| 1 قلت انا في قلبي هلم امتحنك بالفرح فترى خيرا. واذا هذا ايضا باطل. | 1 I said to myself, "Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity. |
| 2 للضحك قلت مجنون وللفرح ماذا يفعل. | 2 I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?" |
| 3 افتكرت في قلبي ان اعلل جسدي بالخمر وقلبي يلهج بالحكمة وان آخذ بالحماقة حتى ارى ما هو الخير لبني البشر حتى يفعلوه تحت السموات مدة ايام حياتهم. | 3 I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine--my mind still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life. |
| 4 فعظمت عملي. بنيت لنفسي بيوتا غرست لنفسي كروما. | 4 I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself; |
| 5 عملت لنفسي جنات وفراديس وغرست فيها اشجارا من كل نوع ثمر. | 5 I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. |
| 6 عملت لنفسي برك مياه لتسقى بها المغارس المنبتة الشجر. | 6 I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. |
| 7 قنيت عبيدا وجواري وكان لي ولدان البيت. وكانت لي ايضا قنية بقر وغنم اكثر من جميع الذين كانوا في اورشليم قبلي. | 7 I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem. |
| 8 جمعت لنفسي ايضا فضة وذهبا وخصوصيات الملوك والبلدان. اتخذت لنفسي مغنين ومغنيات وتنعمات بني البشر سيدة وسيدات. | 8 I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight. |
| 9 فعظمت وازددت اكثر من جميع الذين كانوا قبلي في اورشليم وبقيت ايضا حكمتي معي. | 9 So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. |
| 10 ومهما اشتهته عيناي لم امسكه عنهما. لم امنع قلبي من كل فرح. لان قلبي فرح بكل تعبي وهذا كان نصيبي من كل تعبي. | 10 And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil. |
| 11 ثم التفت انا الى كل اعمالي التي عملتها يداي والى التعب الذي تعبته في عمله فاذا الكل باطل وقبض الريح ولا منفعة تحت الشمس | 11 Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun. |
| 12 ثم التفت لانظر الحكمة والحماقة والجهل. فما الانسان الذي يأتي وراء الملك الذي نصبوه منذ زمان. | 12 So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done. |
| 13 فرأيت ان للحكمة منفعة اكثر من الجهل كما ان للنور منفعة اكثر من الظلمة. | 13 Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. |
| 14 الحكيم عيناه في راسه. اما الجاهل فيسلك في الظلام. وعرفت انا ايضا ان حادثة واحدة تحدث لكليهما. | 14 The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them. |
| 15 فقلت في قلبي كما يحدث للجاهل كذلك يحدث ايضا لي انا. واذ ذاك فلماذا انا اوفر حكمة. فقلت في قلبي هذا ايضا باطل. | 15 Then I said to myself, "What befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?" And I said to myself that this also is vanity. |
| 16 لانه ليس ذكر للحكيم ولا للجاهل الى الابد. كما منذ زمان كذا الايام الآتية الكل ينسى. وكيف يموت الحكيم. كالجاهل. | 16 For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool! |
| 17 فكرهت الحياة. لانه رديء عندي العمل الذي عمل تحت الشمس لان الكل باطل وقبض الريح. | 17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind. |
| 18 فكرهت كل تعبي الذي تعبت فيه تحت الشمس حيث اتركه للانسان الذي يكون بعدي. | 18 I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me; |
| 19 ومن يعلم هل يكون حكيما او جاهلا. ويستولي على كل تعبي الذي تعبت فيه واظهرت فيه حكمتي تحت الشمس. هذا ايضا باطل | 19 and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. |
| 20 فتحولت لكي اجعل قلبي ييئس من كل التعب الذي تعبت فيه تحت الشمس. | 20 So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun, |
| 21 لانه قد يكون انسان تعبه بالحكمة والمعرفة وبالفلاح فيتركه نصيبا لانسان لم يتعب فيه. هذا ايضا باطل وشر عظيم. | 21 because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. |
| 22 لانه ماذا للانسان من كل تعبه ومن اجتهاد قلبه الذي تعب فيه تحت الشمس. | 22 What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun? |
| 23 لان كل ايامه احزان وعمله غم. ايضا بالليل لا يستريح قلبه. هذا ايضا باطل هو | 23 For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity. |
| 24 ليس للانسان خير من ان يأكل ويشرب ويري نفسه خيرا في تعبه. رأيت هذا ايضا انه من يد الله. | 24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; |
| 25 لانه من يأكل ومن يلتذ غيري. | 25 for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment? |
| 26 لانه يؤتي الانسان الصالح قدامه حكمة ومعرفة وفرحا. اما الخاطئ فيعطيه شغل الجمع والتكويم ليعطي للصالح قدام الله. هذا ايضا باطل وقبض الريح | 26 For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind. |
