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Knjiga Propovednikova 9
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Knjiga Propovednikova
Capitolo 9
1
Doista sve ovo složih u srce svoje da bih rasvetlio sve to, kako su pravedni i mudri i dela njihova u ruci Božijoj, a čovek ne zna ni ljubavi ni mržnje od svega što je pred njim.
2
Sve biva svima jednako: pravedniku biva kao bezbožniku, dobrom i čistom kao nečistom, onom koji prinosi žrtvu kao onom koji ne prinosi, kako dobrom tako grešniku, onom koji se kune kao onom koji se boji zakletve.
3
A to je najgore od svega što biva pod suncem što svima jednako biva, te je i srce ljudsko puno zla, i ludost im je u srcu dok su živi, a potom umiru.
4
Jer ko će biti izabran? U živih svih ima nadanja; i psu živom bolje je nego mrtvom lavu.
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Jer živi znaju da će umreti, a mrtvi ne znaju ništa niti im ima plate, jer im se spomen zaboravio.
6
I ljubavi njihove i mržnje njihove i zavisti njihove nestalo je, i više nemaju dela nikada ni u čemu što biva pod suncem.
7
Hajde, jedi hleb svoj s radošću, i veselog srca pij vino svoje, jer su mila Bogu dela tvoja.
8
Svagda neka su ti haljine bele, i ulja na glavi tvojoj da ne nedostaje.
9
Uživaj život sa ženom koju ljubiš svega veka svog taštog, koji ti je dat pod suncem za sve vreme taštine tvoje, jer ti je to deo u životu i od truda tvog kojim se trudiš pod suncem.
10
Sve što ti dođe na ruku da činiš, čini po mogućnosti svojoj, jer nema rada ni mišljenja ni znanja ni mudrosti u grobu u koji ideš.
11
Opet videh pod suncem da nije do brzih trka, ni rat do hrabrih, ni hleb do mudrih, ni bogatstvo do razumnih, ni dobra volja do veštih, nego da sve stoji do vremena i zgode.
12
Jer čovek ne zna vreme svoje, nego kao što se ribe hvataju mrežom nesrećnom i kao što se ptice hvataju pruglom, tako se hvataju sinovi čovečiji u zao čas, kad navali na njih iznenada.
13
Videh i ovu mudrost pod suncem, koja mi se učini velika:
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Beše malen grad i u njemu malo ljudi; i dođe na nj velik car, i opkoli ga i načini oko njega velike opkope.
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A nađe se u njemu siromah čovek mudar, koji izbavi grad mudrošću svojom, a niko se ne sećaše tog siromaha čoveka.
16
Tada ja rekoh: Bolja je mudrost nego snaga, ako se i ne maraše za mudrost onog siromaha i reči se njegove ne slušahu.
17
Reči mudrih ljudi valja s mirom slušati više nego viku onog koji zapoveda među ludima.
18
Bolja je mudrost nego oružje ubojito; ali jedan grešnik kvari mnoga dobra.
Ecclesiastes
Capitolo 9
1
For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.
2
All things come alike to all: there is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked; to the good and to the clean, and to the unclean; to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner; and he that sweareth, as he that feareth an oath.
3
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
4
¶ For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
6
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.
7
¶ Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.
8
Let thy garments be always white; and let thy head lack no ointment.
9
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
10
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
11
¶ I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
12
For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.
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¶ This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:
14
There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:
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Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
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Then said I, Wisdom is better than strength: nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.
18
Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.