전도서 4장 Good News Translation (1992)

Good News Translation (1992) · 영어 · 전도서 (Ecclesiastes) · 15절 · 대역: King James Version

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절	Good News Translation (1992)	King James Version
1	Then I looked again at all the injustice that goes on in this world. The oppressed were crying, and no one would help them. No one would help them, because their oppressors had power on their side.	So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2	I envy those who are dead and gone; they are better off than those who are still alive.	Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3	But better off than either are those who have never been born, who have never seen the injustice that goes on in this world.	Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4	I have also learned why people work so hard to succeed: it is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is useless. It is like chasing the wind.	Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
5	They say that we would be fools to fold our hands and let ourselves starve to death.	The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
6	Maybe so, but it is better to have only a little, with peace of mind, than be busy all the time with both hands, trying to catch the wind.	Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
7	I have noticed something else in life that is useless.	Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
8	Here is someone who lives alone. He has no son, no brother, yet he is always working, never satisfied with the wealth he has. For whom is he working so hard and denying himself any pleasure? This is useless, too—and a miserable way to live.	There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
9	Two are better off than one, because together they can work more effectively.	Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.
10	If one of them falls down, the other can help him up. But if someone is alone and falls, it's just too bad, because there is no one to help him.	For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.
11	If it is cold, two can sleep together and stay warm, but how can you keep warm by yourself?	Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?
12	Two people can resist an attack that would defeat one person alone. A rope made of three cords is hard to break.	And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken.
13	—	Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
14	Someone may rise from poverty to become king of his country, or go from prison to the throne, but if in his old age he is too foolish to take advice, he is not as well off as a young man who is poor but intelligent.	For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.
15	I thought about all the people who live in this world, and I realized that somewhere among them there is a young man who will take the king's place.	I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.
16	There may be no limit to the number of people a king rules; when he is gone, no one will be grateful for what he has done. It is useless. It is like chasing the wind.	There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.