전도서 6장 Good News Translation (1992)

Good News Translation (1992) · 영어 · 전도서 (Ecclesiastes) · 12절 · 대역: King James Version

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절	Good News Translation (1992)	King James Version
1	I have noticed that in this world a serious injustice is done.	There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
2	God will give us wealth, honor, and property, yes, everything we want, but then will not let us enjoy it. Some stranger will enjoy it instead. It is useless, and it just isn't right.	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	We may have a hundred children and live a long time, but no matter how long we live, if we do not get our share of happiness and do not receive a decent burial, then I say that a baby born dead is better off.	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	It does that baby no good to be born; it disappears into darkness, where it is forgotten.	For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5	It never sees the light of day or knows what life is like, but at least it has found rest—	Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
6	more so than the man who never enjoys life, though he may live two thousand years. After all, both of them are going to 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 do all our work just to get something to eat, but we never have enough.	All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
8	How are the wise better off than fools? What good does it do the poor to know how to face life?	For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
9	It is useless; it is like chasing the wind. It is better to be satisfied with what you have than to be always wanting something else.	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 already determined long ago, and we all know that you cannot argue with someone who is stronger than you.	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 longer you argue, the more useless it is, and you are no better off.	Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
12	How can anyone know what is best for us in this short, useless life of ours—a life that passes like a shadow? How can we know what will happen in the world after we die?	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?