Jacob 4

1 Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

Se se dirang dikomano le dintwa mo gare ga lona ke eng? A ga se ka ntlha ya dikeletso tse di bosula tse di lwang mo ditokololong tsa lona.

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.

Lo batla se lo senang naso, jalo lo a bolaya go nna naso. Lo eletsa se ba bangwe ba nang naso, mme ga lo kgone go nna naso, jalo lo simolola ntwa go se tsaya mo go bone. Mme le fa go ntse jalo lebaka la gore lo seka lwa nna le se lo se batlang ke ka ntlha ya gore ga lo se kope mo Modimong.

3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

Mme le fa lo kopa ga lo se fiwe gonne maikaelelo otlhe a lona ga a a siama, lo batla fela se se tlaa lo nayang boitumelo.

4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

Lo tshwana le mosadi yo o nyetsweng yo o sa ikanyegeng yo o ratang baba ba monna wa gagwe. A ga lo lemoge gore go nna botsalano le baba ba Modimo, ebong dithato tse di bosula tsa lefatshe leno, go lo dira baba ba Modimo? Ke bua gape ka re fa maikaelelo a lona e le go itumela mo dithatong tse di bosula tsa lefatshe leno, le le sa bolokwang, ga lo kake gape lwa nna ditsala tsa Modimo.

5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Kgotsa lo akanya gore lokwalo lo raya eng fa lo re Mowa O O Boitshepo, o Modimo o o agisitseng mo go rona, o re disitse ka lefufa le le bonolo.

6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Mme o re naya nonofo ya go tlhabana le dikeletso tsotlhe tse di bosula tse di ntseng jaana. Jaaka Lokwalo lo re, Modimo o naya ba ba ingotlang nonofo, mme o kgatlhanong le ba ba ikgodisang le ba ba mabela.

7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Ke gone ineeleng mo Modimong ka boingotlo. Tlhabanang le diabolo mme o tlaa lo tshaba.

8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Mme fa lo atamela mo Modimong, le One o tlaa lo atamela. Tlhapang diatla tsa lona, baleofi ke lona lo bo lo letle dipelo tsa lona di tlale ka Modimo fela go di ntlafatsa le gore di ikanyege mo go One.

9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

Hutsafalang lo lele ka ntlha ya dilo tse di sa siamang tse lo di dirileng. A go nne boikotlhao le bohutsana jwa boammaaruri. A go nne bohutsana mo boemong jwa setshego, le go sa itumeleng mo boemong jwa boitumelo.

10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

Ke gone e tlaa reng fa lo ikutlwa lo se ba sepe fa pele ga Morena, o tlaa lo tsholeletsa kwa godimo a lo kgothatsa a bo a lo thusa.

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.

Se tshwaaneng diphoso lwa ba lwa buana bosula bakaulengwe ba ba rategang. Fa lo dira jalo, lo tlaa bo lo tlhabana le molao wa Modimo o o reng lo ratane, lo o supa o sa siama. Mme tiro ya lona ga se go akanya gore a molao o o siame kgotsa ga o a siama, fa e se go o obamela fela.

12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?

Yo o dirileng molao ke ene fela a ka atlholang sentle mo gare ga rona. Ke ene fela o ka atlholang go re boloka kgotsa go re nyeletsa. Jalo lo na le tshwanelo efe go sekisa kgotsa go bona ba bangwe diphoso?

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.”

Bonang, lona batho ba lo reng, “Gompieno kgotsa ka moso re tlaa ya kwa motsing wa bolebe, re nna teng koo ngwaga, mme re simolole teng madirelo a papadi.”

14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.

Lo itse jang se se tlaa lo diragalelang ka moso? Gonne boleele jwa matshelo a lona ga bo tlhomamisege fela jaaka mouwane wa mo mosong, o bonala jaanong jaana; mme e re ka lobakanyana o bo o nyeletse.

15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”

Se lo tshwanetseng go se bua ke se, “Fa Morena a rata, re tlaa tshela re bo re dira se kgotsa sele.”

16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

E seng jalo lo tlaa bo lo ikgantsha ka maano a e leng a lona, mme go itshepa mo go ntseng jaana ga go itumedise Modimo.

17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

Gakologelwang gape gore, go itse se se molemo se se tshwanetseng go dirwa, mme se bo se sa dirwe, ke boleo.