Ecclesiastes
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新美国标准圣经
Wisdom and Foolishness Contrasted
1名誉强如美好的膏油；人死的日子胜过人生的日子。2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。3忧愁强如喜笑；因为面带愁容，终必使心喜乐。4智慧人的心在遭丧之家；愚昧人的心在快乐之家。5听智慧人的责备，强如听愚昧人的歌唱。6愚昧人的笑声，好像锅下烧荆棘的爆声；这也是虚空。7勒索使智慧人变为愚妄；贿赂能败坏人的慧心。8事情的终局强如事情的起头；存心忍耐的，胜过居心骄傲的。9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。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。惟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。
1A good name is better than good oil,
And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth. 2It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every person,
And the living takes it to heart. 3Sorrow is better than laughter,
For when a face is sad a heart may be happy. 4The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning,
While the mind of fools is in the house of pleasure. 5It is better to listen to the rebuke of a wise person
Than for one to listen to the song of fools. 6For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool;
And this too is futility. 7For oppression makes a wise person look foolish,
And a bribe corrupts the heart. 8The end of a matter is better than its beginning;
Patience of spirit is better than arrogance of spirit. 9Do not be eager in your spirit to be angry,
For anger resides in the heart of fools. 10Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this. 11Wisdom along with an inheritance is good,
And an advantage to those who see the sun. 12For wisdom is protection just as money is protection,
But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom keeps its possessors alive. 13Consider the work of God,
For who is able to straighten what He has bent? 14On the day of prosperity be happy,
But on the day of adversity consider:
God has made the one as well as the other
So that a person will not discover anything that will come after him.
And the day of one’s death is better than the day of one’s birth. 2It is better to go to a house of mourning
Than to go to a house of feasting,
Because that is the end of every person,
And the living takes it to heart. 3Sorrow is better than laughter,
For when a face is sad a heart may be happy. 4The mind of the wise is in the house of mourning,
While the mind of fools is in the house of pleasure. 5It is better to listen to the rebuke of a wise person
Than for one to listen to the song of fools. 6For as the crackling of thorn bushes under a pot,
So is the laughter of the fool;
And this too is futility. 7For oppression makes a wise person look foolish,
And a bribe corrupts the heart. 8The end of a matter is better than its beginning;
Patience of spirit is better than arrogance of spirit. 9Do not be eager in your spirit to be angry,
For anger resides in the heart of fools. 10Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?”
For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this. 11Wisdom along with an inheritance is good,
And an advantage to those who see the sun. 12For wisdom is protection just as money is protection,
But the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom keeps its possessors alive. 13Consider the work of God,
For who is able to straighten what He has bent? 14On the day of prosperity be happy,
But on the day of adversity consider:
God has made the one as well as the other
So that a person will not discover anything that will come after him.
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。
15I have seen everything during my lifetime of futility; there is a righteous person who perishes in his righteousness, and there is a wicked person who prolongs his life in his wickedness. 16Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself? 17Do not be excessively wicked, and do not be foolish. Why should you die before your time? 18It is good that you grasp one thing while not letting go of the other; for one who fears God comes out with both of them.
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。
19Wisdom strengthens a wise person more than ten rulers who are in a city. 20Indeed, there is not a righteous person on earth who always does good and does not ever sin. 21Also, do not take seriously all the words which are spoken, so that you do not hear your servant cursing you, 22for you know that even you have cursed others many times as well.
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。
23I tested all this with wisdom, and I said, “I will be wise,” but wisdom was far from me. 24What has been is remote and very mysterious. Who can discover it? 25I directed my mind to know and to investigate, and to seek wisdom and an explanation, and to know the evil of foolishness and the foolishness of insanity. 26And I discovered as more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, whose hands are chains. One who is pleasing to God will escape from her, but the sinner will be captured by her.
27–28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。
27“Behold, I have discovered this,” says the Preacher, “by adding one thing to another to find an explanation, 28which I am still seeking but have not found. I have found one man among a thousand, but I have not found a woman among all these. 29“Behold, I have found only this, that God made people upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
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