Ecclesiastes · Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Ecclesiastes 9 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 Доиста све ово сложих у срце своје да бих расветлио све то, како су праведни и мудри и дела њихова у руци Божијој, а човек не зна ни љубави ни мржње од свега што је пред њим.
1 For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
2 Све бива свима једнако: праведнику бива као безбожнику, добром и чистом као нечистом, оном који приноси жртву као оном који не приноси, како добром тако грешнику, оном који се куне као оном који се боји заклетве.
2 All things come alike to all. There is one event to the righteous and to the wicked; to the good, to the clean, to the unclean, to him who sacrifices, and to him who doesn’t sacrifice. As is the good, so is the sinner; he who takes an oath, as he who fears an oath.
3 А то је најгоре од свега што бива под сунцем што свима једнако бива, те је и срце људско пуно зла, и лудост им је у срцу док су живи, а потом умиру.
3 This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yes 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 Јер ко ће бити изабран? У живих свих има надања; и псу живом боље је него мртвом лаву.
4 For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
5 Јер живи знају да ће умрети, а мртви не знају ништа нити им има плате, јер им се спомен заборавио.
5 For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
6 И љубави њихове и мржње њихове и зависти њихове нестало је, и више немају дела никада ни у чему што бива под сунцем.
6 Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.
7 Хајде, једи хлеб свој с радошћу, и веселог срца пиј вино своје, јер су мила Богу дела твоја.
7 Go your way—eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already accepted your works.
8 Свагда нека су ти хаљине беле, и уља на глави твојој да не недостаје.
8 Let your garments be always white, and don’t let your head lack oil.
9 Уживај живот са женом коју љубиш свега века свог таштог, који ти је дат под сунцем за све време таштине твоје, јер ти је то део у животу и од труда твог којим се трудиш под сунцем.
9 Live joyfully with the wife whom you love all the days of your life of vanity, which he has given you under the sun, all your days of vanity, for that is your portion in life, and in your labor in which you labor under the sun.
10 Све што ти дође на руку да чиниш, чини по могућности својој, јер нема рада ни мишљења ни знања ни мудрости у гробу у који идеш.
10 Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
11 Опет видех под сунцем да није до брзих трка, ни рат до храбрих, ни хлеб до мудрих, ни богатство до разумних, ни добра воља до вештих, него да све стоји до времена и згоде.
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 favor to men of skill; but time and chance happen to them all.
12 Јер човек не зна време своје, него као што се рибе хватају мрежом несрећном и као што се птице хватају пруглом, тако се хватају синови човечији у зао час, кад навали на њих изненада.
12 For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.
13 Видех и ову мудрост под сунцем, која ми се учини велика:
13 I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.
14 Беше мален град и у њему мало људи; и дође на њ велик цар, и опколи га и начини око њега велике опкопе.
14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and a great king came against it, besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it.
15 А нађе се у њему сиромах човек мудар, који избави град мудрошћу својом, а нико се не сећаше тог сиромаха човека.
15 Now a poor wise man was found in it, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
16 Тада ја рекох: Боља је мудрост него снага, ако се и не мараше за мудрост оног сиромаха и речи се његове не слушаху.
16 Then I said, “Wisdom is better than strength.” Nevertheless the poor man’s wisdom is despised, and his words are not heard.
17 Речи мудрих људи ваља с миром слушати више него вику оног који заповеда међу лудима.
17 The words of the wise heard in quiet are better than the cry of him who rules among fools.
18 Боља је мудрост него оружје убојито; али један грешник квари многа добра.
18 Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroys much good.
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Deuteronomy 33:3; John 10:27–30; Job 12:10; Ecclesiastes 8:14; 1 Peter 1:5
- 2 Malachi 3:18; Ecclesiastes 2:14–16; Job 9:22; Psalm 73:3; Malachi 3:5
- 3 Jeremiah 17:9; Ecclesiastes 8:11; Ecclesiastes 1:17; Job 15:16; Titus 3:3
- 4 Job 14:7–12; Isaiah 38:18; Luke 16:26–29; Lamentations 3:21–22; Job 27:8
- 5 Isaiah 26:14; Ecclesiastes 1:11; Psalm 6:5; Psalm 88:10–12; Hebrews 9:27
- 6 Psalm 146:3–4; Matthew 2:20; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Job 3:17–18; Ecclesiastes 2:18–23
- 7 Ecclesiastes 3:12–13; Deuteronomy 12:7; Ecclesiastes 10:19; Ecclesiastes 8:15; Ecclesiastes 2:24–26
- 8 Revelation 19:14; Revelation 3:4–5; Revelation 19:8; Revelation 7:13–14; Revelation 16:15
- 9 Proverbs 5:18–19; Ecclesiastes 2:10; Malachi 2:15; Ecclesiastes 6:12; Ecclesiastes 3:13
- 10 Colossians 3:23; Ephesians 5:16; Romans 12:11; Psalm 6:5; Ecclesiastes 11:6
- 11 Jeremiah 9:23; Proverbs 21:30–31; Lamentations 3:37–38; Job 5:11–14; Ecclesiastes 3:17
- 12 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Luke 21:34–36; Proverbs 6:15; Luke 12:20; Proverbs 29:6
- 13 Ecclesiastes 8:16; Ecclesiastes 7:15; Ecclesiastes 6:1; Ecclesiastes 9:11
- 14 2 Samuel 20:15–22; 2 Kings 6:24–7:20
- 15 Ecclesiastes 4:13; Genesis 40:23; Esther 6:2–3; 2 Samuel 20:22; Ecclesiastes 2:16
- 16 Ecclesiastes 7:19; Proverbs 24:5; Proverbs 21:22; Mark 6:2–3; James 2:2–6
- 17 James 3:17–18; Proverbs 28:23; James 1:20; Isaiah 42:2; Genesis 41:33–40
- 18 Joshua 7:1; Joshua 7:11–12; Joshua 7:5; 2 Timothy 2:16–18; Ecclesiastes 9:16
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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).
How these were chosen
“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).
… thy wine with a merry heart (that is, the spiritual wine); and let oil be poured out upon thy head (thou seest he alludes even to the mystic Chrism); and let thy garments be always white, for the Lord is well pleased with thy works; for before thou camest to Baptism, thy works were vanity of vanities.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
So, since no human voice is strong enough to be heard in such a disturbance, I reckon silence more profitable than speech, for if there is any truth in the words of the Preacher, "The words of wise men are heard in quiet," in the present condition of things any discussion of them must be anything but becoming.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)