逐节对照
- New King James Version - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
- 新标点和合本 - 眼睛所看的比心里妄想的倒好。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 眼睛所看的比心里妄想的倒好。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 眼睛所看的比心里妄想的倒好。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
- 当代译本 - 满足于眼前所有的，胜过心中贪想的。这也是虚空，如同捕风。
- 圣经新译本 - 眼睛看见的，胜过心中想望的。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
- 中文标准译本 - 眼睛所见的好过心里妄想。这也是虚空，也是捕风！
- 现代标点和合本 - 眼睛所看的比心里妄想的倒好。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 眼睛所看的，比心里妄想的倒好。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
- New International Version - Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
- New International Reader's Version - Being satisfied with what you have is better than always wanting more. That doesn’t have any meaning either. It’s like chasing the wind.
- English Standard Version - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- New Living Translation - Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
- Christian Standard Bible - Better what the eyes see than wandering desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- New American Standard Bible - What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and striving after wind.
- Amplified Bible - What the eyes see [enjoying what is available] is better than [craving] what the soul desires. This too is futility and chasing after the wind.
- American Standard Version - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- King James Version - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
- New English Translation - It is better to be content with what the eyes can see than for one’s heart always to crave more. This continual longing is futile – like chasing the wind.
- World English Bible - Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
- 新標點和合本 - 眼睛所看的比心裏妄想的倒好。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 眼睛所看的比心裏妄想的倒好。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 眼睛所看的比心裏妄想的倒好。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
- 當代譯本 - 滿足於眼前所有的，勝過心中貪想的。這也是虛空，如同捕風。
- 聖經新譯本 - 眼睛看見的，勝過心中想望的。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
- 呂振中譯本 - 眼睛看到的比心裏轉來轉去 想 的好：這也是虛空，也是捕風。
- 中文標準譯本 - 眼睛所見的好過心裡妄想。這也是虛空，也是捕風！
- 現代標點和合本 - 眼睛所看的比心裡妄想的倒好。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
- 文理和合譯本 - 目之睹、勝於欲之縱、斯亦虛空、乃為捕風、○
- 文理委辦譯本 - 寧享現在之福、勿作出位之思、莫非捕風捉影。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 目睹勝於心戀、然皆屬於虛、皆如捕風、○
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Vale más lo visible que lo imaginario. Y también esto es absurdo; ¡es correr tras el viento!
- 현대인의 성경 - 눈으로 보는 것이 마음으로 생각하는 것보다 낫지만 이것도 역시 헛된 것이며 바람을 잡으려는 것과 같은 것이다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Лучше радоваться тому, что имеешь, чем желать того, что не имеешь. И это тоже суета, это – погоня за ветром.
- Восточный перевод - Лучше радоваться тому, что имеешь, чем желать того, что не имеешь. И это тоже пустое, это – погоня за ветром.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Лучше радоваться тому, что имеешь, чем желать того, что не имеешь. И это тоже пустое, это – погоня за ветром.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Лучше радоваться тому, что имеешь, чем желать того, что не имеешь. И это тоже пустое, это – погоня за ветром.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mieux vaut ce qu’on a dans la main que ce vers quoi se porte le désir. Cela aussi est dérisoire : autant courir après le vent.
- リビングバイブル - 手の中の一羽の鳥は、やぶの中の二羽より価値があります。あこがれているものを夢見ているだけであればむなしいことで、風を追いかけるようなものです。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Melhor é contentar-se com o que os olhos veem do que sonhar com o que se deseja. Isso também não faz sentido; é correr atrás do vento.
- Hoffnung für alle - Sei zufrieden mit dem, was du hast, und verlange nicht ständig nach mehr, denn das ist vergebliche Mühe – so als wolltest du den Wind einfangen.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Tận hưởng những gì đang có còn hơn mong muốn những điều không có. Mơ mộng hảo huyền là vô nghĩa—như chạy theo luồng gió.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - มีเท่าที่ตาเห็นก็ดีกว่าเที่ยวอยากได้ไปเรื่อย นี่ก็อนิจจัง วิ่งไล่ตามลม
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - การมีความสุขกับสิ่งที่เรามี ดีกว่าเพ้อฝันในสิ่งอื่นที่เราอยากได้ นี่ก็ไร้ค่า และไล่คว้าลม
交叉引用
- Proverbs 30:15 - The leech has two daughters— Give and Give! There are three things that are never satisfied, Four never say, “Enough!”:
- Proverbs 30:16 - The grave, The barren womb, The earth that is not satisfied with water— And the fire never says, “Enough!”
- Ecclesiastes 4:4 - Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
- Job 31:7 - If my step has turned from the way, Or my heart walked after my eyes, Or if any spot adheres to my hands,
- Jeremiah 2:20 - “For of old I have broken your yoke and burst your bonds; And you said, ‘I will not transgress,’ When on every high hill and under every green tree You lay down, playing the harlot.
- Ecclesiastes 6:2 - A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.
- Ecclesiastes 3:12 - I know that nothing is better for them than to rejoice, and to do good in their lives,
- Ecclesiastes 3:13 - and also that every man should eat and drink and enjoy the good of all his labor—it is the gift of God.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2 - “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”
- Ecclesiastes 2:22 - For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
- Ecclesiastes 2:23 - For all his days are sorrowful, and his work burdensome; even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 2:24 - Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 - Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, And let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth; Walk in the ways of your heart, And in the sight of your eyes; But know that for all these God will bring you into judgment.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11 - Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done And on the labor in which I had toiled; And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind. There was no profit under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 5:18 - Here is what I have seen: It is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; for it is his heritage.
- Ecclesiastes 1:14 - I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.