James 4

1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

Yin pia ya koana leni ya janjanma kuli yi siiga yeni, likuli ŋua be? laa ŋua yi bonbuaka-biadila yaala n tiendi bu toabu yi gbannandi nni ka yoo?

2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

Yi pia yin bua yaala boncianla, ama yi naa fidi ki baa la. Lani yaapo yi tie nikpaba leni nunponli danba, ki naa fidi ki baa yin bua yaala. Yi pia a koana leni mi janjanma yi siiga. Yii baadi kelima yii miadi U Tienu.

3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

Yi mia mo ki naa baa, kelima yi mia ki tudi, ki bua ki biani la yi yucela bonbuaka-biadila po.

4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

Yinba mi conconma danba yeni, yii bani ke ŋanduna ya buama tie yibalindi leni U Tienu yo? Lanwani yua n bua ki ya danli leni ŋanduna kuli tua U Tienu yibali.

5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

Naani yi tama ke i Diani maadi fanma fanma bi? U Tienu bua wan kuani ya fuoma ti niinni ŋali ki pia li nunponli mipo.

6 But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.

U Tienu n tieni tipo ya ŋanbili yaba ki cie kelima i Diani yedi: “U Tienu yie bi japaadanba, ama o puuni bi yumiindanba o ŋanbili.”

7 For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.

Lanwani yin ya miindi mani yi yula U Tienu kani. Yin ya yiedi mani ku tuotabigu yudaano po, lani o baa sani ki foagidi yi kani.

8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

Yin nagini mani U Tienu kani, o mo baa nagini yi kani. Yinba, ti tuonbiadi danba, yin nidi mani yi nii. Hanbi mani yi pala yinba yama lie danba.

9 Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.

Yin bandi mani yi yebiadima ki ya ye leni li paboanli ki ya mua. Yin teni yi laadi n lebidi ki tua paboanli, ki go teni yi pamanli n lebidi ki tua pabiidili.

10 Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.

Yin miini mani yi yula o Diedo kani o baa jigini yi.

11 Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.

N kpiiba, yin da maadi yi yaba po yaala n bia. Yua n maadi yaala n bia o kpiilo po, bi ki jia leni o ti buudi, o maadi yaala n bia li balimaama po ki go ja ma ti buudi. Ama a ya jia ti buudi leni li balimaama, ŋaa go tie li balimaama kubido ka, ama mi bujialo.

12 There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?

Yendo bebe n ye ki tie li balimaama makadikaama daano leni li bujialo, wani yua n baa fidi ki faabi ki go bolini. A mo tie ŋme fini yua n jia leni a nisaalilielo ti buudi?

13 How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

Moala yin cengi mani n maama, yinba yaaba n tua: “Dinla, yaaka saala, ti baa fii ki gedi u naa dogu, yaaka une, ki ban bindi likani, ki ya tiendi u kpendu ki ñu ti ñuadi.”

14 When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.

Yinba yaaba n ki bani yaala n baa cua saala. Yi miana tie be? Yi tie nani ku bantangbadigu yeni, yaagu n ye u yogunu waamu po, ama ki ba yuandi ki bodi.

15 But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.

Li pundi yin ya tua: “O Diedo ya bua ti baa ye ki fo ki tiendi line bi line.”

16 But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

Ama moala, yi kpiagidi yi yula yi yula yi japaayantiana nni. Yi ya kpiagidi yi yula yeni li tie yaala n bia.

17 The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.

Lanwani, yua n bani ki tieni yaala n ŋani ki naa tieni la, o tieni tuonbiadi.