傳道書《凡事有定期》There is a time for everything

 

傳 道 書 Ecclesiastes

3:1   凡事都有定期、天下萬務都有定時．

3:2   生有時、死有時．栽種有時、拔出所栽種的、也有時．

3:3   殺戮有時、醫治有時．拆毀有時、建造有時．

3:4   哭有時、笑有時．哀慟有時、跳舞有時．

3:5   拋擲石頭有時、堆聚石頭有時．懷抱有時、不懷抱有時．

3:6   尋找有時、失落有時．保守有時、捨棄有時．

3:7   撕裂有時、縫補有時．靜默有時、言語有時．

3:8   喜愛有時、恨惡有時．爭戰有時、和好有時。

3:9   這樣看來、作事的人在他的勞碌上有甚麼益處呢。

3:10  我見　神叫世人勞苦、使他們在其中受經練。

3:11  神造萬物、各按其時成為美好．又將永生安置在世人心裡．〔永生原文作永遠〕

           然而　神從始至終的作為、人不能參透。

3:12  我知道世人、莫強如終身喜樂行善。

3:13  並且人人喫喝、在他一切勞碌中享福．這也是　神的恩賜。

3:14  我知道　神一切所作的、都必永存、無所增添、無所減少．　

           神這樣行、是要人在他面前存敬畏的心。

[原文]

3   There is a time for everything，and a season for every activity under the heavens:

²    a time to be born and a time to die， a time to plant and a time to uproot,

³   a time to kill and a time to heal，a time to tear down and a time to build,

⁴   a time to weep and a time to laugh，a time to mourn and a time to dance,

⁵    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,

      a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,

⁶    a time to search and a time to give up，a time to keep and a time to throw away,

⁷    a time to tear and a time to mend，a time to be silent and a time to speak,

⁸    a time to love and a time to hate，a time for war and a time for peace.

⁹    What do workers gain from their toil? ¹⁰ I have seen the burden God has laid on the human    

    race.

 ¹¹  He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart;

    yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

¹²  I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they

     live.

¹³    That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil

      —this is the gift of God.

¹⁴   I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing

     taken from it. God does it so that

附記│

1959 年，Peter Seeger 為這段經文譜曲，名為《Turn Turn Turn 》

直到 1962 年才收錄在《The Bitter and Sweet》專輯中，

1965 年，美國搖滾樂團 Byrd  加以翻唱，並收錄於同名專輯中，這首歌曾拿下告示牌冠軍