傳道書 Ecclesiastes

5:1	[hb5]	你到　神的殿、要謹慎腳步．因為近前聽、勝過愚昧人獻祭、〔或作勝過獻愚昧人的祭〕、他們本不知道所作的是惡。
	[kjv]	Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.
	[bbe]	Put your feet down with care when you go to the house of God, for it is better to give ear than to make the burned offerings of the foolish, whose knowledge is only of doing evil.
5:2	[hb5]	你在　神面前不可冒失開口、也不可心急發言．因為　神在天上、你在地下、所以你的言語要寡少。
	[kjv]	Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God: for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
	[bbe]	Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.
5:3	[hb5]	事務多、就令人作夢、言語多、就顯出愚昧。
	[kjv]	For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
	[bbe]	As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.
5:4	[hb5]	你向　神許願、償還不可遲延．因他不喜悅愚昧人．所以你許的願應當償還。
	[kjv]	When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.
	[bbe]	When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.
5:5	[hb5]	你許願不還、不如不許。
	[kjv]	Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.
	[bbe]	It is better not to take an oath than to take an oath and not keep it.
5:6	[hb5]	不可任你的口使肉體犯罪．也不可在祭司〔原文作使者〕面前說是錯許了．為何使　神因你的聲音發怒、敗壞你手所作的呢。
	[kjv]	Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thine hands?
	[bbe]	Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.
5:7	[hb5]	多夢和多言、其中多有虛幻．你只要敬畏　神。
	[kjv]	For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
	[bbe]	Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.
5:8	[hb5]	你若在一省之中見窮人受欺壓、並奪去公義公平的事、不要因此詫異．因有一位高過居高位的鑒察．在他們以上還有更高的。
	[kjv]	If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
	[bbe]	If you see the poor under a cruel yoke, and law and right being violently overturned in a country, be not surprised, because one authority is keeping watch on another and there are higher than they.
5:9	[hb5]	況且地的益處歸眾人．就是君王也受田地的供應。
	[kjv]	Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
	[bbe]	It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king.
5:10	[hb5]	貪愛銀子的、不因得銀子知足．貪愛豐富的、也不因得利益知足．這也是虛空。
	[kjv]	He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
	[bbe]	He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
5:11	[hb5]	貨物增添、喫的人也增添．物主得甚麼益處呢、不過眼看而已。
	[kjv]	When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
	[bbe]	When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
5:12	[hb5]	勞碌的人、不拘喫多喫少、睡得香甜．富足人的豐滿、卻不容他睡覺。
	[kjv]	The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
	[bbe]	The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
5:13	[hb5]	我見日光之下、有一宗大禍患、就是財主積存資財、反害自己．
	[kjv]	There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
	[bbe]	There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
5:14	[hb5]	因遭遇禍患、這些資財就消滅．那人若生了兒子、手裡也一無所有。
	[kjv]	But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
	[bbe]	And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.
5:15	[hb5]	他怎樣從母胎赤身而來、也必照樣赤身而去．他所勞碌得來的、手中分毫不能帶去。
	[kjv]	As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
	[bbe]	As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
5:16	[hb5]	他來的情形怎樣、他去的情形也怎樣．這也是一宗大禍患．他為風勞碌有甚麼益處呢。
	[kjv]	And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
	[bbe]	And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?
5:17	[hb5]	並且他終身在黑暗中喫喝、多有煩惱、又有病患嘔氣。
	[kjv]	All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
	[bbe]	All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.
5:18	[hb5]	我所見為善為美的、就是人在　神賜他一生的日子喫喝、享受日光之下勞碌得來的好處．因為這是他的分。
	[kjv]	Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion.
	[bbe]	This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.
5:19	[hb5]	神賜人資財豐富、使他能以喫用、能取自己的分、在他勞碌中喜樂．這乃是　神的恩賜。
	[kjv]	Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
	[bbe]	Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.
5:20	[hb5]	他不多思念自己一生的年日．因為　神應他的心使他喜樂。
	[kjv]	For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
	[bbe]	He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.