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V ers. 20.— Nunquid non paucitas dierum meorum finietur brevi? 92. Vitae terminus, potissimum attendendus.—Cau- tum se ac sollicitum vivere ostendit, qui brevitatem praesentis vitae considerans, non ejus usum, sed ter- minum conspicit, ut ex fine colligat nihil esse quod transiens delectat. Hinc namque per Salomonem di- citur: Si annis multis vixerit homo, et in his omnibus laetatus fuerit, meminisse debet tenebrosi temporis et dierum multorum; qui cum venerint, vanitatis arguen- tur praeterita ( Eccle. xi, 8). Hinc rursum scriptum est: In omnibus operibus tuis memorare novissima tua, et in aetenum non peccabis ( Eccli. vii, 40).
第二十節。——「我的日子不是甚少麼？不久就要完結。」九十二。生命的終局尤當顧念。——那思想今生之短暫、不看其享用而看其終局，好從終局推知凡暫時之物雖使人歡愉卻算不得甚麼的人，就顯明自己過的是謹慎憂慮的生活。因為所羅門藉此說：「人若活多年，並在其中一直歡樂，就當記念黑暗的日子和許多的年日；那些日子一到，已過之事就必被證為虛空」（傳道書十一章八節）。又有這樣的話寫著：「凡你所行的，要記念你的結局，就永不犯罪」（便西拉智訓七章四十節）。
Verse 20. — Shall not the fewness of my days be ended shortly? 92. The end of life is chiefly to be regarded. — He shows himself to live cautiously and anxiously who, considering the brevity of the present life, looks not to its use but to its end, so that from the end he may gather that there is nothing which, though passing, delights. For hence it is said through Solomon: If a man live many years, and rejoice in them all, he ought to remember the time of darkness and the many days; which when they come, the things past shall be convicted of vanity (Ecclesiastes 11:8). Hence again it is written: In all thy works remember thy last end, and thou shalt never sin (Sirach 7:40).
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Igitur cum culpa animum tentat, mens necesse est ut brevitatem suae delectationis aspiciat, ne c ad vivacem mortem iniquitas rapiat, cum constet quod ad terminum ci- tius mortalis vita percurrat. Sed saepe oculus contem- plationis nostrae confunditur dum dolor noster flagel- lis crebrescentibus aggravatur. Libet praesentis vitae exsilium gemere, sed prae ipsa afflictione mens non valet damna suae caecitatis aestimare. Unde protinus subdit:
因此，當過犯試探心靈時，心思必須看清自己歡愉之短暫，免得罪孽把它奪去，帶入活著的死亡，既然眾所公認必死的生命更快速地奔向終局。但當我們的憂傷被日益增多的鞭打所加重時，我們默觀的眼目往往被攪亂。人樂意為今生流亡之境哀歎，但因那折磨本身，心靈不能估量自身盲目的損失。因此他隨即補充說：
Therefore, when fault tempts the soul, the mind must needs look upon the brevity of its delight, lest iniquity snatch it away to a living death, since it is agreed that mortal life runs the more swiftly to its end. But often the eye of our contemplation is confounded while our sorrow is aggravated by ever-increasing scourges. It is pleasing to groan over the exile of the present life, but because of the very affliction the mind cannot estimate the losses of its own blindness. Whence he straightway adds: