传道书 1现代标点和合本 1919 | Ecclesiastes 1King James Version 1769 |
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传道者言万事尽属虚空 | The preacher says that everything is in vain |
1在耶路撒冷做王，大卫的儿子传道者的言语。 | 1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. |
2传道者说：虚空的虚空，虚空的虚空，凡事都是虚空。 | 2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. |
3人一切的劳碌，就是他在日光之下的劳碌，有什么益处呢？ | 3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? |
4一代过去，一代又来，地却永远长存。 | 4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. |
5日头出来，日头落下，急归所出之地。 | 5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. |
6风往南刮，又向北转，不住地旋转，而且返回转行原道。 | 6The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. |
7江河都往海里流，海却不满；江河从何处流，仍归还何处。 | 7All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. |
8万事令人厌烦，人不能说尽。眼看，看不饱；耳听，听不足。 | 8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. |
9已有的事后必再有，已行的事后必再行，日光之下并无新事。 | 9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. |
10岂有一件事人能指着说 “这是新的”？哪知，在我们以前的世代早已有了。 | 10Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us. |
11已过的世代无人记念，将来的世代后来的人也不记念。 | 11There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. |
12我传道者，在耶路撒冷做过以色列的王。 | 12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem. |
13我专心用智慧寻求查究天下所做的一切事，乃知神叫世人所经练的，是极重的劳苦。 | 13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. |
14我见日光之下所做的一切事都是虚空，都是捕风。 | 14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit. |
15弯曲的不能变直，缺少的不能足数。 | 15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. |
16我心里议论说：“我得了大智慧，胜过我以前在耶路撒冷的众人，而且我心中多经历智慧和知识的事。” | 16I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge. |
17我又专心察明智慧、狂妄和愚昧，乃知这也是捕风。 | 17And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. |
18因为多有智慧就多有愁烦，加增知识的就加增忧伤。 | 18For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. |