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Prédikarinn 9
Icelandic Bible
Prédikarinn 9
Icelandic Bible
9 Öllu þessu veitti ég athygli, og allt þetta reyndi ég að rannsaka: Að hinir réttlátu og vitru og verk þeirra eru í hendi Guðs. Hvorki elsku né hatur veit maðurinn fyrir, allt liggur fram undan þeim.
2 Allt getur alla hent, sömu örlög mæta réttlátum og óguðlegum, góðum og hreinum og óhreinum, þeim er fórnfærir og þeim er ekki fórnfærir. Hinum góða farnast eins og syndaranum, og þeim er sver eins og þeim er óttast svardaga.
3 Það er ókostur við allt, sem við ber undir sólinni, að sömu örlög mæta öllum, og því fyllist hjarta mannanna illsku, og heimska ríkir í hjörtum þeirra alla ævi þeirra, og síðan liggur leiðin til hinna dauðu.
4 Því að meðan maður er sameinaður öllum sem lifa, á meðan er von, því að lifandi hundur er betri en dautt ljón.
5 Því að þeir sem lifa, vita að þeir eiga að deyja, en hinir dauðu vita ekki neitt og hljóta engin laun framar, því að minning þeirra gleymist.
6 Bæði elska þeirra og hatur og öfund, það er fyrir löngu farið, og þeir eiga aldrei framar hlutdeild í neinu því, sem við ber undir sólinni.
7 Far því og et brauð þitt með ánægju og drekk vín þitt með glöðu hjarta, því að Guð hefir þegar lengi haft velþóknun á verkum þínum.
8 Klæði þín séu ætíð hvít og höfuð þitt skorti aldrei ilmsmyrsl.
9 Njót þú lífsins með þeirri konu, sem þú elskar, alla daga þíns fánýta lífs, sem hann hefir gefið þér undir sólinni, alla þína fánýtu daga, því að það er hlutdeild þín í lífinu og það sem þú fær fyrir strit þitt, sem þú streitist við undir sólinni.
10 Allt, sem hönd þín megnar að gjöra með kröftum þínum, gjör þú það, því að í dánarheimum, þangað sem þú fer, er hvorki starfsemi né hyggindi né þekking né viska.
11 Enn sá ég undir sólinni, að hinir fljótu ráða ekki yfir hlaupinu, né kapparnir yfir stríðinu, né heldur spekingarnir yfir brauðinu, né hinir hyggnu yfir auðnum, né vitsmunamennirnir yfir vinsældinni, því að tími og tilviljun mætir þeim öllum.
12 Því að maðurinn þekkir ekki einu sinni sinn tíma: Eins og fiskarnir festast í hinu háskalega neti og eins og fuglarnir festast í snörunni _ á líkan hátt verða mennirnir fangnir á óheillatíð, þá er hún kemur skyndilega yfir þá.
13 Þetta sá ég einnig sem speki undir sólinni, og fannst mér mikið um:
14 Einu sinni var lítil borg og fáir menn í henni. Voldugur konungur fór í móti henni og settist um hana og reisti mikil hervirki gegn henni.
15 En í borginni var fátækur maður, en vitur, og hann bjargaði borginni með viturleik sínum. En enginn maður minntist þessa fátæka manns.
16 Þá hugsaði ég: Viska er betri en afl, en viska fátæks manns er fyrirlitin, og orðum hans er eigi gaumur gefinn.
17 Orð viturra manna, sem hlustað er á í ró, eru betri en óp valdhafans meðal heimskingjanna.
18 Viska er betri en hervopn, en einn syndari spillir mörgu góðu.
Ecclesiastes 9
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 9
New International Version
A Common Destiny for All
9 So I reflected on all this and concluded that the righteous and the wise and what they do are in God’s hands, but no one knows whether love or hate awaits them.(A) 2 All share a common destiny—the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad,[a] the clean and the unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not.
As it is with the good,
so with the sinful;
as it is with those who take oaths,
so with those who are afraid to take them.(B)
3 This is the evil in everything that happens under the sun: The same destiny overtakes all.(C) The hearts of people, moreover, are full of evil and there is madness in their hearts while they live,(D) and afterward they join the dead.(E) 4 Anyone who is among the living has hope[b]—even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!
5 For the living know that they will die,
but the dead know nothing;(F)
they have no further reward,
and even their name(G) is forgotten.(H)
6 Their love, their hate
and their jealousy have long since vanished;
never again will they have a part
in anything that happens under the sun.(I)
7 Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine(J) with a joyful heart,(K) for God has already approved what you do. 8 Always be clothed in white,(L) and always anoint your head with oil. 9 Enjoy life with your wife,(M) whom you love, all the days of this meaningless life that God has given you under the sun—all your meaningless days. For this is your lot(N) in life and in your toilsome labor under the sun. 10 Whatever(O) your hand finds to do, do it with all your might,(P) for in the realm of the dead,(Q) where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.(R)
11 I have seen something else under the sun:
The race is not to the swift
or the battle to the strong,(S)
nor does food come to the wise(T)
or wealth to the brilliant
or favor to the learned;
but time and chance(U) happen to them all.(V)
12 Moreover, no one knows when their hour will come:
As fish are caught in a cruel net,
or birds are taken in a snare,
so people are trapped by evil times(W)
that fall unexpectedly upon them.(X)
Wisdom Better Than Folly
13 I also saw under the sun this example of wisdom(Y) that greatly impressed me: 14 There was once a small city with only a few people in it. And a powerful king came against it, surrounded it and built huge siege works against it. 15 Now there lived in that city a man poor but wise, and he saved the city by his wisdom. But nobody remembered that poor man.(Z) 16 So I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” But the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are no longer heeded.(AA)
17 The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded
than the shouts of a ruler of fools.
18 Wisdom(AB) is better than weapons of war,
but one sinner destroys much good.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint (Aquila), Vulgate and Syriac; Hebrew does not have and the bad.
- Ecclesiastes 9:4 Or What then is to be chosen? With all who live, there is hope
Ecclesiastes 9
King James Version
Ecclesiastes 9
King James Version
9 For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
2 All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3 This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
8 Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
10 Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
15 Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16 Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
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