يَعقُوب 4
| مِنْ أَيْنَ ٱلْحُرُوبُ وَٱلْخُصُومَاتُ بَيْنَكُمْ؟ أَلَيْسَتْ مِنْ هُنَا: مِنْ لَذَّاتِكُمُ ٱلْمُحَارِبَةِ فِي أَعْضَائِكُمْ؟ | ١ 1 |
What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?
| تَشْتَهُونَ وَلَسْتُمْ تَمْتَلِكُونَ. تَقْتُلُونَ وَتَحْسِدُونَ وَلَسْتُمْ تَقْدِرُونَ أَنْ تَنَالُوا. تُخَاصِمُونَ وَتُحَارِبُونَ وَلَسْتُمْ تَمْتَلِكُونَ، لِأَنَّكُمْ لَا تَطْلُبُونَ. | ٢ 2 |
You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray;
| تَطْلُبُونَ وَلَسْتُمْ تَأْخُذُونَ، لِأَنَّكُمْ تَطْلُبُونَ رَدِيًّا لِكَيْ تُنْفِقُوا فِي لَذَّاتِكُمْ. | ٣ 3 |
or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
| أَيُّهَا ٱلزُّنَاةُ وَٱلزَّوَانِي، أَمَا تَعْلَمُونَ أَنَّ مَحَبَّةَ ٱلْعَالَمِ عَدَاوَةٌ لِلهِ؟ فَمَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يَكُونَ مُحِبًّا لِلْعَالَمِ، فَقَدْ صَارَ عَدُوًّا لِلهِ. | ٤ 4 |
You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
| أَمْ تَظُنُّونَ أَنَّ ٱلْكِتَابَ يَقُولُ بَاطِلًا: ٱلرُّوحُ ٱلَّذِي حَلَّ فِينَا يَشْتَاقُ إِلَى ٱلْحَسَدِ؟ | ٥ 5 |
Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "The Spirit which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns jealously over us"?
| وَلَكِنَّهُ يُعْطِي نِعْمَةً أَعْظَمَ. لِذَلِكَ يَقُولُ: «يُقَاوِمُ ٱللهُ ٱلْمُسْتَكْبِرِينَ، وَأَمَّا ٱلْمُتَوَاضِعُونَ فَيُعْطِيهِمْ نِعْمَةً». | ٦ 6 |
But He gives more abundant grace, as is implied in His saying, "God sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly He gives grace."
| فَٱخْضَعُوا لِلهِ. قَاوِمُوا إِبْلِيسَ فَيَهْرُبَ مِنْكُمْ. | ٧ 7 |
Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
| اِقْتَرِبُوا إِلَى ٱللهِ فَيَقْتَرِبَ إِلَيْكُمْ. نَقُّوا أَيْدِيَكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلْخُطَاةُ، وَطَهِّرُوا قُلُوبَكُمْ يَا ذَوِي ٱلرَّأْيَيْنِ. | ٨ 8 |
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.
| ٱكْتَئِبُوا وَنُوحُوا وَٱبْكُوا. لِيَتَحَوَّلْ ضَحِكُكُمْ إِلَى نَوْحٍ، وَفَرَحُكُمْ إِلَى غَمٍّ. | ٩ 9 |
Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
| ٱتَّضِعُوا قُدَّامَ ٱلرَّبِّ فَيَرْفَعَكُمْ. | ١٠ 10 |
Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
| لَا يَذُمَّ بَعْضُكُمْ بَعْضًا أَيُّهَا ٱلْإِخْوَةُ. ٱلَّذِي يَذُمُّ أَخَاهُ وَيَدِينُ أَخَاهُ يَذُمُّ ٱلنَّامُوسَ وَيَدِينُ ٱلنَّامُوسَ. وَإِنْ كُنْتَ تَدِينُ ٱلنَّامُوسَ، فَلَسْتَ عَامِلًا بِٱلنَّامُوسِ، بَلْ دَيَّانًا لَهُ. | ١١ 11 |
Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.
| وَاحِدٌ هُوَ وَاضِعُ ٱلنَّامُوسِ، ٱلْقَادِرُ أَنْ يُخَلِّصَ وَيُهْلِكَ. فَمَنْ أَنْتَ يَا مَنْ تَدِينُ غَيْرَكَ؟ | ١٢ 12 |
The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to save or to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man?
| هَلُمَّ ٱلْآنَ أَيُّهَا ٱلْقَائِلُونَ: «نَذْهَبُ ٱلْيَوْمَ أَوْ غَدًا إِلَى هَذِهِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ أَوْ تِلْكَ، وَهُنَاكَ نَصْرِفُ سَنَةً وَاحِدَةً وَنَتَّجِرُ وَنَرْبَحُ». | ١٣ 13 |
Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business,"
| أَنْتُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا تَعْرِفُونَ أَمْرَ ٱلْغَدِ! لِأَنَّهُ مَا هِيَ حَيَاتُكُمْ؟ إِنَّهَا بُخَارٌ، يَظْهَرُ قَلِيلًا ثُمَّ يَضْمَحِلُّ. | ١٤ 14 |
when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.
| عِوَضَ أَنْ تَقُولُوا: «إِنْ شَاءَ ٱلرَّبُّ وَعِشْنَا نَفْعَلُ هَذَا أَوْ ذَاكَ». | ١٥ 15 |
Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that."
| وَأَمَّا ٱلْآنَ فَإِنَّكُمْ تَفْتَخِرُونَ فِي تَعَظُّمِكُمْ. كُلُّ ٱفْتِخَارٍ مِثْلُ هَذَا رَدِيءٌ. | ١٦ 16 |
But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.
| فَمَنْ يَعْرِفُ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ حَسَنًا وَلَا يَعْمَلُ، فَذَلِكَ خَطِيَّةٌ لَهُ. | ١٧ 17 |
If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.
