When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
你们求也得不著,是因为你们妄求,要浪费在你们的宴乐中。I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation .
17我没有坐在宴乐人的会中,也没有欢乐。我因你的感动(原文作手)独自静坐,因你使我满心愤恨。3 You ask and do not receive because you ask evilly that you may spend it on your pleasures.
雅四3你们求也无所得,是因为你们妄求,为要耗费在你们的宴乐中。I sat not in the assembly of them that make merry, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand; for thou hast filled me with indignation.
我没有坐在宴乐人的会中,也没有欢乐;我因你的感动(原文作手)独自静坐,因你使我满心愤恨。On the day of the festival of our king the princes become inflamed with wine, and he joins hands with the mockers.
在我们王宴乐的日子,首领因酒的烈性成病;王与亵慢人拉手。In the social life of the Tang Dynasty, banquet music performances occupied a mainstream position in all music performances.
唐代的社会生活中,宴乐是一种占主流地位的音乐活动方式。You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.
你们求也得不着,是因为你们妄求,要浪费在你们的宴乐中。There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry and high life---Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher.
通往幸福的最错误的路径莫过于名利、宴乐与奢华的生活---阿瑟.叔本华,德国哲学家。But the widow who lives for pleasure is dead even while she lives Give these commands as well so that they may be above reproach.
但那好宴乐的寡妇,正活着的时候也是死的,这些事你要嘱咐他们,叫他们无可指责。