Ecclesiastes 12:5

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• New International Version: when people are afraid of heights and of dangers in the streets; when the almond tree blossoms and the grasshopper drags itself along and desire no longer is stirred. Then people go to their eternal home and mourners go about the streets.
• 新标点和合本: 人怕高处，路上有惊慌，杏树开花，蚱蜢成为重担，人所愿的也都废掉；因为人归他永远的家，吊丧的在街上往来。
• 和合本2010（上帝版-简体）: 人怕高处，路上有惊慌；杏树开花，蚱蜢成为重担，欲望不再挑起；因为人归他永远的家，吊丧的在街上往来。
• 和合本2010（神版-简体）: 人怕高处，路上有惊慌；杏树开花，蚱蜢成为重担，欲望不再挑起；因为人归他永远的家，吊丧的在街上往来。
• 当代译本: 惧怕高处，走路战战兢兢；头发白如银杏，精力枯竭，欲望荡然无存；人都走向永远的归宿，吊丧的人往来于街上；
• 圣经新译本: 人怕高处，怕路上有惊吓。杏树开花，蚱蜢蹒跚而行，催情果失效。因为人归他永远的家，哭丧的在街上游行。
• 中文标准译本: 甚至人害怕高处，害怕道路上的危险；杏树开花，蚱蜢蹒跚，人的性欲衰退；因为人归向自己永远的家，哀哭的人在街道上绕行。
• 新標點和合本: 人怕高處，路上有驚慌，杏樹開花，蚱蜢成為重擔，人所願的也都廢掉；因為人歸他永遠的家，弔喪的在街上往來。
• 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體）: 人怕高處，路上有驚慌；杏樹開花，蚱蜢成為重擔，慾望不再挑起；因為人歸他永遠的家，弔喪的在街上往來。
• 和合本2010（神版-繁體）: 人怕高處，路上有驚慌；杏樹開花，蚱蜢成為重擔，慾望不再挑起；因為人歸他永遠的家，弔喪的在街上往來。
• 當代譯本: 懼怕高處，走路戰戰兢兢；頭髮白如銀杏，精力枯竭，慾望蕩然無存；人都走向永遠的歸宿，弔喪的人往來於街上；
• 聖經新譯本: 人怕高處，怕路上有驚嚇。杏樹開花，蚱蜢蹣跚而行，催情果失效。因為人歸他永遠的家，哭喪的在街上遊行。
• 呂振中譯本: 人都怕爬高，怕路上有驚慌；杏兒他拒絕；跨鳳是重擔；壯陽藥也無效；因為人快要到他永遠的家去，職業號咷者都在街上四圍等着；
• 中文標準譯本: 甚至人害怕高處，害怕道路上的危險；杏樹開花，蚱蜢蹣跚，人的性慾衰退；因為人歸向自己永遠的家，哀哭的人在街道上繞行。
• 文理和合譯本: 登高則恐懼、行路則悚惶、杏樹放葩、蝗蟲體重、酸豆失其補力、人歸永居之所、弔者往來於衢、
• 文理委辦譯本: 不敢登高、行於途中亦多畏葸、以杏核為可厭、以蟿蟲為重物、生平嗜好、百無一存、人歸窀穸、哀者行於衢。
• 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經: 畏登高處、行於途亦多驚懼、以杏核為可厭、以蝗蟲為重物、口腹之欲悉廢、將歸永居之所、不久哀者隨行於衢、
• New International Reader's Version: Remember your Creator before you become afraid of places that are too high. You will also be terrified because of danger in the streets. Remember your Creator before the almond trees have buds on them. That’s when grasshoppers will drag themselves along. Old people will lose their desire. That’s when people will go to their dark homes in the grave. And those who mourn for the dead will walk around in the streets.
• English Standard Version: they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—
• New Living Translation: Remember him before you become fearful of falling and worry about danger in the streets; before your hair turns white like an almond tree in bloom, and you drag along without energy like a dying grasshopper, and the caperberry no longer inspires sexual desire. Remember him before you near the grave, your everlasting home, when the mourners will weep at your funeral.
• Christian Standard Bible: Also, they are afraid of heights and dangers on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry has no effect; for the mere mortal is headed to his eternal home, and mourners will walk around in the street
• New American Standard Bible: Furthermore, people are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home while the mourners move around in the street.
• New King James Version: Also they are afraid of height, And of terrors in the way; When the almond tree blossoms, The grasshopper is a burden, And desire fails. For man goes to his eternal home, And the mourners go about the streets.
• American Standard Version: yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond- tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• Holman Christian Standard Bible: Also, they are afraid of heights and dangers on the road; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry has no effect; for man is headed to his eternal home, and mourners will walk around in the street
• King James Version: Also[ when] they shall be afraid of[ that which is] high, and fears[ shall be] in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets:
• New English Translation: and they are afraid of heights and the dangers in the street; the almond blossoms grow white, and the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caper berry shrivels up– because man goes to his eternal home, and the mourners go about in the streets–
• World English Bible: yes, they shall be afraid of heights, and terrors will be on the way; and the almond tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goes to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

交叉引用

• Job 17:13: If the only home I hope for is the grave, if I spread out my bed in the realm of darkness,
• Job 30:23: I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
• Jeremiah 9:17-20: This is what the Lord Almighty says:“ Consider now! Call for the wailing women to come; send for the most skillful of them.Let them come quickly and wail over us till our eyes overflow with tears and water streams from our eyelids.The sound of wailing is heard from Zion:‘ How ruined we are! How great is our shame! We must leave our land because our houses are in ruins.’”Now, you women, hear the word of the Lord; open your ears to the words of his mouth. Teach your daughters how to wail; teach one another a lament.
• Proverbs 16:31: Gray hair is a crown of splendor; it is attained in the way of righteousness.
• Job 15:10: The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men even older than your father.
• Genesis 50:3-10: taking a full forty days, for that was the time required for embalming. And the Egyptians mourned for him seventy days.When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court,“ If I have found favor in your eyes, speak to Pharaoh for me. Tell him,‘ My father made me swear an oath and said,“ I am about to die; bury me in the tomb I dug for myself in the land of Canaan.” Now let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”Pharaoh said,“ Go up and bury your father, as he made you swear to do.”So Joseph went up to bury his father. All Pharaoh’s officials accompanied him— the dignitaries of his court and all the dignitaries of Egypt—besides all the members of Joseph’s household and his brothers and those belonging to his father’s household. Only their children and their flocks and herds were left in Goshen.Chariots and horsemen also went up with him. It was a very large company.When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.
• Ecclesiastes 9:10: Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might, for in the realm of the dead, where you are going, there is neither working nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom.
• Jeremiah 1:11: The word of the Lord came to me:“ What do you see, Jeremiah?”“ I see the branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
• Psalms 49:10-14: For all can see that the wise die, that the foolish and the senseless also perish, leaving their wealth to others.Their tombs will remain their houses forever, their dwellings for endless generations, though they had named lands after themselves.People, despite their wealth, do not endure; they are like the beasts that perish.This is the fate of those who trust in themselves, and of their followers, who approve their sayings.They are like sheep and are destined to die; death will be their shepherd( but the upright will prevail over them in the morning). Their forms will decay in the grave, far from their princely mansions.
• Genesis 44:29: If you take this one from me too and harm comes to him, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in misery.’
• Leviticus 19:32: “‘ Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the Lord.
• Psalms 71:18: Even when I am old and gray, do not forsake me, my God, till I declare your power to the next generation, your mighty acts to all who are to come.
• Isaiah 46:4: Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
• Mark 5:38-39: When they came to the home of the synagogue leader, Jesus saw a commotion, with people crying and wailing loudly.He went in and said to them,“ Why all this commotion and wailing? The child is not dead but asleep.”
• Hebrews 9:27: Just as people are destined to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Genesis 42:38: But Jacob said,“ My son will not go down there with you; his brother is dead and he is the only one left. If harm comes to him on the journey you are taking, you will bring my gray head down to the grave in sorrow.”
• Proverbs 20:29: The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.
• Genesis 44:31: sees that the boy isn’t there, he will die. Your servants will bring the gray head of our father down to the grave in sorrow.