Ecclesiastes · Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Ecclesiastes 1 Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
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Notes on this text (3)
- eBible.org's edition in the ekavian pronunciation (e.g. свет, грех); Karadžić and Daničić wrote in ijekavian (свијет, гријех).
- No deuterocanonical books.
- Chapter divisions follow the Hebrew Bible in Job 39–41, Ezekiel 20–21, Hosea 11–12 and Jonah 1–2 (verse numbers there differ from English Bibles).
1 Речи проповедника, сина Давидовог цара у Јерусалиму.
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 Таштина над таштинама, вели проповедник, таштина над таштинама, све је таштина.
2 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
3 Каква је корист човеку од свега труда његовог, којим се труди под сунцем?
3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
4 Нараштај један одлази и други долази, а земља стоји увек.
4 One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
5 Сунце излази и залази, и опет хити на место своје одакле излази.
5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
6 Ветар иде на југ и обрће се, и у обртању свом враћа се.
6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
7 Све реке теку у море, и море се не препуња; одакле теку реке, онамо се враћају да опет теку.
7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
8 Све је мучно, да човек не може исказати; око се не може нагледати, нити се ухо може наслушати.
8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 Шта је било то ће бити, шта се чинило то ће се чинити, и нема ништа ново под сунцем.
9 That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Има ли шта за шта би ко рекао: Види, то је ново? Већ је било за векова који су били пре нас.
10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, this is new”? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
11 Не помиње се шта је пре било; ни оно што ће после бити неће се помињати у оних који ће после настати.
11 There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
12 Ја проповедник бејах цар над Израиљем у Јерусалиму.
12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 И управих срце своје да тражим и разберем мудрошћу све што бива под небом; тај мучни посао даде Бог синовима људским да се муче око њега.
13 I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.
14 Видех све што бива под сунцем, и гле, све је таштина и мука духу.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
15 Шта је криво не може се исправити, и недостаци не могу се избројати.
15 That which is crooked can’t be made straight; and that which is lacking can’t be counted.
16 Ја рекох у срцу свом говорећи: Ево, ја постах велик, и претекох мудрошћу све који бише пре мене у Јерусалиму, и срце моје виде много мудрости и знања.
16 I said to myself, “Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 И управих срце своје да познам мудрост и да познам безумље и лудост; па дознах да је и то мука духу.
17 I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind.
18 Јер где је много мудрости, много је бриге, и ко умножава знање умножава муку.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ecclesiastes 12:8–10; Ecclesiastes 1:12; Ecclesiastes 7:27; 1 Kings 11:42–43; 2 Peter 2:5
- 2 Psalm 144:4; Romans 8:20; Ecclesiastes 5:10; Psalm 39:5–6; Ecclesiastes 12:8
- 3 Ecclesiastes 3:9; Ecclesiastes 5:16; Ecclesiastes 2:22; Mark 8:36–37; Ecclesiastes 2:11
- 4 Psalm 104:5; Zechariah 1:5; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Matthew 24:35; Psalm 119:90–91
- 5 Psalm 42:1; Habakkuk 3:11; Psalm 19:4–6; Psalm 104:19–23; Joshua 10:13–14
- 6 John 3:8; Ecclesiastes 11:5; Job 37:9; Psalm 107:29; Job 37:17
- 7 Job 38:10–11
- 8 Proverbs 27:20; Matthew 11:28; Ecclesiastes 4:8; Ecclesiastes 5:10–11; Psalm 63:5
- 9 Ecclesiastes 3:15; Ecclesiastes 6:10; Revelation 21:1; Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 7:10
- 10 Acts 7:51; Matthew 23:30–32; Luke 17:26–30; Matthew 5:12; 2 Timothy 3:8
- 11 Ecclesiastes 2:16; Psalm 9:6; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Isaiah 42:9; Isaiah 41:22–26
- 12 Ecclesiastes 1:1; 1 Kings 4:1–19
- 13 Ecclesiastes 3:10; Genesis 3:19; 1 Timothy 4:15; Ecclesiastes 8:16–17; Ecclesiastes 1:17
- 14 Ecclesiastes 2:11; Ecclesiastes 2:17; Ecclesiastes 2:26; Ecclesiastes 6:9; Ecclesiastes 1:17–18
- 15 Ecclesiastes 7:12–13; Matthew 6:27; Ecclesiastes 3:14; Isaiah 40:4; Lamentations 3:37
- 16 Ecclesiastes 2:9; 1 Kings 4:30; 1 Kings 10:7; 1 Kings 3:12–13; Hebrews 5:14
- 17 Ecclesiastes 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:21; Ecclesiastes 7:23–25; Ecclesiastes 2:10–12; Ecclesiastes 1:13–14
- 18 Job 28:28; Ecclesiastes 12:12–13; 1 Corinthians 3:18–20; Ecclesiastes 7:16; James 3:13–17
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
"Do I not weep much the more?" For, "He that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow." The more I long for what is not here, do I not so much the more groan for it until it comes?
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
But thou canst not; for, "vanity of vanities, all is vanity." Let us go to the tombs; show me thy father; show me thy wife.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)