Yakubu 4
1 Nweri kabung nin diru yinnu nin nati ku nanya mine? na kudin fitizu nan nya mine unucu nlip nibinai ni nanzang na udin su likum nan nya mine ba, linuwa anan yinnu nin kutellẹ ba?
Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?
2 Idin nlip nimon ille na idumun ba, idin molsu ikuru ipizira imon ile na i wasa ise ba. Idin su nnun.
You continually crave and do not obtain; you are killing and coveting and cannot acquire; you are fighting and at war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 Isu kabung ku, vat nani na isebabura na itirino kutellẹ ba. Idin tiru a na i sare ba, bara idin ntiru imon inanzang, inan moluso libau nsu nibinai mine.
You continue to ask and do not receive, because you are asking with a wrong purpose, in order to spend it upon your pleasures.
4 Anung anam zina! akilaki, Na iyiru nwoni lidondong nin yih ulele nshinari nin kutellẹ ba? Bara nani ulle na ayinna asu lidondon nin yih a durso litime unan shina Kutellẹ.
You adulteresses, do you not know that the friendship of the world is enmity to God? Whoever, then, desires to be a friend of the world, makes himself and enemy of God.
5 Sa idin cissu uliru Kutellẹ naso lem na unaworo uruhu Kutellẹ na ina ti nan nyo bite ukulun nin lip liyarin na?
Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"
6 Nan nya nani Kutellẹ na nani ubolu me gbardang, bara na uliru Kutellẹ na woro, “Kutellẹ nari anan tikunang liti, ana niza ubelu me kiti nale na itoltuno uti mine”.
But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.
7 Bara nani, nan ati mine kiti Kutellẹ, taan shakk nin nshaitan, a nan nya pit nan ghinu.
So then ever be subject to God, Ever resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 Dan susut nin Kutellẹ, amac wang ma daksusul nan ghinu, kusun achare mine lau anung anan nalapi, wesen nibincu mine, anung anan nibinayi nibaba.
Draw near to God And he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, And purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Sun liburi lisirne a tiyom nin kuculu. Kpilliyan tisina mine ti tinana nayi, so ulanzun nmang mine lawa liburi lisirne.
Lament and mourn, and weep aloud! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, And your joy into gloom!
10 Toltunon atimine nbun Ncikilari Ame ma ghantin minu.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, And he will raise you up.
11 Na iwansu kubellum natimine ba, linuana, unit ulle na asu kubellum ngwana sa ushariya ngwana, adin su ushara nan nyan nshara Kutellẹ. Asa usu uduka ushara fe wang na una dortu nsharawere ba, fe nso sharan nin nari.
Do not be talking against each other, brothers. He who is talking against a brother and condemning his brothers is talking against the Law and condemning the Law. But if you are condemning the Law, you are not a doer of the Law, but a judge.
12 Unit urumari cas unan nizun duka nin shariyawe, ame Kutellẹ, ulle na amere wasa asu utucu nin molsu, fe ghari, unan su ndọ lissan fe ushara?
But One is your Lawgiver and Judge - he who is able to save and to destroy. But you, who are you, to be condemning your neighbor?
13 Lanza fe ulle na udin bellu, “Kitimone sa udun kwoi tiba du nanya kipin, ti duru likus kikans, ti di su kujauna tise uriba”.
Go to now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we shall journey to such a city and spend a year there, and trade and make money,"
14 Ghari yiru imon ille na ina se ninkwui, iyaghari ulai mine? Idi nafo ulonna3i na sas unuzu nin kubiri bat umala kiti.
when all the time you do not know what will happen on the morrow. For what is your life? You are but a mist, appearing for a brief time, and then vanishing.
15 Bara nani mbara iworo nengbe “asa cikilari inyinna tiba yitu nin lai tisu ilenge sa ileli.
You ought instead to say, "If the Lord wills it, we shall live and do this or that."
16 Nene idin fo figiri nin zkpilizu mine, vat ulle ufo figire unanzanghari.
But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.
17 Bara nani kitin nle na ayiru usu nimon icine amini nari usue, kitime kulapiyari.
So to him who knows how to do right and does not do it, to him it is sin.
