Qoelet (جامعة) 5

SMITH VAN DYKE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 احفظ قدمك حين تذهب الى بيت الله فالاستماع اقرب من تقديم ذبيحة الجهال لانهم لا يبالون بفعل الشر.	1 Speak not any thing rashly, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.
2 لا تستعجل فمك ولا يسرع قلبك الى نطق كلام قدام الله. لان الله في السموات وانت على الارض فلذلك لتكن كلماتك قليلة.	2 Dreams follow many cares: and in many words shall be found folly.
3 لان الحلم يأتي من كثرة الشغل وقول الجهل من كثرة الكلام.	3 If thou hast vowed any thing to God, defer not to pay it: for an unfaithful and foolish promise displeaseth him: but whatsoever thou hast vowed, pay it.
4 اذا نذرت نذرا لله فلا تتأخر عن الوفاء به. لانه لا يسرّ بالجهال. فاوف بما نذرته.	4 And it is much better not to vow, than after a vow not to perform the things promised.
5 ان لا تنذر خير من ان تنذر ولا تفي.	5 Give not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin: and say not before the angel: There is no providence: lest God be angry at thy words, and destroy all the works of thy hands.
6 لا تدع فمك يجعل جسدك يخطئ. ولا تقل قدام الملاك انه سهو. لماذا يغضب الله على قولك ويفسد عمل يديك.	6 Where there are many dreams, there are many vanities, and words without number: but do thou fear God.
7 لان ذلك من كثرة الاحلام والاباطيل وكثرة الكلام. ولكن اخش الله	7 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:
8 ان رأيت ظلم الفقير ونزع الحق والعدل في البلاد فلا ترتع من الأمر. لان فوق العالي عاليا يلاحظ والاعلى فوقهما.	8 Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.
9 ومنفعة الارض للكل. الملك مخدوم من الحقل.	9 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.
10 من يحب الفضة لا يشبع من الفضة ومن يحب الثروة لا يشبع من دخل. هذا ايضا باطل.	10 Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
11 اذا كثرت الخيرات كثر الذين يأكلونها واي منفعة لصاحبها الا رؤيتها بعينيه.	11 Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
12 نوم المشتغل حلو ان اكل قليلا او كثيرا ووفر الغني لا يريحه حتى ينام.	12 There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
13 يوجد شر خبيث رأيته تحت الشمس. ثروة مصونة لصاحبها لضرره.	13 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
14 فهلكت تلك الثروة بامر سيء ثم ولد ابنا وما بيده شيء.	14 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.
15 كما خرج من بطن امه عريانا يرجع ذاهبا كما جاء ولا يأخذ شيئا من تعبه فيذهب به في يده.	15 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?
16 وهذا ايضا مصيبة رديئة. في كل شيء كما جاء هكذا يذهب فايّة منفعة له للذي تعب للريح.	16 All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.
17 ايضا يأكل كل ايامه في الظلام ويغتم كثيرا مع حزن وغيظ	17 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.
18 هوذا الذي رأيته انا خيرا الذي هو حسن. ان يأكل الانسان ويشرب ويرى خيرا من كل تعبه الذي يتعب فيه تحت الشمس مدة ايام حياته التي اعطاه الله اياها لانه نصيبه.	18 And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.
19 ايضا كل انسان اعطاه الله غنى ومالا وسلّطه عليه حتى ياكل منه وياخذ نصيبه ويفرح بتعبه فهذا هو عطية الله.	19 For he shall not much remember the days of his life, because God entertaineth his heart with delight,
20 لانه لا يذكر ايام حياته كثيرا لان الله ملهيه بفرح قلبه