Pred Prediger, Kapitel Kohelet, Kapitel 2
Der Weise hat zuletzt das gleiche Geschick wie der Thor; daher ist das Streben nach Besitz eitel, der Genuß aber eine Gabe Gottes.
Es giebt nichts besseres unter den Menschen, als daß einer esse und trinke und sich gütlich thue bei seiner Mühsal; aber auch das kommt, wie ich gesehen habe, aus Gottes Hand. Pred 3:12
Kazatel 2:24 v různých překladech
Němčina
Luther
Ist's nun nicht besser dem Menschen, daß er esse und trinke und seine Seele guter Dinge sei in seiner Arbeit? Aber solches sah ich auch, daß es von Gottes Hand kommt.
ELO (1905)
Es gibt nichts Besseres unter den Menschen, als daß man esse und trinke und seine Seele Gutes sehen lasse bei seiner Mühe. Ich habe gesehen, daß auch das von der Hand Gottes abhängt.
ELO (modernisiert)
Es gibt nichts Besseres unter den Menschen, als dass man esse und trinke und seine Seele Gutes sehen lasse bei seiner Mühe. Ich habe gesehen, dass auch das von der Hand Gottes abhängt.
NeÜ
Ein Mensch kann nichts Besseres tun, als zu essen und zu trinken und sich etwas Gutes zu gönnen von all seiner Mühe. Doch ich sah, dass auch das von Gott abhängig ist.
Čeština
B21
Je snad pro člověka něco lepšího než jíst a pít a při svém pachtění se potěšit? Vidím však, že i to pochází z ruky Boží.
BKR
Zdaliž není to chvalitebné při člověku, jísti a píti, a učiniti životu svému pohodlí z práce své? Ač i to také viděl jsem, že z ruky Boží pochází.
Angličtina
KJV (66 books)
There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
ASV
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
BSB
Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
DRA
Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.
FBV
So what's the best thing to do? Eat, drink, and enjoy your work, recognizing as I did that these things are given to us by God,
GNV
There is no profit to man: but that he eate, and drinke, and delight his soule with the profit of his labour: I saw also this, that it was of the hand of God.
JPS
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy pleasure for his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
LSV
There is nothing good in a man who eats, and has drunk, and has shown his soul good in his labor. This also I have seen that it [is] from the hand of God.
NASB
There is nothing better for a person than to eat and drink, and show himself some good in his trouble. This too I have seen, that it is from the hand of God. NASB 2020
NIV (US)
A person can do nothing better than to eat and drink and find satisfaction in their own toil. This too, I see, is from the hand of God,
NMV
[There is] nothing better for a man, [than] that he should eat and drink, and [that] he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it [was] from the hand of God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered].
OJB
There is nothing better for adam, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his nefesh find satisfaction in his amal. Also this I saw; even this was from the Yad HaElohim.
RV
There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.
T4T
So I decided that the best thing that we can do is to enjoy what we eat and drink, and also enjoy our work. And I realized that those things are what God intends for us.