Ecclesiastes 6

يُوجَدُ شَرٌّ قَدْ رَأَيْتُهُ تَحْتَ الشَّمْسِ وَهُوَ كَثِيرٌ بَيْنَ النَّاسِ:

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

رَجُلٌ أَعْطَاهُ اللهُ غِنًى وَمَالاً وَكَرَامَةً، وَلَيْسَ لِنَفْسِهِ عَوَزٌ مِنْ كُلِّ مَا يَشْتَهِيهِ، وَلَمْ يُعْطِهِ اللهُ اسْتِطَاعَةً عَلَى أَنْ يَأْكُلَ مِنْهُ، بَلْ يَأْكُلُهُ إِنْسَانٌ غَرِيبٌ. هذَا بَاطِلٌ وَمُصِيبَةٌ رَدِيئَةٌ هُوَ.

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

إِنْ وَلَدَ إِنْسَانٌ مِئَةً، وَعَاشَ سِنِينَ كَثِيرَةً حَتَّى تَصِيرَ أَيَّامُ سِنِيهِ كَثِيرَةً، وَلَمْ تَشْبَعْ نَفْسُهُ مِنَ الْخَيْرِ، وَلَيْسَ لَهُ أَيْضًا دَفْنٌ، فَأَقُولُ إِنَّ السِّقْطَ خَيْرٌ مِنْهُ.

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

لأَنَّهُ فِي الْبَاطِلِ يَجِيءُ، وَفِي الظَّلاَمِ يَذْهَبُ، وَاسْمُهُ يُغَطَّى بِالظَّلاَمِ.

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

وَأَيْضًا لَمْ يَرَ الشَّمْسَ وَلَمْ يَعْلَمْ. فَهذَا لَهُ رَاحَةٌ أَكْثَرُ مِنْ ذَاكَ.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

وَإِنْ عَاشَ أَلْفَ سَنَةٍ مُضَاعَفَةً وَلَمْ يَرَ خَيْرًا، أَلَيْسَ إِلَى مَوْضِعٍ وَاحِدٍ يَذْهَبُ الْجَمِيعُ؟

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

كُلُّ تَعَبِ الإِنْسَانِ لِفَمِهِ، وَمَعَ ذلِكَ فَالنَّفْسُ لاَ تَمْتَلِئُ.

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

لأَنَّهُ مَاذَا يَبْقَى لِلْحَكِيمِ أَكْثَرَ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِ؟ مَاذَا لِلْفَقِيرِ الْعَارِفِ السُّلُوكَ أَمَامَ الأَحْيَاءِ؟

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

رُؤْيَةُ الْعُيُونِ خَيْرٌ مِنْ شَهْوَةِ النَّفْسِ. هذَا أَيْضًا بَاطِلٌ وَقَبْضُ الرِّيحِ.

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

الَّذِي كَانَ فَقَدْ دُعِيَ بِاسْمٍ مُنْذُ زَمَانٍ، وَهُوَ مَعْرُوفٌ أَنَّهُ إِنْسَانٌ، وَلاَ يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يُخَاصِمَ مَنْ هُوَ أَقْوَى مِنْهُ.

That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

لأَنَّهُ تُوجَدُ أُمُورٌ كَثِيرَةٌ تَزِيدُ الْبَاطِلَ. فَأَيُّ فَضْل لِلإِنْسَانِ؟

Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

لأَنَّهُ مَنْ يَعْرِفُ مَا هُوَ خَيْرٌ لِلإِنْسَانِ فِي الْحَيَاةِ، مُدَّةَ أَيَّامِ حَيَاةِ بَاطِلِهِ الَّتِي يَقْضِيهَا كَالظِّلِّ؟ لأَنَّهُ مَنْ يُخْبِرُ الإِنْسَانَ بِمَا يَكُونُ بَعْدَهُ تَحْتَ الشَّمْسِ؟

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?