James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
汝 等のうちの戰爭は何處よりか、分爭は何處よりか、汝らの肢體のうちに戰ふ慾より來るにあらずや。
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
汝ら貪れども得ず、殺すことをなし、妬むことを爲れども得ること能はず、汝らは爭ひまた戰す。汝らの得ざるは求めざるに因りてなり。
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
汝ら求めてなほ受けざるは慾のために費さんとて妄に求むるが故なり。
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
姦淫をおこなふ者よ、世の友となるは、神に敵するなるを知らぬか、誰にても世の友とならんと欲する者は、己を神の敵とするなり。
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
聖書に『神は我らの衷に住ませ給ひし靈を、妬むほどに慕ひたまふ』と云へるを虚しきことと汝ら思ふか。
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
神は更に大なる恩惠を賜ふ。されば言ふ『神は高ぶる者を拒ぎ、へりくだる者に恩惠を與へ給ふ』と。
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
この故に汝ら神に服へ、惡魔に立ち向へ、さらば彼なんぢらを逃げ去らん。
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
神に近づけ、さらば神なんぢらに近づき給はん。罪人よ、手を淨めよ、二心の者よ、心を潔よくせよ。
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
なんぢら惱め、悲しめ、泣け、なんぢらの笑を悲歎に、なんぢらの歡喜を憂に易へよ。
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
主の前に己を卑うせよ、然らば主なんぢらを高うし給はん。
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
兄弟よ、互に謗るな。兄弟を謗る者、兄弟を審く者は、これ律法を誹り、律法を審くなり。汝もし律法を審かば、律法をおこなふ者にあらずして審判 人なり。
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
立法者また審判者は唯 一人にして、救ふことをも滅ぼすことをも爲し得るなり。なんぢ誰なれば隣を審くか。
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
聽け『われら今日もしくは明日それがしの町に往きて、一年の間かしこに留り、賣買して利を得ん』と言ふ者よ、
14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
汝らは明日のことを知らず、汝らの生命は何ぞ、暫く現れて遂に消ゆる霧なり。
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
汝 等その言ふところに易へて『主の御意ならば、我ら活きて此のこと、或は彼のことを爲さん』と言ふべきなり。
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
されど今なんぢらは高ぶりて誇る、斯くのごとき誇はみな惡しきなり。
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
人 善を行ふことを知りて、之を行はぬは罪なり。
