전도서 2장 Good News Translation (1992)

Good News Translation (1992) · 영어 · 전도서 (Ecclesiastes) · 26절 · 대역: King James Version

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절	Good News Translation (1992)	King James Version
1	I decided to enjoy myself and find out what happiness is. But I found that this is useless, too.	I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also is vanity.
2	I discovered that laughter is foolish, that pleasure does you no good.	I said of laughter, It is mad: and of mirth, What doeth it?
3	Driven on by my desire for wisdom, I decided to cheer myself up with wine and have a good time. I thought that this might be the best way people can spend their short lives on earth.	I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.
4	I accomplished great things. I built myself houses and planted vineyards.	I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:
5	I planted gardens and orchards, with all kinds of fruit trees in them;	I made me gardens and orchards, and I planted trees in them of all kind of fruits:
6	I dug ponds to irrigate them.	I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees:
7	I bought many slaves, and there were slaves born in my household. I owned more livestock than anyone else who had ever lived in Jerusalem.	I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:
8	I also piled up silver and gold from the royal treasuries of the lands I ruled. Men and women sang to entertain me, and I had all the women a man could want.	I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
9	Yes, I was great, greater than anyone else who had ever lived in Jerusalem, and my wisdom never failed me.	So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.
10	Anything I wanted, I got. I did not deny myself any pleasure. I was proud of everything I had worked for, and all this was my reward.	And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.
11	Then I thought about all that I had done and how hard I had worked doing it, and I realized that it didn't mean a thing. It was like chasing the wind—of no use at all.	Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
12	After all, a king can only do what previous kings have done. So I started thinking about what it meant to be wise or reckless or foolish.	And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.
13	Oh, I know, “Wisdom is better than foolishness, just as light is better than darkness.	Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light excelleth darkness.
14	The wise can see where they are going, and fools cannot.” But I also know that the same fate is waiting for us all.	The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.
15	I thought to myself, “What happens to fools is going to happen to me, too. So what have I gained from being so wise?” “Nothing,” I answered, “not a thing.”	Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
16	No one remembers the wise, and no one remembers fools. In days to come, we will all be forgotten. We must all die—wise and foolish alike.	For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
17	So life came to mean nothing to me, because everything in it had brought me nothing but trouble. It had all been useless; I had been chasing the wind.	Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
18	Nothing that I had worked for and earned meant a thing to me, because I knew that I would have to leave it to my successor,	Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
19	and he might be wise, or he might be foolish—who knows? Yet he will own everything I have worked for, everything my wisdom has earned for me in this world. It is all useless.	And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
20	So I came to regret that I had worked so hard.	Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.
21	You work for something with all your wisdom, knowledge, and skill, and then you have to leave it all to someone who hasn't had to work for it. It is useless, and it isn't right!	For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
22	You work and worry your way through life, and what do you have to show for it?	For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
23	As long as you live, everything you do brings nothing but worry and heartache. Even at night your mind can't rest. It is all useless.	For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
24	The best thing we can do is eat and drink and enjoy what we have earned. And yet, I realized that even this comes from God.	There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
25	How else could you have anything to eat or enjoy yourself at all?	For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
26	God gives wisdom, knowledge, and happiness to those who please him, but he makes sinners work, earning and saving, so that what they get can be given to those who please him. It is all useless. It is like chasing the wind.	For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.