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

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

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 will tell my soul,“ Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”’

Then I commended mirth, because a man has no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be joyful: for that will accompany him in his labor all the days of his life which God has given him under the sun.

I said in my heart,“ God will judge the righteous and the wicked; for there is a time there for every purpose and for every work.”I said in my heart,“ As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

The king of Syria said,“ Go now, and I will send a letter to the king of Israel.” He departed, and took with him ten talents of silver, and six thousand pieces of gold, and ten changes of clothing.

They said to one another,“ Come, let’s make bricks, and burn them thoroughly.” They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.They said,“ Come, let’s build ourselves a city, and a tower whose top reaches to the sky, and let’s make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad on the surface of the whole earth.”

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you 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 these things God will bring you into judgment.

You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

“ Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Then I said in my heart,“ As it happens to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise?” Then I said in my heart that this also is vanity.

However much she glorified herself, and grew wanton, so much give her of torment and mourning. For she says in her heart,‘ I sit a queen, and am no widow, and will in no way see mourning.’Therefore in one day her plagues will come: death, mourning, and famine; and she will be utterly burned with fire; for the Lord God who has judged her is strong.

The Lord Yahweh has opened my ear. I was not rebellious. I have not turned back.

The fool has said in his heart,“ There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

When you said,“ Seek my face,” my heart said to you,“ I will seek your face, Yahweh.”

He says in his heart,“ I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”

Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.

As for me, I said in my prosperity,“ I shall never be moved.”You, Yahweh, when you favored me, made my mountain stand strong; but when you hid your face, I was troubled.

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

Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who adorn yourselves with torches around yourselves, walk in the flame of your fire, and among the torches that you have kindled. You will have this from my hand: you will lie down in sorrow.

I said to myself,“ Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.

Come now, you who say,“ Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”

The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning; but the heart of fools is in the house of mirth.

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom.