Everything Has Its Time ---《Hebrew Bible》
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Everything Has Its Time ---《Hebrew
Bible》
昨天是开学的第一节英语课，老师拿来了很不多的希伯来圣经中的节选和大家分享。她的用意想让大家感受这段文字风格和表达形式，可是偏偏这段文字的内容也一样吸引了我，所拿来贴一下，呵呵…
上帝使万事有定时
Everything Has Its Time
1天下万事都有定期，都有上帝特定的时间。
For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under
heaven:
2生有时，死有事；栽种有事，拔除有时；
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time
to pluck up what is planted;
3杀害有时，医治有时；拆毁有时，建造有时；
a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a
time to build up;
4哭泣有时，欢笑有时；哀恸有时，舞蹈有时；
a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to
dance;
5同房有时，分房有时；亲热有时，冷淡有时；
a time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6寻找有时，遗失有时；保存有时，舍弃有时；
a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to
throw away;
7撕裂有时，缝补有时；缄默有时，言谈有时；
a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a
time to speak;
8爱有时，恨有时；战争有时，和平有时。
a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for
peace.
9那么，我们一切的劳苦有什么用处呢？
(The God-Given Task)
What gain have the workers from their toil?
10我看出上帝使我们负荷沉重的担子。
I have seen the business that God has given to everyone to be busy
with.
11他为万事特定适当的时间；他使我们有永恒的意识，却不让我们完全明白他一切的作为。
He has made everything suitable for its time; moreover he has put a
sense of past and future into their minds, yet they cannot find out
what God has done from the beginning to the end.
12所以我想，人不如时常欢乐，一生享福。
I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and
enjoy themselves as long as they live;
13我们都应该吃喝，享受辛劳的成果。这是上帝的恩赐。
moreover, it is God's gift that all should eat and drink and take
pleasure in all their toil.
14我知道，上帝所做的一切永远长存；人无法对上帝的作为有所增减。上帝这样做，是要人敬畏他。
I know that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added
to it, nor anything taken from it; God has done this, so that all
should stand in awe before him.
15现在的事或将来可能发生的事，从前已经有过。上帝使同样的事重复出现。
That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already is;
and God seeks out what has gone by.
