James 5
1 Listen to me, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming upon you!
Pojdite torej, vi bogataši, jokajte in tulite zaradi svojih bed, ki bodo prišle nad vas.
2 Your riches have wasted away, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
Vaša bogastva so pokvarjena in vaše obleke so požrte od moljev.
3 Your gold and silver are rusted; and the rust on them will be evidence against you, and will eat into your flesh. It was fire, so to speak, that you stored up for yourselves in these last days.
Vaše zlato in srebro je postalo zarjavelo; in njuna rja bo priča zoper vas in bo razjedla vaše meso, kakor bi bila ogenj. Nakopičili ste skupaj zaklad za poslednje dni.
4 Listen! The wages you have held back from the laborers who mowed your fields are crying out against you, and the outcries of your harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts!
Glejte, plačilo delavcev, ki so poželi vaša polja, ki ste si jih pridržali s sleparstvom, kriči. In kriki teh, ki so poželi, so vstopili v ušesa Gospoda nad vojskami.
5 You have lived on earth a life of extravagance and luxury; you have indulged your fancies in a time of bloodshed.
Na zemlji ste živeli v užitku in bili polteni; svoja srca ste redili kakor za dan zakola.
6 You have condemned, you have murdered, the righteous one! Must not God be opposed to you?
Obsodili in ubili ste pravičnega; in se vam ne upira.
7 Be patient, then, friends, until the coming of the Lord. Even the farmer has to wait for the precious fruit of the earth, watching over it patiently, until it has had the spring and summer rains.
Bodite torej potrpežljivi, bratje, do Gospodovega prihoda. Glejte, poljedelec pričakuje dragocen sad zemlje in ima za to veliko potrpežljivost, dokler ne prejme zgodnjega in poznega dežja.
8 And you must be patient also, and not be discouraged; for the Lord’s coming is near.
Bodite tudi vi potrpežljivi. Utrdite svoja srca, kajti Gospodov prihod se približuje.
9 Do not make complaints against one another, friends, or judgment will be passed on you. The judge is already standing at the door!
Ne godrnjajte drug proti drugemu, bratje, da ne bi bili obsojeni. Glejte, sodnik stoji pred vrati.
10 Friends, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Moji bratje, za zgled prenašanja stiske in potrpežljivosti vzemite preroke, ki so govorili v Gospodovem imenu.
11 We count those who displayed such endurance blessed! You have heard, too, of Job’s endurance, and have seen what the Lord’s purpose was, for ‘the Lord is full of pity and compassion.’
Glejte, mi štejemo za srečne te, ki vztrajajo. Slišali ste o Jobovi potrpežljivosti in videli Gospodov konec; da je Gospod zelo sočuten in nežno usmiljen.
12 Above all things, my friends, never take an oath, either by heaven, or by earth, or by anything else. Let your ‘Yes’ suffice for yes, and ‘No’ for no, so that you may escape condemnation.
Toda nad vsemi stvarmi, moji bratje, ne prisegajte, niti pri nebu, niti pri zemlji, niti s kako drugo prisego. Temveč vaš »da« naj bo »da« in vaš »ne« [naj bo] »ne«, da ne zapadete v obsodbo.
13 If anyone of you is in trouble, they should pray; if anyone is happy, they should sing hymns.
Ali je kdo med vami v stiski? Naj moli. Ali je kdo vesel? Naj prepeva psalme.
14 If anyone of you is ill, they should send for the church elders, and let them pray over them, anointing them with oil in the name of the Lord.
Je kdo med vami bolan? Naj pokliče starešine cerkve in naj nad njim molijo ter ga v Gospodovem imenu mazilijo z oljem.
15 The prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick, and the Lord will raise them from their bed; and if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven.
In molitev vere bo rešila bolnika in Gospod ga bo vzdignil; in če je storil grehe, mu bodo odpuščeni.
16 Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good person’s fervent prayer.
Drug drugemu priznavajte svoje napake in molíte drug za drugega, da boste lahko ozdravljeni. Veliko koristi energična, goreča molitev pravičnega.
17 Elijah was only human like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell on the land for three and a half years.
Elija je bil človek, podvržen podobnim strastem, kakor smo mi in je iskreno molil, da ne bi deževalo. In na zemljo ni deževalo v obdobju treh let in šestih mesecev.
18 And, when he prayed again, the clouds brought rain, and the land bore crops.
In ponovno je molil in nebo je dalo dež in zemlja je obrodila svoj sad.
19 My friends, should one of you be led astray from the truth, and someone bring them back again,
Bratje, če kdo izmed vas zaide od resnice in ga nekdo spreobrne,
20 be sure that the person who brings a sinner back from their mistaken ways will save that person’s soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
naj ta ve, da kdor je grešnika spreobrnil od zmote njegove poti, bo rešil dušo pred smrtjo in zakril množico grehov.
