So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

因此，他叫他们的日子全归虚空，叫他们的年岁尽属惊恐。

因此，他使他们的日子全归虚空，叫他们的年岁尽属惊恐。

因此，他使他们的日子全归虚空，叫他们的年岁尽属惊恐。

所以上帝使他们虚度一生，让他们的岁月充满恐惧。

所以神使他们的日子在虚空中消逝，使他们的岁月在惊恐中完结。

所以他使他们的日子在虚空中消逝，使他们的岁月在突然惊恐中消亡。

因此，他叫他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。

因此，他使他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。

因此，他使他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。

所以上帝使他們虛度一生，讓他們的歲月充滿恐懼。

所以神使他們的日子在虛空中消逝，使他們的歲月在驚恐中完結。

因此上帝使他們的日子全消盡於虛幻中，使他們的年月也消逝於突臨的驚恐中。

所以他使他們的日子在虛空中消逝，使他們的歲月在突然驚恐中消亡。

故使其度日虛空、歷年驚恐兮、

上帝使之、終日艱難、窮年觳觫兮。

因此天主使之空虛度日、戰兢終身、

主乃降罰。紛紛夭折。肅殺之威。令人懍慄。

So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

So he brought their days to an end like a puff of smoke. He ended their years with terror.

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.

He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.

So He brought their days to an end in futility, And their years to an end in sudden terror.

Therefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Your dead bodies will fall in this wilderness– all those of you who were numbered, according to your full number, from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against me.

I, the LORD, have said,“ I will surely do so to all this evil congregation that has gathered together against me. In this wilderness they will be finished, and there they will die!”’”

But there was not a man among these who had been among those numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they numbered the Israelites in the wilderness of Sinai.For the LORD had said of them,“ They will surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a single man of them, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

For evil does not come up from the dust, nor does trouble spring up from the ground,but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

Now the length of time it took for us to go from Kadesh Barnea to the crossing of Wadi Zered was thirty-eight years, time for all the military men of that generation to die, just as the LORD had vowed to them.Indeed, it was the very hand of the LORD that eliminated them from within the camp until they were all gone.So it was that after all the military men had been eliminated from the community,

Having heard everything, I have reached this conclusion: Fear God and keep his commandments, because this is the whole duty of man.For God will evaluate every deed, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.

“ Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher,“ All of these things are futile!”

“ Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

I decided to carefully and thoroughly examine all that has been accomplished on earth. I concluded: God has given people a burdensome task that keeps them occupied.I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile– like chasing the wind!

To the woman he said,“ I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you.”But to Adam he said,“ Because you obeyed your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you,‘ You must not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground thanks to you; in painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.It will produce thorns and thistles for you, but you will eat the grain of the field.By the sweat of your brow you will eat food until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you will return.”

Yes, we are consumed by your anger; we are terrified by your wrath.You are aware of our sins; you even know about our hidden sins.Yes, throughout all our days we experience your raging fury; the years of our lives pass quickly, like a sigh.

“ Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher,“ Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”