James 5
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.
你们富人哪！你们应为将降临你们头上的灾祸哭泣哀号。
2 Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.
你们的财富会腐朽，你们的衣服会被虫蛀。
3 Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.
你们的金银会生锈，这腐蚀将成为控告你们的铁证，像火一样吞噬你们的肉体。你们竟然在这末日积敛财富。
4 Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
看哪，你们竟然克扣其工钱的农场工人，正在控诉你们；我们的万军之主已经听到了工人们的哭诉。
5 You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.
你们在世上尽情享受奢华的生活，将自己变得肥胖，不过是等待屠宰之日的到来。
6 You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.
你们把无辜之人定罪杀害，他们没有反抗。
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.
朋友们，耐心一些至主回归。想想农夫如何耐心等待田地中宝贵的收成，等着它们在秋霖春雨中生长。
8 Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
你们也应当忍耐，保持坚定，因为主回归不远了。
9 Grudge not, brethren, one against another, that you may not be judged. Behold the judge standeth before the door.
我的朋友们，不要彼此抱怨，免得你们受审判。看哪，审判者已站在门前了。
10 Take, my brethren, for an example of suffering evil, of labour and patience, the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
朋友们，可以将先知作为一个例子，看看他们在苦难时如何以主之名发言，如何耐心等待。
11 Behold, we account them blessed who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
请注意，我们会称那些忍耐之人为有福之人。你们听过约伯的忍耐，看见了主赐给他的结果，因为主满心怜悯和仁慈。
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath. But let your speech be, yea, yea: no, no: that you fall not under judgment.
我的朋友们，最要紧的是不可发誓：不可指天发誓，不可指地发誓，不可说出任何誓言。只需在该说是时说是，该说不是时说不是；免得你们受到审判。
13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray. Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.
你们中间有人在受苦吗？你应该祷告。有人心情愉快吗？你应该唱出赞美之歌。
14 Is any man sick among you? Let him bring in the priests of the church, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
你们中间有人患病吗？那就请教会的长老来，让他们奉主的名为他抹油祈祷。
15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick man: and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he be in sins, they shall be forgiven him.
这种信上帝的祈祷，可以让病人康复，主必叫他们好起来；如果他们犯了罪，也必蒙赦免。
16 Confess therefore your sins one to another: and pray one for another, that you may be saved. For the continual prayer of a just man availeth much.
所以你们应当向彼此坦诚做过的错事，为彼此起到，这样你们就可以痊愈。过着正直良善生活的诚心之人，他的祈祷非常有效。
17 Elias was a man passible like unto us: and with prayer he prayed that it might not rain upon the earth, and it rained not for three years and six months.
以利亚与我们性情相同；他恳切祈求不要下雨，大地在三年半内就没有雨；
18 And he prayed again: and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
他再次祈祷，天就下起雨，大地迎来丰收。
19 My brethren, if any of you err from the truth, and one convert him:
我的朋友们，你们中如有人偏离真理，如果有人带你回头，
20 He must know that he who causeth a sinner to be converted from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
让他们知道，凡是把罪人从错误的道路上救出来的，就能把他们从死亡中救出来，并能得到许多罪的赦免。
