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| 1. | Who is like the wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. | Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. |
מי כהחכם ומי יודע פשר דבר חכמת אדם תאיר פניו ועז פניו ישנא׃ |
MY KHChKM VMY YVD'y PhShUr DBUr ChKMTh 'aDM Th'aYUr PhNYV V'yZ PhNYV YShN'a. | Who is as the wise? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? The wisdom of man causeth his face to shine, and the hardness of his face is changed. | sapientia hominis lucet in vultu eius et potentissimus faciem illius commutavit | |||||
| 2. | I say, "Keep the king's command!" because of the oath to God. | I counsel thee to keep the king's commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. |
אני פי־מלך שמור ועל דברת שבועת אלהים׃ |
'aNY PhY-MLK ShMVUr V'yL DBUrTh ShBV'yTh 'aLHYM. | I pray thee, the commandment of a king keep, even for the sake of the oath of God. | ego os regis observo et praecepta iuramenti Dei | |||||
| 3. | Don't be hasty to go out of his presence. Don't persist in an evil thing, for he does whatever pleases him, | Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. |
אל־תבהל מפניו תלך אל־תעמד בדבר רע כי כל־אשר יחפץ יעשה׃ |
'aL-ThBHL MPhNYV ThLK 'aL-Th'yMD BDBUr Ur'y KY KL-'aShUr YChPhTSh Y'yShH. | Be not troubled at his presence, thou mayest go, stand not in an evil thing, for all that he pleaseth he doth. | ne festines recedere a facie eius neque permaneas in opere malo quia omne quod voluerit faciet | |||||
| 4. | for the king's word is supreme. Who can say to him, "What are you doing?" | Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? |
באשר דבר־מלך שלטון ומי יאמר־לו מה־תעשה׃ |
B'aShUr DBUr-MLK ShLTVN VMY Y'aMUr-LV MH-Th'yShH. | Where the word of a king is power is, and who saith to him, `What dost thou?` | et sermo illius potestate plenus est nec dicere ei quisquam potest quare ita facis | |||||
| 5. | Whoever keeps the commandment shall not come to harm, and his wise heart will know the time and procedure. | Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man's heart discerneth both time and judgment. |
שומר מצוה לא ידע דבר רע ועת ומשפט ידע לב חכם׃ |
ShVMUr MTShVH L'a YD'y DBUr Ur'y V'yTh VMShPhT YD'y LB ChKM. | Whoso is keeping a command knoweth no evil thing, and time and judgment the heart of the wise knoweth. | qui custodit praeceptum non experietur quicquam mali tempus et responsionem cor sapientis intellegit | |||||
| 6. | For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him. | Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. |
כי לכל־חפץ יש עת ומשפט כי־רעת האדם רבה עליו׃ |
KY LKL-ChPhTSh YSh 'yTh VMShPhT KY-Ur'yTh H'aDM UrBH 'yLYV. | For to every delight there is a time and a judgment, for the misfortune of man is great upon him. | omni negotio tempus est et oportunitas et multa hominis adflictio | |||||
| 7. | For he doesn't know that which will be; for who can tell him how it will be? | For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? |
כי־איננו ידע מה־שיהיה כי כאשר יהיה מי יגיד לו׃ |
KY-'aYNNV YD'y MH-ShYHYH KY K'aShUr YHYH MY YGYD LV. | For he knoweth not that which shall be, for when it shall be who declareth to him? | quia ignorat praeterita et ventura nullo scire potest nuntio | |||||
| 8. | There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it. | There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. |
אין אדם שליט ברוח לכלוא את־הרוח ואין שלטון ביום המות ואין משלחת במלחמה ולא־ימלט רשע את־בעליו׃ |
'aYN 'aDM ShLYT BUrVCh LKLV'a 'aTh-HUrVCh V'aYN ShLTVN BYVM HMVTh V'aYN MShLChTh BMLChMH VL'a-YMLT UrSh'y 'aTh-B'yLYV. | There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors. | non est in hominis dicione prohibere spiritum nec habet potestatem in die mortis nec sinitur quiescere ingruente bello neque salvabit impietas impium | |||||
| 9. | All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt. | All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. |
את־כל־זה ראיתי ונתון את־לבי לכל־מעשה אשר נעשה תחת השמש עת אשר שלט האדם באדם לרע לו׃ |
'aTh-KL-ZH Ur'aYThY VNThVN 'aTh-LBY LKL-M'yShH 'aShUr N'yShH ThChTh HShMSh 'yTh 'aShUr ShLT H'aDM B'aDM LUr'y LV. | All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil. | omnia haec consideravi et dedi cor meum in cunctis operibus quae fiunt sub sole interdum dominatur homo homini in malum suum | |||||
| 10. | So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity. | And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. |
ובכן ראיתי רשעים קברים ובאו וממקום קדוש יהלכו וישתכחו בעיר אשר כן־עשו גם־זה הבל׃ |
VBKN Ur'aYThY UrSh'yYM QBUrYM VB'aV VMMQVM QDVSh YHLKV VYShThKChV B'yYUr 'aShUr KN-'yShV GM-ZH HBL. | And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also is vanity. | vidi impios sepultos qui etiam cum adviverent in loco sancto erant et laudabantur in civitate quasi iustorum operum sed et hoc vanitas est | |||||
| 11. | Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. | Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. |
אשר אין־נעשה פתגם מעשה הרעה מהרה על־כן מלא לב בני־האדם בהם לעשות רע׃ |
'aShUr 'aYN-N'yShH PhThGM M'yShH HUr'yH MHUrH 'yL-KN ML'a LB BNY-H'aDM BHM L'yShVTh Ur'y. | Because sentence hath not been done on an evil work speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of man is full within them to do evil. | etenim quia non profertur cito contra malos sententia absque ullo timore filii hominum perpetrant mala | |||||
| 12. | Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him. | Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: |
אשר חטא עשה רע מאת ומאריך לו כי גם־יודע אני אשר יהיה־טוב ליראי האלהים אשר ייראו מלפניו׃ |
'aShUr ChT'a 'yShH Ur'y M'aTh VM'aUrYK LV KY GM-YVD'y 'aNY 'aShUr YHYH-TVB LYUr'aY H'aLHYM 'aShUr YYUr'aV MLPhNYV. | Though a sinner is doing evil a hundred times, and prolonging himself for it, surely also I know that there is good to those fearing God, who fear before Him. | attamen ex eo quod peccator centies facit malum et per patientiam sustentatur ego cognovi quod erit bonum timentibus Deum qui verentur faciem eius | |||||
| 13. | But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow; because he doesn't fear God. | But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. |
וטוב לא־יהיה לרשע ולא־יאריך ימים כצל אשר איננו ירא מלפני אלהים׃ |
VTVB L'a-YHYH LUrSh'y VL'a-Y'aUrYK YMYM KTShL 'aShUr 'aYNNV YUr'a MLPhNY 'aLHYM. | And good is not to the wicked, and he doth not prolong days as a shadow, because he is not fearing before God. | non sit bonum impio nec prolongentur dies eius sed quasi umbra transeant qui non timent faciem Dei | |||||
| 14. | There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. | There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. |
יש־הבל אשר נעשה על־הארץ אשר יש צדיקים אשר מגיע אלהם כמעשה הרשעים ויש רשעים שמגיע אלהם כמעשה הצדיקים אמרתי שגם־זה הבל׃ |
YSh-HBL 'aShUr N'yShH 'yL-H'aUrTSh 'aShUr YSh TShDYQYM 'aShUr MGY'y 'aLHM KM'yShH HUrSh'yYM VYSh UrSh'yYM ShMGY'y 'aLHM KM'yShH HTShDYQYM 'aMUrThY ShGM-ZH HBL. | There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also is vanity. | est et alia vanitas quae fit super terram sunt iusti quibus multa proveniunt quasi opera egerint impiorum et sunt impii qui ita securi sunt quasi iustorum facta habeant sed et hoc vanissimum iudico | |||||
| 15. | Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun. | Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. |
ושבחתי אני את־השמחה אשר אין־טוב לאדם תחת השמש כי אם־לאכול ולשתות ולשמוח והוא ילונו בעמלו ימי חייו אשר־נתן־לו האלהים תחת השמש׃ |
VShBChThY 'aNY 'aTh-HShMChH 'aShUr 'aYN-TVB L'aDM ThChTh HShMSh KY 'aM-L'aKVL VLShThVTh VLShMVCh VHV'a YLVNV B'yMLV YMY ChYYV 'aShUr-NThN-LV H'aLHYM ThChTh HShMSh. | And I have praised mirth because there is no good to man under the sun except to eat and to drink, and to rejoice, and it remaineth with him of his labour the days of his life that God hath given to him under the sun. | laudavi igitur laetitiam quod non esset homini bonum sub sole nisi quod comederet et biberet atque gauderet et hoc solum secum auferret de labore suo in diebus vitae quos dedit ei Deus sub sole | |||||
| 16. | When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes), | When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) |
כאשר נתתי את־לבי לדעת חכמה ולראות את־הענין אשר נעשה על־הארץ כי גם ביום ובלילה שנה בעיניו איננו ראה׃ |
K'aShUr NThThY 'aTh-LBY LD'yTh ChKMH VLUr'aVTh 'aTh-H'yNYN 'aShUr N'yShH 'yL-H'aUrTSh KY GM BYVM VBLYLH ShNH B'yYNYV 'aYNNV Ur'aH. | When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night), | et adposui cor meum ut scirem sapientiam et intellegerem distentionem quae versatur in terra est homo qui diebus ac noctibus somnum oculis non capit | |||||
| 17. | then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it. | Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea farther; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. |
וראיתי את־כל־מעשה האלהים כי לא יוכל האדם למצוא את־המעשה אשר נעשה תחת־השמש בשל אשר יעמל האדם לבקש ולא ימצא וגם אם־יאמר החכם לדעת לא יוכל למצא׃ |
VUr'aYThY 'aTh-KL-M'yShH H'aLHYM KY L'a YVKL H'aDM LMTShV'a 'aTh-HM'yShH 'aShUr N'yShH ThChTh-HShMSh BShL 'aShUr Y'yML H'aDM LBQSh VL'a YMTSh'a VGM 'aM-Y'aMUr HChKM LD'yTh L'a YVKL LMTSh'a. | then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find. | et intellexi quod omnium operum Dei nullam possit homo invenire rationem eorum quae fiunt sub sole et quanto plus laboraverit ad quaerendum tanto minus inveniat etiam si dixerit sapiens se nosse non poterit repperire | |||||