James 4
1 What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Wanni lolaa fi walitti buʼuu isin gidduutti kaasu maali? Isaan hawwii isin keessatti wal lolan irraa dhufu mitii?
2 You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
Isin ni hawwitu; garuu hin argattan. Kanaaf ni ajjeeftu; ni hinaaftus. Garuu waan barbaaddan sana argachuu hin dandeessan. Kanaafis walitti buutu; wal loltus. Isin waan Waaqa hin kadhanneef hin qabaattan.
3 And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.
Isin dharraa keessan hamaa guutachuuf jettanii yaada hamaan waan kadhattaniif yommuu kadhattan hin argattan.
4 You adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore, whoever chooses to be a friend of the world renders himself an enemy of God.
Yaa ejjitoota, addunyaatti michoomuun Waaqatti diina taʼuu akka taʼe hin beektanii? Namni michuu addunyaa taʼu kam iyyuu diina Waaqaa taʼa.
5 Or do you think the Scripture says without reason that the Spirit He caused to dwell in us yearns with envy?
Yookaan wanni Katabbiin Qulqulluun, “Hafuurri nu keessa jiraatu sun hinaaffaadhaan hawwa” jedhu akkasumaan dubbatama seetuu ree?
6 But He gives us more grace. This is why it says: “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Inni garuu ayyaana caalu nuuf kenna. Sababiin Katabbiin Qulqulluun, “Waaqni of tuultotaan ni morma; warra gad of qabaniif immoo ayyaana kenna” jedhuufis kanuma.
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Kanaafuu Waaqaaf bulaa. Diiyaabiloosiin immoo mormaa; innis isin baqataa.
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Waaqatti dhiʼaadhaa; innis isinitti ni dhiʼaataa. Isin cubbamoonni harka keessan dhiqadhaa; warri yaada lama qabdanis garaa keessan qulqulleeffadhaa.
9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
Dhiphadhaa; gaddaa; booʼaas. Kolfi keessan booʼichatti, gammachuun keessan immoo gaddatti haa geeddaramu.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Fuula Gooftaa duratti gad of qabaa; inni immoo ol isin qabaa.
11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. And if you judge the law, you are not a practitioner of the law, but a judge of it.
Yaa obboloota, wal hin hammeessinaa. Namni obboleessa isaa hammeessu yookaan obboleessa isaatti muru kam iyyuu seera hammeessa; seerattis ni mura. Garuu ati yoo seeratti murte seera sanatti muraa jirta malee isaaf ajajamaa hin jirtu.
12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the One who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
Inni seera tumuu fi Abbaan Murtii tokkichuma; innis isa fayyisuu fi balleessuu dandaʼuu dha. Garuu nama kaanitti muruuf ati eenyu?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business, and make a profit.”
Egaa isin warri, “Harʼa yookaan bor magaalaa kana yookaan magaalaa sana dhaqnee waggaa tokko achi turra; daldallees buʼaa arganna” jettan mee dhagaʼaa.
14 You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
Isin waan bor taʼuuf jiru iyyuu hin beektan. Jireenyi keessan maal innii? Isin hurrii yeroo xinnoof mulʼattee ergasii immoo badduu dha.
15 Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord is willing, we will live and do this or that.”
Qooda kanaa isin, “Yoo Gooftaan jedhe, nu ni jiraanna; waan kana yookaan waan sana ni hojjenna” jechuu qabdu.
16 As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
Amma garuu isin of jajuu keessanitti gammaddu. Gammachuun akkasii hundi hamaa dha.
17 Anyone, then, who knows the right thing to do, yet fails to do it, is guilty of sin.
Egaa namni kam iyyuu waan gaarii hojjechuu qabu utuma beekuu yoo hojjechuu baate kun cubbuu isatti taʼa.
