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.
Dejte torej, bogatini, jokajte javkajoč o bedah, katere vam pridejo;
2 Your wealth is unclean and insects have made holes in your clothing.
Bogastvo vaše je iztrohnelo, in oblačila vaša so moli snedli;
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.
Zlato vaše in srebro je zrujavelo, in njih ruja bode v pričanje vam, in žrla meso vaše kakor ogenj; zaklade ste zbirali v zadnjih dnevih.
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.
Glej, plačilo delalcev, kateri so kosili polja vaša, ki ste ga jim utrgali, kriči; in vpitje ženjic prišlo je do ušes Gospoda Sabaot.
5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction.
V požréšnosti ste na zemlji živeli in razkošnosti; srca svoja ste redili kakor o dnevi klanja.
6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
Obsodili, ubili ste pravičnega; ne ustavlja se vam!
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.
Bodite torej potrpežljivi, bratje, do prihoda Gospodovega. Glej, ratar pričakuje drazega sadú zemljé, potrpežljiv zanj, da dobi dež zgodnji in kasni;
8 Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.
Bodite potrpežljivi tudi vi, pokrepčajte srca svoja, ker prihod Gospodov se je približal.
9 Say no hard things against one another, brothers, so that you will not be judged; see, the judge is waiting at the doors.
Ne zdihujte drug zoper druzega, bratje, da ne bodete obsojeni; glej, sodnik stoji pred vrati!
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.
Za zgled vzemite trpljenja in potrpežljivosti, bratje, preroke, kateri so govorili v imenu Gospodovem.
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.
Glej, blagrujemo stanovitne; o stanovitnosti Jobovi ste čuli, in konec Gospodov ste videli; ker usmiljen je Gospod in milosrčen.
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.
Pred vsem pa, bratje moji, ne prisezajte; ne pri nebu, ne pri zemlji, ne kake druge prisege; bodi pa vaše; dá, dá, in ne, ne! da ne padete pod sodbo.
13 Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.
Trpi li kdo med vami? moli naj; je li kdo dobre volje? prepeva naj.
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.
Je-li kdo bolan med vami? pokliče naj k sebi starejšine občine, in molijo naj nad njim, ter pomazilijo ga z oljem v imenu Gospodovem;
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.
In molitev vere bode pomagala bolniku, in ozdravil ga bode Gospod; in ako je storil grehe, odpustilo se mu bode.
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.
Izpovedujte si med seboj grehe, in molite zase med seboj, da bodete ozdravljeni! Mnogo more krepka molitev pravičnega.
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.
Elija je bil človek enakočuten z nami in v molitvi je molil, naj ne dežuje, in deževalo ni na zemlji tri leta in mesece tri;
18 And he made another prayer, and the heaven sent down rain and the earth gave her fruit.
In zopet je molil, in nebo je dalo dežja, in zemlja je rodila sad svoj.
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,
Bratje, ako kdo med vami zabrede od resnice in ga kdo nazaj pripelje,
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.
Vedi, da kdor nazaj pripelje grešnika s krive poti, rešil bode dušo njegovo smrti, in pokril grehov obilost.
