So he ended their lives in failure, their years in terror.

因此，他叫他们的日子全归虚空，叫他们的年岁尽属惊恐。

因此，他使他们的日子全归虚空，叫他们的年岁尽属惊恐。

因此，他使他们的日子全归虚空，叫他们的年岁尽属惊恐。

所以上帝使他们虚度一生，让他们的岁月充满恐惧。

所以神使他们的日子在虚空中消逝，使他们的岁月在惊恐中完结。

所以他使他们的日子在虚空中消逝，使他们的岁月在突然惊恐中消亡。

因此，他叫他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。

因此，他使他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。

因此，他使他們的日子全歸虛空，叫他們的年歲盡屬驚恐。

所以上帝使他們虛度一生，讓他們的歲月充滿恐懼。

所以神使他們的日子在虛空中消逝，使他們的歲月在驚恐中完結。

因此上帝使他們的日子全消盡於虛幻中，使他們的年月也消逝於突臨的驚恐中。

所以他使他們的日子在虛空中消逝，使他們的歲月在突然驚恐中消亡。

故使其度日虛空、歷年驚恐兮、

上帝使之、終日艱難、窮年觳觫兮。

因此天主使之空虛度日、戰兢終身、

主乃降罰。紛紛夭折。肅殺之威。令人懍慄。

So he ended their days in futility and their years in terror.

So he brought their days to an end like a puff of smoke. He ended their years with terror.

So he made their days vanish like a breath, and their years in terror.

He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.

So He brought their days to an end in futility, And their years to an end in sudden terror.

Therefore their days He consumed in futility, And their years in fear.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

He made their days end in futility, their years in sudden disaster.

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

So he caused them to die unsatisfied and filled with terror.

Therefore he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

You will all drop dead in this wilderness! Because you complained against me, every one of you who is twenty years old or older and was included in the registration will die.

I, the Lord, have spoken! I will certainly do these things to every member of the community who has conspired against me. They will be destroyed here in this wilderness, and here they will die!”

Not one person on this list had been among those listed in the previous registration taken by Moses and Aaron in the wilderness of Sinai.For the Lord had said of them,“ They will all die in the wilderness.” Not one of them survived except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

But evil does not spring from the soil, and trouble does not sprout from the earth.People are born for trouble as readily as sparks fly up from a fire.

“ Thirty eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the Lord had vowed would happen.The Lord struck them down until they had all been eliminated from the community.“ When all the men of fighting age had died,

That’s the whole story. Here now is my final conclusion: Fear God and obey his commands, for this is everyone’s duty.God will judge us for everything we do, including every secret thing, whether good or bad.

“ Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher,“ completely meaningless.”

“ How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble!

I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race.I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless— like chasing the wind.

Then he said to the woman,“ I will sharpen the pain of your pregnancy, and in pain you will give birth. And you will desire to control your husband, but he will rule over you.”And to the man he said,“ Since you listened to your wife and ate from the tree whose fruit I commanded you not to eat, the ground is cursed because of you. All your life you will struggle to scratch a living from it.It will grow thorns and thistles for you, though you will eat of its grains.By the sweat of your brow will you have food to eat until you return to the ground from which you were made. For you were made from dust, and to dust you will return.”

We wither beneath your anger; we are overwhelmed by your fury.You spread out our sins before you— our secret sins— and you see them all.We live our lives beneath your wrath, ending our years with a groan.

“ Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher,“ completely meaningless!”