Jakobo 5
1 Chikuru itu uwinja, un jo-mwandu! Ywaguru kendo gouru nduru nikech masiche mathoth mochomou.
O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.
2 Mwandu ma un-go osetop, kendo olwenda osechamo lepu otieko.
For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:
3 Dhahabu gi fedha ma un-go nyal osechamo, kendo nyal mochamogigo ema biro bedo joneno makwedou kaka joketho, kendo gibiro chamo ringreu ka mach. Usechoko mwandu e ndalo gikoni!
and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.
4 To neuru pok uchulo misach jotich mane otiyonu e puotheu kendo ywak mag jokeyogo osechopo e it Jehova Nyasaye Maratego.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the reapers hath entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 Usedak e piny-ka kudhialoru e ngima mamalo, usebedo jowuoro mudoko machwe to koro chiengʼ yengʼo osechopo.
For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter.
6 Usengʼado bura mi unego joma kare, mane ok ked kodu e yo moro amora.
Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.
7 Emomiyo horeuru mos, jowetena, nyaka chop Ruoth duogi. Neuru kaka japur rito puothe mondo onyagne cham mokonyorego, kendo kaka ohore mos korito kodh opon gi kodh chwiri.
But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
8 Un bende horeuru mos, kendo jiwuru chunyu, nikech Ruoth chiegni duogo.
So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh
9 Kik ngʼato kuomu ngʼur gi nyawadgi owetena, nono to ibiro ngʼadnu bura kaka joketho. Neuru ni Jangʼad bura ochungʼ e dhoot!
Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door.
10 Owetena, kawuru jonabi mane owuoyo e nying Ruoth kaka ranyisi mar bedo gi horuok e kinde chandruok.
For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Kaka ungʼeyo maber ni joma ohore mos e chandruok ema ikwano ni ogwedhi bende usewinjo kuom horuok mar Ayub, kendo ungʼeyo gima Ruoth notimone achien. Ruoth nigi kech kod ngʼwono mathoth.
For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; and ye have seen the result which the Lord wrought for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
12 To moloyo mago duto, owetena, ka usingoru e wach moro to kik ukwongʼru. Kik ukwongʼru gi polo kata gi piny kata gi gimoro amora machielo. Kar timo kamano to “Ee” maru mondo obed mana ee, kendo “Ooyo” maru bende obed mana ooyo, nono to buch Nyasaye biro loyou.
But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.
13 Ka ngʼato kuomu nigi chandruok, to onego olem. Ka ngʼato kuomu nigi mor, to onego ower wende pak.
And if any of you shall be in affliction, let him pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms.
14 Ka ngʼato kuomu tuo, to onego oluong jodong kanisa mondo olamne kendo owire gi mo e nying Ruoth.
And if one is sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord:
15 Nikech lamo molam kuom yie biro kelo chang ni jatuo, mi Ruoth mi oa malo. To ka osetimo richo to nowene.
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him.
16 Emomiyo ngʼato ka ngʼato mondo ohul richone kendo olam ni nyawadgi, mondo eka uyud chang. Lamo mar ngʼat makare nigi teko kendo timo tich.
And confess ye your faults one to another, and pray ye one for another, that ye may be healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer which a righteous man prayeth.
17 Elija ne en dhano mana kaka wan. Nolemo koketo chunye mondo kik koth chue, mi koth ne ok ochwe e piny kuom higni adek gi nus.
Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months.
18 Eka bangʼe nolemo kendo mi polo noyawore mi koth ochwe kendo mi piny nochiego cham.
And again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits.
19 Owetena, ka ngʼato kuomu obaro oweyo adiera, mi ngʼat moro odwoke e yo,
My brethren, if one of you err from the way of truth, and any one convert him from his error;
20 to ngʼeuru ni ngʼat modwoko jaricho mobayo yo oreso chunye kuom tho kendo omiyo owene richone mathoth.
let him know, that he who turneth the sinner from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul from death, and will cover the multitude of his sins.
