ヤコブの手紙 5
1 第五項 種々の勧告。 偖も富める人々よ、汝等が身に到來すべき禍の為に叫び歎け。
Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 汝等の富は腐敗し、汝等の衣服は蠧まれ、
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 汝等の金銀は銹びたり。斯て其銹は汝等に證據と成て、火の如くに汝等の肉を食まん、汝等は末の日に對して怒を貯へたるなり。
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
4 看よ、汝等が欺きて、汝等の土地を刈取りし作人に與へざりし賃金は叫ぶ、彼等の叫は萬軍の主の耳に入れり。
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 汝等は地上に在りて歓樂し、身を放蕩に委ね、殺害の日に當りても心を満足せしめ、
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 義人を罪に定めて之を殺ししも、彼は汝等に抵抗せざりき。
Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
7 然れば兄弟等よ、主の降臨まで忍耐せよ、看よや農夫が地の尊き果を待ちて、春秋の雨を受くるまで忍耐するを。
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
8 然れば汝等も忍耐して心を堅うせよ、蓋主の降臨は近きに在り。
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 兄弟等よ、汝等審判せられざらん為に、相怨む事勿れ、看よ審判者は門前に立ち給ふ。
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 兄弟等よ、汝等主の御名によりて語りし預言者等を以て、苦痛と忍耐との模範とせよ。
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 我等が忍耐したる人々を福なりとするを思へ、汝等曾てヨブの忍耐を聞き、又終に主の為し給ひし事を見たり。即ち主は慈悲深く在して、憫を垂れ給ふ者なり。
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very compassionate, and of tender mercy.
12 我兄弟等よ、汝等第一に、或は天、或は地、或は他の何物を以ても誓ふ事勿れ、唯然りは然り、否は否と云へ、之審判に罹らざらん為なり。
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 汝等の中に憂ふる者あらんか、其人は祈るべきなり。喜ぶ者あらんか、其人は聖詩を謳ふべきなり。
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
14 汝等の中に病める者あらんか、其人は教會の長老等を喚ぶべく、彼等は主の御名によりて之に注油し、之が上に祈るべし。
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the Assembly; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 斯て信仰の祈は病者を救ひ、主之を引立て給ひ、若罪あらば赦さるべきなり。
And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 然れば互ひに己が罪を告白して、互の為に祈れ、是汝等の醫されん為なり。義人の篤き祈は大いなる効力あり。
Confess your trespasses one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 エリアは我等と同様の人なりしも、雨の地上に降らざらん事を切に祈りしかば、降らざる事三年六箇月なりき。
Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 斯て再び祈りしかば、天は雨を與へ地は果を與へたりき。
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 我兄弟等よ、若汝等の中に眞理を過てる者あり、人ありて之を立歸らしめんか、
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 罪人を其道の迷より立歸らしめたる者は、其魂を死より救ひ、多くの罪を覆ふべしと識るべきなり。
Let him know, that he which converteth the sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall hide a multitude of sins.
