James 5
1 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
Pojdite torej, vi bogataši, jokajte in tulite zaradi svojih bed, ki bodo prišle nad vas.
2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
Vaša bogastva so pokvarjena in vaše obleke so požrte od moljev.
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.
Vaše zlato in srebro je postalo zarjavelo; in njuna rja bo priča zoper vas in bo razjedla vaše meso, kakor bi bila ogenj. Nakopičili ste skupaj zaklad za poslednje dni.
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.
Glejte, plačilo delavcev, ki so poželi vaša polja, ki ste si jih pridržali s sleparstvom, kriči. In kriki teh, ki so poželi, so vstopili v ušesa Gospoda nad vojskami.
5 You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
Na zemlji ste živeli v užitku in bili polteni; svoja srca ste redili kakor za dan zakola.
6 You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
Obsodili in ubili ste pravičnega; in se vam ne upira.
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.
Bodite torej potrpežljivi, bratje, do Gospodovega prihoda. Glejte, poljedelec pričakuje dragocen sad zemlje in ima za to veliko potrpežljivost, dokler ne prejme zgodnjega in poznega dežja.
8 You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
Bodite tudi vi potrpežljivi. Utrdite svoja srca, kajti Gospodov prihod se približuje.
9 Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
Ne godrnjajte drug proti drugemu, bratje, da ne bi bili obsojeni. Glejte, sodnik stoji pred vrati.
10 Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Moji bratje, za zgled prenašanja stiske in potrpežljivosti vzemite preroke, ki so govorili v Gospodovem imenu.
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.
Glejte, mi štejemo za srečne te, ki vztrajajo. Slišali ste o Jobovi potrpežljivosti in videli Gospodov konec; da je Gospod zelo sočuten in nežno usmiljen.
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.
Toda nad vsemi stvarmi, moji bratje, ne prisegajte, niti pri nebu, niti pri zemlji, niti s kako drugo prisego. Temveč vaš »da« naj bo »da« in vaš »ne« [naj bo] »ne«, da ne zapadete v obsodbo.
13 Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
Ali je kdo med vami v stiski? Naj moli. Ali je kdo vesel? Naj prepeva psalme.
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;
Je kdo med vami bolan? Naj pokliče starešine cerkve in naj nad njim molijo ter ga v Gospodovem imenu mazilijo z oljem.
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.
In molitev vere bo rešila bolnika in Gospod ga bo vzdignil; in če je storil grehe, mu bodo odpuščeni.
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.
Drug drugemu priznavajte svoje napake in molíte drug za drugega, da boste lahko ozdravljeni. Veliko koristi energična, goreča molitev pravičnega.
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.
Elija je bil človek, podvržen podobnim strastem, kakor smo mi in je iskreno molil, da ne bi deževalo. In na zemljo ni deževalo v obdobju treh let in šestih mesecev.
18 He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
In ponovno je molil in nebo je dalo dež in zemlja je obrodila svoj sad.
19 Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
Bratje, če kdo izmed vas zaide od resnice in ga nekdo spreobrne,
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.
naj ta ve, da kdor je grešnika spreobrnil od zmote njegove poti, bo rešil dušo pred smrtjo in zakril množico grehov.
