4 너 다니엘아, 이 말씀을 비밀에 붙여 마지막 그때가 오기까지 이 책을 봉해두어라. 많은 사람들이 읽고 깨쳐 잘알게 되는 날이 올것이다. 그러나 갈팡질팡하는 사람도 많을것이다.≫
Ecclesiastes 1
1 다윗의 아들로서 예루살렘의 왕이였던 설교자의 말이다.2 헛되고 헛되다. 설교자는 말한다. 헛되고 헛되다. 세상만사 헛되다.3 사람이 하늘아래서 아무리 수고한들 보람있으랴.4 한세대가 가면 또 한세대가 오지만 이 땅은 영원히 그대로이다.5 떳다 지는 해는 다시 떳던곳으로 숨가삐 가고6 남쪽으로 불어갔다 북쪽으로 돌아오는 바람은 돌고돌아 제자리로 돌아온다.7 모든 강이 바다로 흘러드는데 바다는 넘치는 일이 없구나. 강물은 떠났던곳으로 돌아가서 다시 흘러내리는것을8 세상만사 속절없어 무엇이라 말할 길 없구나. 아무리 보아도 보고싶은대로 보는수가 없고 아무리 들어도 듣고싶은대로 듣는수가 없다.9 지금 있는것은 언젠가 있었던것이요 지금 생긴 일은 언젠가 있었던 일이라. 하늘아래 새것이 있을리 없다.10 ≪보아라. 여기 새로운것이 있구나.≫ 하더라도 믿지 말라. 그런 일은 우리가 나기 오래전에 이미 있었던 일이다.11 지나간 나날이 기억에서 사라지듯 오는 세월도 기억에서 사라지고말것을.12 나 설교자는 예루살렘에서 이스라엘의 왕으로 있으며13 하늘아래 벌어지는 모든 일을 알아보아 지혜를 얻으려고 무척 애를 써보았지만 하나님께서는 사람에게 괴로운 일을 주시여 고생이나 시킨다는 것을 알기에 이르렀다.14 하늘아래 벌어지는 일을 살펴보니 모든 일은 바람을 잡듯 헛된 일이였다.15 구부러진것을 펼수가 없고 없는것을 셀수야 없지 않는가.16 ≪나보다 먼저 예루살렘에서 왕노릇한 어른치고 나만큼 지혜를 깊이 깨달은 사람이 없다.≫ 나는 이렇게 자신을 가지고17 어떻게 사는것이 지혜로운 일인지 어떻게 사는것이 어리석고 얼빠진 일인지 알아보려고 무척 애를 써보았지만 그것 또한 바람을 잡는것같은 일이였다.18 어차피 지혜가 많으면 괴로운 일도 많고 아는것이 많으면 걱정도 많아지는 법이다.
Genesis 9
1 And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.2 The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered.3 Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything.4 But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.5 And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.6 “Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed, for God made man in his own image.7 And you, be fruitful and multiply, teem on the earth and multiply in it.”8 Then God said to Noah and to his sons with him,9 “Behold, I establish my covenant with you and your offspring after you,10 and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every beast of the earth with you, as many as came out of the ark; it is for every beast of the earth.11 I establish my covenant with you, that never again shall all flesh be cut off by the waters of the flood, and never again shall there be a flood to destroy the earth.”12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.14 When I bring clouds over the earth and the bow is seen in the clouds,15 I will remember my covenant that is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh. And the waters shall never again become a flood to destroy all flesh.16 When the bow is in the clouds, I will see it and remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth.”17 God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between me and all flesh that is on the earth.”18 The sons of Noah who went forth from the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth. (Ham was the father of Canaan.)19 These three were the sons of Noah, and from these the people of the whole earth were dispersed.20 Noah began to be a man of the soil, and he planted a vineyard.21 He drank of the wine and became drunk and lay uncovered in his tent.22 And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father and told his two brothers outside.23 Then Shem and Japheth took a garment, laid it on both their shoulders, and walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father. Their faces were turned backward, and they did not see their father's nakedness.24 When Noah awoke from his wine and knew what his youngest son had done to him,25 he said, “Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”26 He also said, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem; and let Canaan be his servant.27 May God enlarge Japheth, and let him dwell in the tents of Shem, and let Canaan be his servant.”28 After the flood Noah lived 350 years.29 All the days of Noah were 950 years, and he died.
Genesis 9
12 And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:13 I have set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be a sign of the covenant between me and the earth.
Isaiah 40
12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?
Psalm 111
2 Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.
