Mosaico decorativo

1. Omnia tempus habent, et momentum suum cuique negotio sub caelo:

1. For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:

2. tempus nascendi et tempus moriendi, tempus plantandi et tempus evellendi quod plantatum est,

2. a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;

3. tempus occidendi et tempus sanandi, tempus destruendi et tempus aedificandi,

3. a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4. tempus flendi et tempus ridendi, tempus plangendi et tempus saltandi,

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

5. tempus spargendi lapides et tempus eos colligendi, tempus amplexandi et tempus longe fieri ab amplexibus,

5. a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6. tempus quaerendi et tempus perdendi, tempus custodiendi et tempus abiciendi,

6. a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7. tempus scindendi et tempus consuendi, tempus tacendi et tempus loquendi,

7. a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8. tempus dilectionis et tempus odii, tempus belli et tempus pacis.

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

9. Quid lucri habet, qui operatur, de labore suo?

9. What gain has the worker from his toil?

10. Vidi occupationem, quam dedit Deus filiis hominum, ut occuparentur in ea.

10. I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.

11. Cuncta fecit bona in tempore suo; et mundum tradidit cordi eorum, et non inveniet homo opus, quod operatus est Deus ab initio usque ad finem.

11. He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.

12. Cognovi quod nihil boni esset in eis nisi laetari et facere bene in vita sua.

12. I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;

13. Omnis enim homo, qui comedit et bibit et videt bonum de labore suo, hoc donum Dei est.

13. also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.

14. Didici quod omnia opera, quae fecit Deus, perseverent in perpetuum; non possumus eis quidquam addere nec auferre, quae fecit Deus, ut timeatur.

14. I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.

15. Quod iam fuit, ipsum est; et, quod futurum est, iam fuit; et Deus requirit, quod abiit.

15. That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.

16. Et adhuc vidi sub sole: in loco iudicii ibi impietas, et in loco iustitiae ibi iniquitas;

16. Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.

17. et dixi in corde meo: “Iustum et impium iudicabit Deus, quia tempus omni rei et omnibus occasio”.

17. I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.

18. Dixi in corde meo de filiis hominum, ut probaret eos Deus et ostenderet eos in semetipsis similes esse bestiis.

18. I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.

19. Quoniam sors filiorum hominis et iumentorum una est atque eadem: sicut moritur homo, sic et illa moriuntur; et idem spiritus omnibus: nihil habet homo iumento amplius, quia omnia vanitas.

19. For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.

20. Et omnia pergunt ad unum locum: de terra facta sunt omnia, et in terram omnia pariter revertuntur.

20. All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

21. Quis novit, si spiritus filiorum hominis ascendat sursum, et si spiritus iumentorum descendat deorsum in terram?

21. Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?

22. Et deprehendi nihil esse melius quam laetari hominem in opere suo; nam haec est pars illius. Quis enim eum adducet, ut post se futura cognoscat?

22. So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what will be after him?



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