Ecclesiastes 4:4

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• American Standard Version: Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• 新标点和合本: 我又见人为一切的劳碌和各样灵巧的工作就被邻舍嫉妒。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
• 和合本2010（上帝版-简体）: 我见人因彼此嫉妒而有一切的劳碌和各样工作的成就，这也是虚空，也是捕风。
• 和合本2010（神版-简体）: 我见人因彼此嫉妒而有一切的劳碌和各样工作的成就，这也是虚空，也是捕风。
• 当代译本: 我又看见人的一切劳碌和成就原是出于争强好胜。这也是虚空，如同捕风。
• 圣经新译本: 我看见各样的劳碌和各样精巧的工作，都是出于人与人彼此的竞争。这也是虚空，也是捕风。
• 中文标准译本: 我也看到，一切的劳苦和各样工作的技能，都是出于人与邻人之间的嫉妒。这也是虚空，也是捕风！
• 新標點和合本: 我又見人為一切的勞碌和各樣靈巧的工作就被鄰舍嫉妒。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
• 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體）: 我見人因彼此嫉妒而有一切的勞碌和各樣工作的成就，這也是虛空，也是捕風。
• 和合本2010（神版-繁體）: 我見人因彼此嫉妒而有一切的勞碌和各樣工作的成就，這也是虛空，也是捕風。
• 當代譯本: 我又看見人的一切勞碌和成就原是出於爭強好勝。這也是虛空，如同捕風。
• 聖經新譯本: 我看見各樣的勞碌和各樣精巧的工作，都是出於人與人彼此的競爭。這也是虛空，也是捕風。
• 呂振中譯本: 我又看一切勞碌和各樣工作上的技巧都是人對鄰舍羨慕之表現：這也是虛空，也是捕風。
• 中文標準譯本: 我也看到，一切的勞苦和各樣工作的技能，都是出於人與鄰人之間的嫉妒。這也是虛空，也是捕風！
• 文理和合譯本: 我見人因勞力、及諸巧工、為鄰所嫉、斯亦虛空、乃為捕風、
• 文理委辦譯本: 我觀世人、勞而得功、同人媢嫉、此亦捕風捉影而已。
• 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經: 我觀世人勞碌經營、皆緣彼此相妒、此亦屬於虛、皆如捕風、
• New International Version: And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
• New International Reader's Version: I also saw that a person works hard and accomplishes a lot. But they do it only because they want what another person has. That doesn’t have any meaning either. It’s like chasing the wind.
• English Standard Version: Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• New Living Translation: Then I observed that most people are motivated to success because they envy their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless— like chasing the wind.
• Christian Standard Bible: I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• New American Standard Bible: I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a person and his neighbor. This too is futility and striving after wind.
• New King James Version: 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.
• Holman Christian Standard Bible: I saw that all labor and all skillful work is due to a man’s jealousy of his friend. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• King James Version: Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This[ is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
• New English Translation: Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless– like chasing the wind.
• World English Bible: Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

交叉引用

• Ecclesiastes 1:14: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Ecclesiastes 2:21: For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
• Ecclesiastes 6:11: Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
• 1 Samuel 18 8-1 Samuel 18 9: And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.
• Ecclesiastes 2:26: For to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that pleaseth God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Genesis 4:4-8: And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering:but unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?If thou doest well, shall it not be lifted up? and if thou doest not well, sin coucheth at the door: and unto thee shall be its desire; but do thou rule over it.And Cain told Abel his brother. And it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.
• Ecclesiastes 4:16: There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Ecclesiastes 6:9: Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• 1 Samuel 18 14-1 Samuel 18 16: And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Jehovah was with him.And when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he stood in awe of him.But all Israel and Judah loved David; for he went out and came in before them.
• Genesis 37:2-11: These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.And his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren; and they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.And he said unto them, Hear, I pray you, this dream which I have dreamed:for, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves came round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed yet a dream; and, behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars made obeisance to me.And he told it to his father, and to his brethren; and his father rebuked him, and said unto him, What is this dream that thou hast dreamed? Shall I and thy mother and thy brethren indeed come to bow down ourselves to thee to the earth?And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.
• 1 Samuel 18 29-1 Samuel 18 30: And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.Then the princes of the Philistines went forth: and it came to pass, as often as they went forth, that David behaved himself more wisely than all the servants of Saul; so that his name was much set by.
• Proverbs 27:4: Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?
• Matthew 27:18: For he knew that for envy they had delivered him up.
• James 4:5: Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?
• Acts 7:9: And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,