7:23 我曾用智慧試驗這一切事;我說,要得智慧,智慧卻離我遠。
7:24 萬事之理,離我甚遠,而且最深,誰能測透呢?
7:25 我轉念,一心要知道,要考察,要尋求智慧和萬事的理由;又要知道邪惡為愚昧,愚昧為狂妄。
7:26 我得知有等婦人比死還苦:她的心是網羅,手是鎖鍊。凡蒙上帝喜悅的人必能躲避她;有罪的人卻被她纏住了。
7:27 傳道者說:「看哪,一千男子中,我找到一個正直人,但眾女子中,沒有找到一個。」我將這事一一比較,要尋求其理,我心仍要尋找,卻未曾找到。
7:28 【併於上節】
7:29 我所找到的只有一件,就是上帝造人原是正直,但他們尋出許多巧計。
7:24 萬事之理,離我甚遠,而且最深,誰能測透呢?
7:25 我轉念,一心要知道,要考察,要尋求智慧和萬事的理由;又要知道邪惡為愚昧,愚昧為狂妄。
7:26 我得知有等婦人比死還苦:她的心是網羅,手是鎖鍊。凡蒙上帝喜悅的人必能躲避她;有罪的人卻被她纏住了。
7:27 傳道者說:「看哪,一千男子中,我找到一個正直人,但眾女子中,沒有找到一個。」我將這事一一比較,要尋求其理,我心仍要尋找,卻未曾找到。
7:28 【併於上節】
7:29 我所找到的只有一件,就是上帝造人原是正直,但他們尋出許多巧計。
23 All this I tested by wisdom and I said,
“I am determined to be wise”—
but this was beyond me.
24 Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
who can discover it?
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.
but this was beyond me.
24 Whatever exists is far off and most profound—
who can discover it?
25 So I turned my mind to understand,
to investigate and to search out wisdom and the scheme of things
and to understand the stupidity of wickedness
and the madness of folly.
26 I find more bitter than death
the woman who is a snare,
whose heart is a trap
and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
but the sinner she will ensnare.
the woman who is a snare,
whose heart is a trap
and whose hands are chains.
The man who pleases God will escape her,
but the sinner she will ensnare.
27 “Look,” says the Teacher,[b] “this is what I have discovered:
“Adding one thing to another to
discover the scheme of things—
28 while I was still searching
but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman among them all.
29 This only have I found:
God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
28 while I was still searching
but not finding—
I found one upright man among a thousand,
but not one upright woman among them all.
29 This only have I found:
God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
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傳道者沒有歧視女性的意義,雖然在此他說到:「看哪,一千男子中,我找到一個正直人,但眾女子中,沒有找到一個」。但是他最後仍說:「上帝造人原是正直,但他們尋出許多巧計」。所以,不只是指女性沒有正直,而是普遍說到人都不正直!這也就是說到,人都是受到罪惡的扭曲。
也因為人都是受到罪惡的扭曲,所以人都是因邪惡而愚昧,因愚昧而狂妄!也因為如此,人無法得著智慧。甚至有心要得智慧的時候,智慧卻偏偏要遠離。於是要萬事之理時,反而是無法測透!
故此,人需要聖靈的作為,使我們得重生,讓我們願意接受耶穌基督為救主,聖靈才會內住在我們心中,此時聖靈才會將靈明賞賜給我們,正如保羅所說:「如經上所記:上帝為愛他的人所預備的是眼睛未曾看見,耳朵未曾聽見,人心也未曾想到的。只有上帝藉著聖靈向我們顯明了,因為聖靈參透萬事,就是上帝深奧的事也參透了。除了在人裡頭的靈,誰知道人的事?像這樣,除了上帝的靈,也沒有人知道上帝的事。我們所領受的,並不是世上的靈,乃是從上帝來的靈,叫我們能知道上帝開恩賜給我們的事。」(哥林多前書2:9-12)
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