James 5
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
聽け、富める者よ、なんぢらの上に來らんとする艱難のために泣きさけべ。
2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
汝らの財は朽ち、汝らの衣は蠧み、
3 Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
汝らの金 銀は錆びたり。この錆なんぢらに對ひて證をなし、かつ火のごとく汝らの肉を蝕はん。汝 等この末の世に在りてなほ財を蓄へたり。
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
視よ、汝 等がその畑を刈り入れたる勞動人に拂はざりし値は叫び、その刈りし者の呼聲は萬軍の主の耳に入れり。
5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
汝らは地にて奢り樂しみ、屠らるる日に在りて尚おのが心を飽かせり。
6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
汝らは正しき者を罪に定め、且これを殺せり、彼は汝らに抵抗することなし。
7 Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
兄弟よ、主の來り給ふまで耐へ忍べ。視よ、農夫は地の貴き實を、前と後との雨を得るまで耐へ忍びて待つなり。
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
汝らも耐へ忍べ、なんぢらの心を堅うせよ。主の來り給ふこと近づきたればなり。
9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
兄弟よ、互に怨言をいふな、恐らくは審かれん。視よ、審判 主、門の前に立ちたまふ。
10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
兄弟よ、主の名によりて語りし預言者たちを苦難と耐忍との模範とせよ。
11 Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
視よ、我らは忍ぶ者を幸福なりと思ふ。なんぢらヨブの忍耐を聞けり、主の彼に成し給ひし果を見たり、即ち主は慈悲ふかく、かつ憐憫あるものなり。
12 But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear—not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.
わが兄弟よ、何事よりも先づ誓ふな、或は天、あるひは地、あるひは其の他のものを指して誓ふな。只なんぢら然りは然り否は否とせよ、罪に定めらるる事なからん爲なり。
13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
汝 等のうち苦しむ者あるか、その人、祈せよ。喜ぶ者あるか、その人、讃美せよ。
14 Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
汝 等のうち病める者あるか、その人、教會の長老たちを招け。彼らは主の名により其の人に油をぬりて祈るべし。
15 and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
さらば信仰の祈は病める者を救はん、主かれを起し給はん、もし罪を犯しし事あらば赦されん。
16 Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
この故に互に罪を言ひ表し、かつ癒されんために相 互に祈れ、正しき人の祈ははたらきて大なる力あり。
17 Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
エリヤは我らと同じ情をもてる人なるに、雨 降らざることを切に祈りしかば、三年 六个月のあひだ地に雨 降らざりき。
18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
かくて再び祈りたれば、天 雨を降らし、地その果を生ぜり。
19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
わが兄弟よ、汝 等のうち眞理より迷ふ者あらんに、誰か之を引囘さば、
20 let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
その人は知れ、罪人をその迷へる道より引囘す者は、かれの靈魂を死より救ひ、多くの罪を掩ふことを。
