尽管人面临重重困难，但做任何事都有时机和方法。 7 无人知道未来的事，谁能告诉人将来的事呢？ 8 无人能掌管生命[a]，留住生命，也无人能掌管死期。无人能免于这场争战，邪恶也救不了作恶者。 9 这一切我都见过了，我用心思考日光之下的一切事。有时人欺压人、伤害人。 10 我看见恶人生前出入圣所，死后安葬，还在他们作恶的城中受到称赞，这也是虚空。 11 对犯罪者的刑罚不迅速执行，世人便尽情作恶。 12 虽然罪人作恶多端仍得长寿，我却认为敬畏上帝的人必亨通。 13 然而，恶人得不到祝福，他们必像幻影一样不能长久，因为他们不敬畏上帝。 14 世上有一件虚空的事，就是义人遭受了恶人当受的报应，恶人却享受了义人该享的福乐。我认为这也是虚空。 15 因此，我便赞赏享乐，因为在日光之下没有什么比吃喝快乐更好。这是人在上帝所赐的年日里，从劳碌中当得的享受。 16 我全心去寻求智慧，观察世上所发生的事，甚至昼夜不眠， 17 思想上帝所做的一切，便知道人无法理解日光之下所发生的事。尽管人努力不懈地去寻找，也不能明白；即使智者自以为明白，他其实仍不能参透。
Footnotes
- 8:8 “生命”也可译作“风”或“气息”。
Ecclesiastes 8
Good News Translation
8 Only the wise know what things really mean. Wisdom makes them smile and makes their frowns disappear.
Obey the King
2 Do what the king says,[a] and don't make any rash promises to God. 3 The king can do anything he likes, so depart from his presence; don't stay in such a dangerous place. 4 The king acts with authority, and no one can challenge what he does. 5 As long as you obey his commands, you are safe, and a wise person knows how and when to do it. 6 There is a right time and a right way to do everything, but we know so little! 7 None of us knows what is going to happen, and there is no one to tell us. 8 No one can keep from dying or put off the day of death. That is a battle we cannot escape; we cannot cheat our way out.
The Wicked and the Righteous
9 I saw all this when I thought about the things that are done in this world, a world where some people have power and others have to suffer under them. 10 Yes, I have seen the wicked buried and in their graves, but on the way back from the cemetery people praise them in the very city where they did their evil.[b] It is useless.
11 Why do people commit crimes so readily? Because crime is not punished quickly enough. 12 A sinner may commit a hundred crimes and still live. Oh yes, I know what they say: “If you obey God, everything will be all right, 13 but it will not go well for the wicked. Their life is like a shadow and they will die young, because they do not obey God.” 14 But this is nonsense. Look at what happens in the world: sometimes the righteous get the punishment of the wicked, and the wicked get the reward of the righteous. I say it is useless.
15 So I am convinced that we should enjoy ourselves, because the only pleasure we have in this life is eating and drinking and enjoying ourselves. We can at least do this as we labor during the life that God has given us in this world.
16 Whenever I tried to become wise and learn what goes on in the world, I realized that you could stay awake night and day 17 and never be able to understand what God is doing. However hard you try, you will never find out. The wise may claim to know, but they don't.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 8:2 Some ancient translations Do what the king says; Hebrew unclear.
- Ecclesiastes 8:10 Verse 10 in Hebrew is unclear.
Ecclesiastes 8
King James Version
8 Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed.
2 I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God.
3 Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him.
4 Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou?
5 Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment.
6 Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.
7 For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?
8 There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.
11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
12 Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him:
13 But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God.
14 There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity.
15 Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun.
16 When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:)
17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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