训道篇:Chapter 5
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| 1你不要在天主前冒然开口，你的心也不要急于发言应许，因为天主在天上，你在地下，为此你说话应当简单。 | 1Don't be impulsive and hasty with words in the presence of God, for God is in heaven and you are on earth. For that reason let your words be few. |
| 2因为夜梦由于事务繁杂，乱语出于多言。 | 2For dreams come from over-anxiety and foolish talk from too many words. |
| 3你一向天主许愿，就不可拖延偿还，因为他不喜欢人怠慢；你许了愿，就应速还； | 3When you make a vow to God, waste no time in fulfilling it, for he takes no pleasure in fools. Do what you vowed. |
| 4不许愿好过许而不还。 | 4Better not to make a vow than to fail to fulfill it. |
| 5不要放任你的口，使你陷于罪过，免得你在使者前说是「错许了。」为何要天主因你这句话而发怒，破坏你手中的工作？ | 5Don't let your speech cause you to sin, and then tell God's minister it was a mistake. Why anger God by what you say and destroy the work of your hands? From much dreaming and many words comes emptiness. |
| 6多梦多虚幻，多言多糊涂；你要敬畏天主。 | 6So fear God. |
| 7你若在某省看见欺压穷人，违犯公道和正义的事，不必对此惊奇，因为高者之上还有更高者在上鉴察，而他们之上还有更高者。 | 7If you see the poor oppressed, right and justice denied in the province, do not be surprised, for over a high-placed official a higher one watches, and over both of these a still higher one watches. |
| 8国家全面的利益，在乎有一位关心农业的君王。 | 8The produce of the land benefits everyone and the king serves the land. |
| 9爱钱的，钱不能使他满足：爱财的，进益不能使他满足：这也是空虚。 | 9Whoever loves money will not be satisfied with money. Whoever loves wealth hasn't sufficient income. This is senseless. |
| 10钱财增多，消费的人也随之增多；财主除饱享眼福外，能有什么益处？ | 10When there is abundance of good things there is abundance of consumers. What profit is there for the owner except to look on? |
| 11工人不论吃多吃少，总睡得甘甜；饱食的富人，却难于安眠。 | 11Sweet the sleep of the laborer, whether he eats little or much. But the rich man who has had his fill cannot sleep. |
| 12我看见在太阳下有一件惨痛的事：财主积蓄财富，反而害了自己。 | 12There is a great evil that I found under the sun, the rich man who kept his wealth to his own harm. |
| 13生意一次失败，财产尽失：生了个儿子，手中一无所有。 | 13A mistaken investment and these riches are lost; a son is born but there is nothing to leave him. |
| 14他赤身出离母胎，也照样赤身归去；他劳力之所得，丝毫不能带去。 | 14Naked he came from his mother's womb, he returns as he came - naked. Nothing of the fruit of his toil is he able to take with him. |
| 15这也是一件惨痛的事：他怎样来，也怎样去；他操劳追风，究有什么益处； | 15That, too, is a grievous evil: As he came, so he goes. So what did he gain from chasing the wind? |
| 16况且他一生在黑暗中生活，遭受许多烦恼、疾病和悲愤的事。 | 16Why did he eat in darkness all through his life, amidst great sorrow, suffering and vexation? |
| 17我所认为幸福美满的事，是人在天主所赏的少数岁月内，有吃有喝，且享受他在太阳下一切劳碌所得的福乐，这原是他应得的一分。 | 17This is what I saw as most fitting for man: to eat, drink and be happy in all the work he does under the sun during the days God grants him; this is his reward. |
| 18的确，天主赏赐人财产和富裕，叫他能享用；能取得应有的一分，能享受劳碌所得的快乐，实是天主的恩赐。 | 18And when God gives a man riches and property with the possibility of enjoying them and being happy in his work, this is a gift from God. |
| 19那么，人就不甚顾虑人生岁月的短促，因为天主以喜乐充满了他的心。 | 19As long as God keeps him occupied in the gladness of his heart, he is not concerned about how long he will live. |
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