I said to myself,“ Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.

我心里说：“来吧，我以喜乐试试你，你好享福！”谁知，这也是虚空。

我心里说：“来吧，让我用喜乐试试你，使你享福！”看哪，这也是虚空。

我心里说：“来吧，让我用喜乐试试你，使你享福！”看哪，这也是虚空。

我心里想：“来吧，不如尽情享乐，好好享受！”唉！结果这也是虚空。

我自己心里说：“来吧，我用享乐试试你，让你看看有什么好处。”想不到，这也是虚空。

我对自己说：“来吧，我要用享乐试验你，让你看看有什么好处！”看哪，这也是虚空！

我心裏說：「來吧，我以喜樂試試你，你好享福！」誰知，這也是虛空。

我心裏說：「來吧，讓我用喜樂試試你，使你享福！」看哪，這也是虛空。

我心裏說：「來吧，讓我用喜樂試試你，使你享福！」看哪，這也是虛空。

我心裡想：「來吧，不如盡情享樂，好好享受！」唉！結果這也是虛空。

我自己心裡說：“來吧，我用享樂試試你，讓你看看有甚麼好處。”想不到，這也是虛空。

我心裏說：『來！我要以喜樂試試你，你只管享樂。』唉，這也是虛空。

我對自己說：「來吧，我要用享樂試驗你，讓你看看有什麼好處！」看哪，這也是虛空！

我心自謂、其來、我以逸樂試爾、可享福祉、斯亦虛空、

我竊自維、試耽宴樂、試樂逸遊、明知歸於無有。

我自思曰、原文作我心中曰不如試宴樂、享安逸、乃知此亦屬於虛、

I said to myself,“ Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.

I said to myself,“ Come on. I’ll try out pleasure. I want to find out if it is good.” But it also proved to be meaningless.

I said in my heart,“ Come now, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy yourself.” But behold, this also was vanity.

I said to myself,“ Come on, let’s try pleasure. Let’s look for the‘ good things’ in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless.

I said to myself,“ Go ahead, I will test you with pleasure; enjoy what is good.” But it turned out to be futile.

I said to myself,“ Come now, I will test you with pleasure. So enjoy yourself.” And behold, it too was futility.

I said in my heart,“ Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity.

I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.

I said in mine heart, Go to now, I will prove thee with mirth, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also[ is] vanity.

I thought to myself,“ Come now, I will try self-indulgent pleasure to see if it is worthwhile.” But I found that it also is futile.

I said in my heart,“ Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.

Then I’ll say to myself,“ You have many goods stored up for many years. Take it easy; eat, drink, and enjoy yourself.”’

So I commended enjoyment because there is nothing better for man under the sun than to eat, drink, and enjoy himself, for this will accompany him in his labor during the days of his life that God gives him under the sun.

I said to myself,“ God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every work.”I said to myself,“ This happens concerning people, so that God may test them and they may see for themselves that they are like animals.”

Therefore, the king of Aram said,“ Go and I will send a letter with you to the king of Israel.” So he went and took with him 750 pounds of silver, 150 pounds of gold, and 10 changes of clothes.

They said to each other,“ Come, let us make oven-fired bricks.” They used brick for stone and asphalt for mortar.And they said,“ Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky. Let us make a name for ourselves; otherwise, we will be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all of these things God will bring you to judgment.

You have lived luxuriously on the land and have indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts for the day of slaughter.

“ There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, feasting lavishly every day.

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.

So I said to myself,“ What happens to the fool will also happen to me. Why then have I been overly wise?” And I said to myself that this is also futile.

As much as she glorified herself and lived luxuriously, give her that much torment and grief, for she says in her heart,“ I sit as a queen; I am not a widow, and I will never see grief.”For this reason her plagues will come in one day— death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.

The Lord God has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious; I did not turn back.

The fool says in his heart,“ God does not exist.” They are corrupt; they do vile deeds. There is no one who does good.

My heart says this about You,“ You are to seek My face.” Lord, I will seek Your face.

He says to himself,“ I will never be moved— from generation to generation without calamity.”

Now I will tell you what I am about to do to My vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.

When I was secure, I said,“ I will never be shaken.”Lord, when You showed Your favor, You made me stand like a strong mountain; when You hid Your face, I was terrified.

Come, let Us go down there and confuse their language so that they will not understand one another’s speech.”

Look, all you who kindle a fire, who encircle yourselves with firebrands; walk in the light of your fire and in the firebrands you have lit! This is what you’ll get from My hand: you will lie down in a place of torment.

I said to myself,“ Look, I have amassed wisdom far beyond all those who were over Jerusalem before me, and my mind has thoroughly grasped wisdom and knowledge.”I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

Come now, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”

The heart of the wise is in a house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in a house of pleasure.

Come now, you rich people! Weep and wail over the miseries that are coming on you.

And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.