James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Angʼo makelo goruok gi dhawo e kindu? Donge gia kuom gombou makedo matek e chunyu?
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
Udwaro ni ubed gi gik moko, to ok uyudgi. Uneko kendo ugombo gige ji, to ok unyal yudo gik mudwarogo. Udhawo kendo ugoru e kindu ngʼato gi ngʼato. Ok uyud gik mudwaro nikech ok ukwa Nyasaye.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
To kata ka ukwayo Nyasaye, to ok uyud gik mukwayo nikech ukwayo gi paro maricho mondo utimgo dwarou uwegi.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Un joma terore! Donge ungʼeyo ni hero piny en chayo Nyasaye? Ngʼato angʼata moyiero e chunye mondo obed osiep piny doko jasik Nyasaye.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Koso uparo ni muma wacho kayiem ni chuny Nyasaye moketo mondo odag eiwa nigi nyiego mager.
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
To kata kamano omiyowa ngʼwono maduongʼ moloyo, mano emomiyo Muma wacho niya, “Nyasaye osin gi josunga, to ochiwo ngʼwono ne joma muol.”
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Omiyo bolreuru e bwo Loch Nyasaye. Kweduru Satan, eka noringu.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Suduru but Nyasaye, eka nosud butu. Luokuru lweteu, un jorichogi, kendo pwodhuru chunyu, un joma nigi paro ariyogi.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Owinjore ubed gikuyo kendo uywagi, ka ugoyo nduru. Nyiero munyierogo onego olokre ywak, kendo mor mumorgo onego olokre kuyo.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Bolreuru e nyim Ruoth Nyasaye eka obiro otingʼou malo.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Owetena, kik uketh nying joweteu. Ngʼato angʼata ma wuoyo marach kuom nyawadgi kata mangʼado ni nyawadgi bura nyaka ngʼe ni Chik ema owuoyo kuome marach kendo ongʼadone bura. To ngʼat mangʼado ni Chik bura ok orito Chik nikech osedoko ngʼama ngʼadone bura.
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Wuon Chik ma bende en Jangʼad bura en achiel kende. En ema onyalo reso kata nego ngʼato. In to in ngʼa mondo ingʼad ni nyawadu bura?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
Chikuru itu mondo uwinja, un joma wacho niya, “Kawuono kata kiny wanadhi e dala ni, kata e dala cha, mondo wadag kuno higa achiel, mondo walok ohala kuno eka walos pesa.”
14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Ere kaka uwuoyo kamano to ukia gima kiny notimre. Uparo ni ngimau en angʼo? Ngimau chalo mana ka ongʼwengʼo mineno sa matin kende to bangʼe lal nono.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Kar wacho kamano to onego uwach mana niya, “Ka Ruoth oyie to wabiro bedo mangima mi watim ma kata macha.”
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Un to usungoru kendo upakoru! Ngʼeuru ni sunga ma kamano en richo.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Kuom mano, ngʼato ka ngʼata mongʼeyo gima ber monego otim, to ok otimo, doko jaricho.
