- 5:1 Guard your steps when you go to the house of God, and draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.
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你到神的殿要谨慎脚步；近前聆听，胜过愚昧人献祭；因为他们不知道所作的是恶。
- 5:2 Do not be rash with your mouth, and let not your heart hastily utter anything before God; for God is in heaven and you are on the earth; therefore let your words be few.
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你在神面前不可冒失开口，也不可心急发言；因为神在天上，你在地上，所以你的言语要寡少。
- 5:3 For a dream comes through a multitude of travail, and a fool's voice through a multitude of words.
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烦扰多，令人作梦；言语多，显出愚昧。
- 5:4 When you make a vow to God, do not delay in paying it; for He takes no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
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你向神许愿，偿还不可迟延，因祂不喜悦愚昧人。你许了愿，就当偿还。
- 5:5 It is better that you do not vow than that you vow and not pay.
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你许愿不还，不如不许。
- 5:6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake. Why should God be angry at your voice and destroy the works of your hands?
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不可任你的口使肉体犯罪，也不可在使者面前说是错许了。为何使神因你的声音发怒，败坏你手所作的呢？
- 5:7 For in the multitude of dreams and in many words are also vanities. Rather, fear God.
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多梦和多言，其中也都是虚空；你只要敬畏神。
- 5:8 If you see the oppression of the poor and the wresting of justice and righteousness in a province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one higher official watches over another high official, and there are higher officials over them.
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你若在一省之中见穷人受欺压，公义和公理被夺去，不要因此诧异；因有一位高过居高位的在鉴察；在他们以上还有更高的。
- 5:9 And a king who cultivates the field is always an advantage for a land.
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君王注重田地的耕种，对国总是有益。
- 5:10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with income. This is also vanity.
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爱银子的，不因得银子知足；爱丰富的，也不因有收入知足。这也是虚空。
- 5:11 When goods increase, those who eat them increase; so what advantage do their owners have except to see them with their eyes?
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货物增多，吃的人也增多，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已。
- 5:12 Sweet is the sleep of the laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the fullness of the rich will not let him sleep.
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劳力的人不拘吃多吃少，睡得香甜；富足人的丰足，却不容他睡觉。
- 5:13 There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept by their owner to his own hurt,
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我见日光之下有一大祸患，就是财主守住财富，反害自己。
- 5:14 And those riches were lost in a bad venture; and having begotten a son, he had nothing in his hand.
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因生意不顺，这些财富就丧失；那人若生了儿子，手里也一无所有。
- 5:15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, he will return naked as he came; and he will take nothing of his labor that he may carry in his hand.
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他怎样出母腹赤身而来，也必照样赤身而去；他所劳碌得来的，手中分毫不能带去。
- 5:16 And this also is a grievous evil: in all points, as he came, so will he go; so what is the advantage to him who has labored for the wind?
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他来的情形怎样，他去的情形也怎样，这也是一大祸患；他为风劳碌有什么益处呢？
- 5:17 Throughout all his days he also eats in darkness and has much vexation and sickness and resentment.
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他终身在黑暗中吃喝，多有烦恼、病痛、愤怨。
- 5:18 Here is what I have seen to be good and what is pleasant: to eat and to drink and to taste enjoyment in all his labor by which he labors under the sun during the few days of his life, which God has given him; for this is his portion.
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我所见为善为美的，就是人在神赐他一生有数的日子吃喝，在日光之下一切劳碌中享美福，因为这是他的分。
- 5:19 Moreover, for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has empowered him to eat of them and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor-this is the gift of God.
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神赐各人赀财丰富，使他能以吃用，能取自己的分，在他劳碌中快乐，这乃是神的恩赐。
- 5:20 For he will not brood much over the days of his life, because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.
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他不多思念自己一生的日子，因为神使他的心忙于享乐。