Qoelet 2

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Dixi ego in corde meo: “ Veni, tentabo te gaudio: fruere bo nis ”; etecce hoc quoque vanitas.	1 I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.
2 De risu dixi: “ Insania ” et de gaudio: “ Quid prodest? ”.	2 Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?
3 Tractavi in corde meo detinere in vino carnem meam, cum cor meum duceretur insapientia, et amplecti stultitiam, donec viderem quid esset utile filiishominum, ut faciant sub sole paucis diebus vitae suae.	3 I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.
4 Magnificavi opera mea:aedificavi mihi domos et plantavi vineas,	4 I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,
5 feci hortos et pomaria et consevi eaarboribus cuncti generis fructuum	5 I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,
6 et exstruxi mihi piscinas aquarum, utirrigarem silvam lignorum germinantium.	6 And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,
7 Possedi servos et ancillas et habuimultam familiam, habui armenta quoque et magnos ovium greges ultra omnes, quifuerunt ante me in Ierusalem.	7 I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:
8 Coacervavi mihi etiam argentum et aurum etsubstantias regum ac provinciarum, feci mihi cantores et cantatrices et deliciasfiliorum hominum, scyphos et urceos in ministerio ad vina fundenda	8 I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:
9 et crevi,supergressus sum omnes, qui ante me fuerunt in Ierusalem; sapientia quoque meaperseveravit mecum.	9 And I surpassed in riches all that were before me in Jerusalem: my wisdom also remained with me.
10 Et omnia, quae desideraverunt oculi mei, non negavi eisnec prohibui cor meum ab omni voluptate, et oblectatum est ex omnibus laboribus,et hanc ratus sum partem meam ab omnibus aerumnis meis.	10 And whatsoever my eyes desired, I refused them not: and I withheld not my heart from enjoying every pleasure, and delighting itself in the things which I had prepared: and esteemed this my portion, to make use of my own labour.
11 Cumque meconvertissem ad universa opera, quae fecerant manus meae, et ad labores, inquibus sudaveram, et ecce in omnibus vanitas et afflictio spiritus, et nihillucri esse sub sole.	11 And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
12 Verti me ad contemplandam sapientiam et insipientiam et stultitiam: “ Quidfaciet, inquam, homo, qui veniet post regem? Id quod antea fecerunt ”.	12 I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I, that he can follow the King his maker?)
13 Etvidi quod tantum praecederet sapientia stultitiam, quantum lux praecedittenebras.	13 And I saw that wisdom excelled folly, as much as light differeth from darkness.
14 “ Sapientis oculi in capite eius, stultus in tenebris ambulat ”; et didici quod unus utriusque esset interitus.	14 The eyes of a wise man are in his head: the fool walketh in darkness: and I learned that they were to die both alike.
15 Et dixi in corde meo: “ Si unus et stulti et meus occasus erit, quid mihiprodest quod maiorem sapientiae dedi operam? ”. Locutusque cum mente mea,animadverti quod hoc quoque esset vanitas.	15 And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.
16 Non enim erit memoria sapientissimiliter ut stulti in perpetuum; siquidem futura tempora oblivione cunctapariter operient: moritur doctus similiter ut indoctus.	16 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.
17 Et idcirco taeduit me vitae meae, quia malum mihi est, quod sub sole fit;cuncta enim vanitas et afflictio spiritus.	17 And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
18 Rursus detestatus sum omnemlaborem meum, quo sub sole laboravi, quem relicturus sum homini, qui erit postme;	18 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,
19 et quis scit utrum sapiens an stultus futurus sit? Et dominabitur inlaboribus meis, quibus desudavi et sollicitus fui sub sole. Hoc quoque vanitas.	19 Whom I know not whether he will be a wise man or a fool, and he shall have rule over all my labours with which I have laboured and been solicitous: and is there any thing so vain?
20 Verti me exasperans cor meum de omni labore, quo laboravi sub sole.	20 Wherefore I left off and my heart renounced labouring any more under the sun.
21 Namest qui laborat in sapientia et doctrina et sollicitudine, et homini, qui nonlaboraverit, dabit portionem suam; et hoc ergo vanitas et magnum malum.	21 For when a man laboureth in wisdom, and knowledge, and carefulness, he leaveth what he hath gotten to an idle man: so this also is vanity, and a great evil.
22 Quid enim proderit homini de universo labore suo et afflictione cordis, quasub sole laboravit?	22 For what profit shall a man have of all his labour, and vexation of spirit, with which he bath been tormented under the sun?
23 Cuncti dies eius dolores sunt, et aerumnae occupatioeius, nec per noctem cor eius requiescit; et hoc quoque vanitas est.	23 All his days axe full of sorrows and miseries, even in the night he doth not rest in mind: and is not this vanity?
24 Nihilmelius est homini quam comedere et bibere et ostendere animae suae bona delaboribus suis. Et hoc vidi de manu Dei esse.	24 Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.
25 Quis enim comedet et deliciisaffluet sine eo?	25 Who shall so feast and abound with delights as I?
26 Quia homini bono in conspectu suo dedit sapientiam et scientiam et laetitiam;peccatori autem dedit afflictionem colligendi et congregandi, ut tradat ei, quiplacuit Deo; sed et hoc vanitas est et afflictio spiritus.	26 God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.