James 5
1 Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.
嗐！你們這些富足人哪，應當哭泣、號咷，因為將有苦難臨到你們身上。
2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
你們的財物壞了，衣服也被蟲子咬了。
3 Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.
你們的金銀都長了銹；那銹要證明你們的不是，又要吃你們的肉，如同火燒。你們在這末世只知積攢錢財。
4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
工人給你們收割莊稼，你們虧欠他們的工錢，這工錢有聲音呼叫，並且那收割之人的冤聲已經入了萬軍之主的耳了。
5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
你們在世上享美福，好宴樂，當宰殺的日子竟嬌養你們的心。
6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
你們定了義人的罪，把他殺害，他也不抵擋你們。
7 Go on waiting calmly, my brothers, till the coming of the Lord, like the farmer waiting for the good fruit of the earth till the early and late rains have come.
弟兄們哪，你們要忍耐，直到主來。看哪，農夫忍耐等候地裏寶貴的出產，直到得了秋雨春雨。
8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
你們也當忍耐，堅固你們的心，因為主來的日子近了。
9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
弟兄們，你們不要彼此埋怨，免得受審判。看哪，審判的主站在門前了。
10 Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.
弟兄們，你們要把那先前奉主名說話的眾先知當作能受苦能忍耐的榜樣。
11 We say that those men who have gone through pain are happy: you have the story of Job and the troubles through which he went and have seen that the Lord was full of pity and mercy in the end.
那先前忍耐的人，我們稱他們是有福的。你們聽見過約伯的忍耐，也知道主給他的結局，明顯主是滿心憐憫，大有慈悲。
12 But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.
我的弟兄們，最要緊的是不可起誓；不可指着天起誓，也不可指着地起誓，無論何誓都不可起。你們說話，是，就說是；不是，就說不是，免得你們落在審判之下。
13 Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.
你們中間有受苦的呢，他就該禱告；有喜樂的呢，他就該歌頌。
14 Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.
你們中間有病了的呢，他就該請教會的長老來；他們可以奉主的名用油抹他，為他禱告。
15 And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.
出於信心的祈禱要救那病人，主必叫他起來；他若犯了罪，也必蒙赦免。
16 So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.
所以你們要彼此認罪，互相代求，使你們可以得醫治。義人祈禱所發的力量是大有功效的。
17 Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.
以利亞與我們是一樣性情的人，他懇切禱告，求不要下雨，雨就三年零六個月不下在地上。
18 And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
他又禱告，天就降下雨來，地也生出土產。
19 My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,
我的弟兄們，你們中間若有失迷真道的，有人使他回轉，
20 Be certain that he through whom a sinner has been turned from the error of his way, keeps a soul from death and is the cause of forgiveness for sins without number.
這人該知道：叫一個罪人從迷路上轉回便是救一個靈魂不死，並且遮蓋許多的罪。
