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?
From whence are there among you wars and strifes? Is it not from the lusts which war in your members?
2 Idin nlip nimon ille na idumun ba, idin molsu ikuru ipizira imon ile na i wasa ise ba. Idin su nnun.
You desire, and have not; you kill and are emulous, yet it cometh not into your hands; you strive and make wars, and nothing 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 ask and receive not, because you ask wickedly, as that you may cherish your lusts.
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.
Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is enmity with Aloha? He, therefore, who willeth to be the friend of this world, hath become the enemy of Aloha.
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 vainly think that the scripture saith, that In emulation desireth the Spirit who dwelleth in us?
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 more excellent grace hath our Lord given unto us. Wherefore he saith, Aloha humbleth the proud, and to the humble he giveth grace.
7 Bara nani, nan ati mine kiti Kutellẹ, taan shakk nin nshaitan, a nan nya pit nan ghinu.
BE subject, therefore, unto Aloha; withstand Satana, 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.
and draw nigh unto Aloha, and he will be nigh you. Purify your hands, sinners, and sanctify your hearts, divided of soul.
9 Sun liburi lisirne a tiyom nin kuculu. Kpilliyan tisina mine ti tinana nayi, so ulanzun nmang mine lawa liburi lisirne.
Be humbled and sorrowful, and let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into anxiety.
10 Toltunon atimine nbun Ncikilari Ame ma ghantin minu.
Be humbled before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
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.
Speak not against one another, my brethren; for he who speaketh against his brother, or judgeth his brother, speaketh against the law, and judgeth the law. And if the law thou judgest, thou art not a doer of the law, but the judge of it.
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?
For one is the appointer of the law and the Judge, who can save and destroy. But thou, who art thou, who judgest thy neighbour?
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”.
But what shall we say of them who say, To-day or tomorrow we will go to this city, or that, and work there one year, and negotiate, and make gain?
14 Ghari yiru imon ille na ina se ninkwui, iyaghari ulai mine? Idi nafo ulonna3i na sas unuzu nin kubiri bat umala kiti.
and they know not what shall be on the morrow: for what is our life, but a vapour which for a little while is seen, and vanisheth and endeth?
15 Bara nani mbara iworo nengbe “asa cikilari inyinna tiba yitu nin lai tisu ilenge sa ileli.
For instead they should say, If the Lord will, and we live, we will do this or that.
16 Nene idin fo figiri nin zkpilizu mine, vat ulle ufo figire unanzanghari.
They glory in their pride. All glorying such as this is from the Evil.
17 Bara nani kitin nle na ayiru usu nimon icine amini nari usue, kitime kulapiyari.
And he who knoweth the good and doeth it not, sin is to him.
