传道书 1:12-18
Chinese Union Version Modern Punctuation (Simplified)
12 我传道者,在耶路撒冷做过以色列的王。 13 我专心用智慧寻求查究天下所做的一切事,乃知神叫世人所经练的,是极重的劳苦。 14 我见日光之下所做的一切事都是虚空,都是捕风。 15 弯曲的不能变直,缺少的不能足数。 16 我心里议论说:“我得了大智慧,胜过我以前在耶路撒冷的众人,而且我心中多经历智慧和知识的事。” 17 我又专心察明智慧、狂妄和愚昧,乃知这也是捕风。 18 因为多有智慧就多有愁烦,加增知识的就加增忧伤。
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Ecclesiastes 1:12-18
King James Version
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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Ecclesiastes 1:12-18
New International Version
Wisdom Is Meaningless
12 I, the Teacher,(A) was king over Israel in Jerusalem.(B) 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.(C) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!(D) 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(E)
15 What is crooked cannot be straightened;(F)
what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I said to myself, “Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me;(G) I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge.” 17 Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(H) and also of madness and folly,(I) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
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