For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？

论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？

论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？

离了上帝，谁还能吃喝享受呢？

离开了他（按《马索拉文本》“离开了他”作“除了我”；现参照《七十士译本》等古译本翻译），谁能有吃的呢？谁能享乐呢？

因为离了他，谁能吃喝，谁能享受呢？

論到吃用、享福，誰能勝過我呢？

論到吃用、享福，誰能勝過我呢？

論到吃用、享福，誰能勝過我呢？

離了上帝，誰還能吃喝享受呢？

離開了他（按《馬索拉文本》“離開了他”作“除了我”；現參照《七十士譯本》等古譯本翻譯），誰能有吃的呢？誰能享樂呢？

因為除非由他、誰能喫食，誰能享樂呢？

因為離了他，誰能吃喝，誰能享受呢？

論食與享、孰能勝於我乎、

論所食所享、孰能勝我、又作若非天主所許孰能食孰能享

for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

Without his help, who can eat or find pleasure?

for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him?

because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from him?

For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from Him?

For who can eat, or who else can hasten[ hereunto], more than I?

For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him.

I said in my heart,“ Come now, I will test you with mirth: therefore enjoy pleasure;” and behold, this also was vanity.I said of laughter,“ It is foolishness;” and of mirth,“ What does it accomplish?”I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.I made myself pools of water, to water from it the forest where trees were grown.I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments, and that of all sorts.So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly; for what can the king’s successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the River to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt. They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty cors of fine flour, sixty measures of meal,ten head of fat cattle, twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, in addition to deer, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.For he had dominion over all on this side the River, from Tiphsah even to Gaza, over all the kings on this side the River: and he had peace on all sides around him.