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| [1]I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it [is] vanity. |
[1]Dixi ego in corde meo: Vadam, et affluam deliciis, et fruar bonis; et vidi quod hoc quoque esset vanitas. |
| [2]Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What [is] this it is doing?' |
[2]Risum reputavi errorem, et gaudio dixi: Quid frustra deciperis? |
| [3]I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where [is] this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives. |
[3]Cogitavi in corde meo abstrahere a vino carnem meam, ut animam meam transferrem ad sapientiam, devitaremque stultitiam, donec viderem quid esset utile filiis hominum, quo facto opus est sub sole numero dierum vitæ suæ. |
| [4]I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards. |
[4]Magnificavi opera mea, ædificavi mihi domos, et plantavi vineas; |
| [5]I made for me gardens and paradises, and I planted in them trees of every fruit. |
[5]feci hortos et pomaria, et consevi ea cuncti generis arboribus; |
| [6]I made for me pools of water, to water from them a forest shooting forth trees. |
[6]et exstruxi mihi piscinas aquarum, ut irrigarem silvam lignorum germinantium. |
| [7]I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem. |
[7]Possedi servos et ancillas, multamque familiam habui: armenta quoque, et magnos ovium greges, ultra omnes qui fuerunt ante me in Jerusalem; |
| [8]I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man -- a wife and wives. |
[8]coacervavi mihi argentum et aurum, et substantias regum ac provinciarum; feci mihi cantores et cantatrices, et delicias filiorum hominum, scyphos, et urceos in ministerio ad vina fundenda; |
| [9]And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me. |
[9]et supergressus sum opibus omnes qui ante me fuerunt in Jerusalem: sapientia quoque perseveravit mecum. |
| [10]And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour, |
[10]Et omnia quæ desideraverunt oculi mei non negavi eis, nec prohibui cor meum quin omni voluptate frueretur, et oblectaret se in his quæ præparaveram; et hanc ratus sum partem meam si uterer labore meo. |
| [11]and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun! |
[11]Cumque me convertissem ad universa opera quæ fecerant manus meæ, et ad labores in quibus frustra sudaveram, vidi in omnibus vanitatem et afflictionem animi, et nihil permanere sub sole. |
| [12]And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what [is] the man who cometh after the king? that which [is] already -- they have done it! |
[12]Transivi ad contemplandam sapientiam, erroresque, et stultitiam. (Quid est, inquam, homo, ut sequi possit regem, factorem suum?) |
| [13]And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness. |
[13]Et vidi quod tantum præcederet sapientia stultitiam, quantum differt lux a tenebris. |
| [14]The wise! -- his eyes [are] in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all; |
[14]Sapientis oculi in capite ejus; stultus in tenebris ambulat: et didici quod unus utriusque esset interitus. |
| [15]and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this [is] vanity: |
[15]Et dixi in corde meo: Si unus et stulti et meus occasus erit, quid mihi prodest quod majorem sapientiæ dedi operam? Locutusque cum mente mea, animadverti quod hoc quoque esset vanitas. |
| [16]That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which [is] already, [in] the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool! |
[16]Non enim erit memoria sapientis similiter ut stulti in perpetuum, et futura tempora oblivione cuncta pariter operient: moritur doctus similiter ut indoctus. |
| [17]And I have hated life, for sad to me [is] the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. |
[17]Et idcirco tæduit me vitæ meæ, videntem mala universa esse sub sole, et cuncta vanitatem et afflictionem spiritus. |
| [18]And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me. |
[18]Rursus detestatus sum omnem industriam meam, qua sub sole studiosissime laboravi, habiturus hæredem post me, |
| [19]And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also [is] vanity. |
[19]quem ignoro utrum sapiens an stultus futurus sit, et dominabitur in laboribus meis, quibus desudavi et sollicitus fui: et est quidquam tam vanum? |
| [20]And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun. |
[20]Unde cessavi, renuntiavitque cor meum ultra laborare sub sole. |
| [21]For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this [is] vanity and a great evil. |
[21]Nam cum alius laboret in sapientia, et doctrina, et sollicitudine, homini otioso quæsita dimittit; et hoc ergo vanitas et magnum malum. |
| [22]For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun? |
[22]Quid enim proderit homini de universo labore suo, et afflictione spiritus, qua sub sole cruciatus est? |
| [23]For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also [is] vanity. |
[23]Cuncti dies ejus doloribus et ærumnis pleni sunt, nec per noctem mente requiescit. Et hoc nonne vanitas est? |
| [24]There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God. |
[24]Nonne melius est comedere et bibere, et ostendere animæ suæ bona de laboribus suis? et hoc de manu Dei est. |
| [25]For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I? |
[25]Quis ita devorabit et deliciis affluet ut ego? |
| [26]For to a man who [is] good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. |
[26]Homini bono in conspectu suo dedit Deus sapientiam, et scientiam, et lætitiam; peccatori autem dedit afflictionem et curam superfluam, ut addat, et congreget, et tradat ei qui placuit Deo; sed et hoc vanitas est, et cassa sollicitudo mentis. |