论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？

论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？

论到吃用、享福，谁能胜过我呢？

离了上帝，谁还能吃喝享受呢？

离开了他（按《马索拉文本》“离开了他”作“除了我”；现参照《七十士译本》等古译本翻译），谁能有吃的呢？谁能享乐呢？

因为离了他，谁能吃喝，谁能享受呢？

論到吃用、享福，誰能勝過我呢？

論到吃用、享福，誰能勝過我呢？

論到吃用、享福，誰能勝過我呢？

離了上帝，誰還能吃喝享受呢？

離開了他（按《馬索拉文本》“離開了他”作“除了我”；現參照《七十士譯本》等古譯本翻譯），誰能有吃的呢？誰能享樂呢？

因為除非由他、誰能喫食，誰能享樂呢？

因為離了他，誰能吃喝，誰能享受呢？

論食與享、孰能勝於我乎、

論所食所享、孰能勝我、又作若非天主所許孰能食孰能享

for without him, who can eat or find enjoyment?

Without his help, who can eat or find pleasure?

for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?

For who can eat or enjoy anything apart from him?

because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from him?

For who can eat and who can have enjoyment without Him?

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

because who can eat and who can enjoy life apart from Him?

For who can eat, or who else can hasten[ hereunto], more than I?

For no one can eat and drink or experience joy apart from him.

For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

I said to myself,“ Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good.” But that also proved to be meaningless.“ Laughter,” I said,“ is madness. And what does pleasure accomplish?”I tried cheering myself with wine, and embracing folly— my mind still guiding me with wisdom. I wanted to see what was good for people to do under the heavens during the few days of their lives.I undertook great projects: I built houses for myself and planted vineyards.I made gardens and parks and planted all kinds of fruit trees in them.I made reservoirs to water groves of flourishing trees.I bought male and female slaves and had other slaves who were born in my house. I also owned more herds and flocks than anyone in Jerusalem before me.I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired male and female singers, and a harem as well— the delights of a man’s heart.I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. In all this my wisdom stayed with me.I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done? (niv)

And Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These countries brought tribute and were Solomon’s subjects all his life.Solomon’s daily provisions were thirty cors of the finest flour and sixty cors of meal,ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl.For he ruled over all the kingdoms west of the Euphrates River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, and had peace on all sides. (niv)