James 4
1 Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
Koswana mpe bitumba kati na bino ewutaka wapi? Boni, ewutaka te na baposa mabe na bino, oyo ebundaka kati na banzoto na bino?
2 You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.
Bozali kolula biloko, kasi bozali kozwa yango te; bokomi kino koboma bato. Botondi na zuwa, kasi bozali kolonga te kozwa oyo bozali koluka; bokomi koswana mpe kobunda bitumba. Bozwaka te biloko oyo bozalaka na yango posa, pamba te bosengaka yango epai ya Nzambe te.
3 You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
Kasi soki bosengaka epai ya Nzambe mpe bozwaka te, ezali mpo ete bosengaka na makanisi mabe, na makanisi ya kosepelisa kaka baposa na bino moko.
4 You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.
Bato na ekobo! Boyebi te ete kolinga mokili ezali koyina Nzambe? Moto oyo alingi kozala moninga ya mokili amikomisi monguna ya Nzambe.
5 Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”
Mpe lisusu, bokanisi ete ezali na pamba nde Makomi elobi: « Nzambe azalaka na zuwa makasi mpo na Molimo oyo atia kati na biso? »
6 But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
Nzokande, Nzambe atalisaka biso ngolu oyo eleki, pamba te Makomi eloba: « Nzambe atelemelaka bato ya lolendo, kasi atalisaka ngolu na Ye epai ya bato oyo bamikitisaka. »
7 Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Bomikitisa liboso ya Nzambe. Botelemela Satana, mpe akokima mosika na bino.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!
Bopusana pene ya Nzambe, mpe Ye akoya pene na bino. Bino bato ya masumu, bosukola maboko na bino; bino bato ya mitema mibale, bopetola mitema na bino!
9 Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.
Botala pasi na bino, bosala matanga mpe bolela. Tika ete koseka na bino ebongwana kolela, mpe esengo na bino ekoma mawa!
10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Bomikitisa liboso ya Nkolo, mpe Nkolo akotombola bino.
11 Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Bandeko na ngai, botonganaka te bino na bino. Moto oyo atongaka mpe asambisaka ndeko na ye asambwisaka mibeko mpe abukaka yango. Nzokande, soki ozali kosambwisa mibeko, elakisi ete ozali kotosa yango te, kasi ozali nde mosambisi na yango.
12 There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.
Pamba te Ye oyo apesa mibeko azali kaka Ye moko Mosambisi, Ye nde azali na makoki ya kobikisa mpe ya kobebisa. Bongo yo, ozali nani mpo ete osambisa moninga na yo?
13 But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,”
Boyoka sik’oyo, bino bato oyo bolobaka: « Lelo to lobi, tokokende na engumba songolo, tokovanda kuna mobu mobimba mpe tokosala mombongo oyo ekobotela biso mbongo ebele. »
14 consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
Boni, boyebi makambo oyo ekoya lobi? Bomoi na bino nde nini? Ezali kaka te lokola londende oyo emonanaka mpo na mwa tango moke mpe, na sima, elimwe?
15 For what is your life? It is a mist that appears for a brief time, and afterwards will vanish away. So what you ought to say is: “If the Lord wills,” or, “If we live,” we will do this or that.
Tala ndenge bosengeli koloba: « Soki Nkolo alingi, tokozala na bomoi mpe tokosala likambo songolo to pakala. »
16 But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.
Kasi bino, bozali nde komikumisa na monene ya mabongisi na bino! Boyeba malamu ete lolendo ya ndenge wana ezali mabe.
17 Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.
Moto oyo ayebi kosala bolamu, kasi asali yango te, asali masumu.
