전도서 6장 Contemporary English Version (2006)

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절	Contemporary English Version (2006)	King James Version
1	Don't Depend on Wealth There is something else terribly unfair, and it troubles everyone on earth.	There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
2	God may give you everything you want—money, property, and wealth. Then God doesn't let you enjoy it, and someone you don't even know gets it all. That's senseless and terribly unfair!	A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3	You may live a long time and have a hundred children. But a child born dead is better off than you, unless you enjoy life and have a decent burial.	If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
4	—	For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5	That child will never live to see the sun or to have a name, and it will go straight to the world of darkness. But it will still find more rest than you,	Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
6	even if you live two thousand years and don't enjoy life. As you know, we all end up in the same place.	Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7	We struggle just to have enough to eat, but we are never satisfied.	All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8	We may be sensible, yet we are no better off than a fool. And if we are poor, it still doesn't do us any good to try to live right.	For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9	It's better to enjoy what we have than to always want something else, because that makes no more sense than chasing the wind.	Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
10	Everything that happens was decided long ago. We humans know what we are like, and we can't argue with God, because he is too strong for us.	That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
11	The more we talk, the less sense we make, so what good does it do to talk?	Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
12	Life is short and meaningless, and it fades away like a shadow. Who knows what is best for us? Who knows what will happen after we are gone?	For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?