전도서 12장 Contemporary English Version (2006)

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절	Contemporary English Version (2006)	King James Version
1	Keep your Creator in mind while you are young! In years to come, you will be burdened down with troubles and say, “I don't enjoy life anymore.”	Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
2	Someday the light of the sun and the moon and the stars will all seem dim to you. Rain clouds will remain over your head.	While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:
3	Your body will grow feeble, your teeth will decay, and your eyesight fail.	In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened,
4	The noisy grinding of grain and the voices of singers will be shut out by your deaf ears, but even the song of a bird will keep you awake.	And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low;
5	You will be afraid to climb up a hill or walk down a road. Your hair will turn as white as almond blossoms. You will feel lifeless and drag along like an old grasshopper. We each go to our eternal home, and the streets here are filled with those who mourn.	Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
6	The silver cord snaps, the golden bowl breaks; the water pitcher is smashed, and the pulley at the well is shattered.	Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
7	So our bodies return to the earth, and the life-giving breath returns to God.	Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
8	Nothing makes sense. I have seen it all— nothing makes sense.	Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
9	Respect and Obey God I was a wise teacher with much understanding, and I collected a number of proverbs that I had carefully studied.	And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
10	Then I tried to explain these things in the best and most accurate way.	The preacher sought to find out acceptable words: and that which was written was upright, even words of truth.
11	Words of wisdom are like the stick a farmer uses to make animals move. These sayings come from a shepherd, and they are like nails that fasten things together.	The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.
12	My child, I warn you to stay away from any teachings except these. There is no end to books, and too much study will wear you out.	And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
13	Everything you were taught can be put into a few words: Respect and obey God! This is what life is all about.	Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14	God will judge everything we do, even what is done in secret, whether good or bad.	For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.