James 4
1 From where [are] wars and fightings among you? [Is it] not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?
汝 等のうちの戰爭は何處よりか、分爭は何處よりか、汝らの肢體のうちに戰ふ慾より來るにあらずや。
2 You desire, and do not have, [so] you murder; and you are zealous, and are not able to attain, [so] you fight and war; and you do not have, because of your not asking;
汝ら貪れども得ず、殺すことをなし、妬むことを爲れども得ること能はず、汝らは爭ひまた戰す。汝らの得ざるは求めざるに因りてなり。
3 you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.
汝ら求めてなほ受けざるは慾のために費さんとて妄に求むるが故なり。
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! Have you not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? Whoever, then, may intend to be a friend of the world, he is designated [as] an enemy of God.
姦淫をおこなふ者よ、世の友となるは、神に敵するなるを知らぬか、誰にても世の友とならんと欲する者は、己を神の敵とするなり。
5 Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”
聖書に『神は我らの衷に住ませ給ひし靈を、妬むほどに慕ひたまふ』と云へるを虚しきことと汝ら思ふか。
6 but [God] gives greater grace, for this reason it says, “God sets Himself up against proud ones, and He gives grace to lowly ones.”
神は更に大なる恩惠を賜ふ。されば言ふ『神は高ぶる者を拒ぎ、へりくだる者に恩惠を與へ給ふ』と。
7 Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;
この故に汝ら神に服へ、惡魔に立ち向へ、さらば彼なんぢらを逃げ去らん。
8 draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!
神に近づけ、さらば神なんぢらに近づき給はん。罪人よ、手を淨めよ、二心の者よ、心を潔よくせよ。
9 Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;
なんぢら惱め、悲しめ、泣け、なんぢらの笑を悲歎に、なんぢらの歡喜を憂に易へよ。
10 be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.
主の前に己を卑うせよ、然らば主なんぢらを高うし給はん。
11 Do not speak against one another, brothers; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, speaks against law, and judges law, and if you judge law, you are not a doer of law but a judge.
兄弟よ、互に謗るな。兄弟を謗る者、兄弟を審く者は、これ律法を誹り、律法を審くなり。汝もし律法を審かば、律法をおこなふ者にあらずして審判 人なり。
12 One is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you—who are you that judges the other?
立法者また審判者は唯 一人にして、救ふことをも滅ぼすことをも爲し得るなり。なんぢ誰なれば隣を審くか。
13 Go, now, you who are saying, “Today and tomorrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain,”
聽け『われら今日もしくは明日それがしの町に往きて、一年の間かしこに留り、賣買して利を得ん』と言ふ者よ、
14 who does not know the thing of tomorrow; for what is your life? For it is a vapor that is appearing for a little [while], and then is vanishing;
汝らは明日のことを知らず、汝らの生命は何ぞ、暫く現れて遂に消ゆる霧なり。
15 instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;
汝 等その言ふところに易へて『主の御意ならば、我ら活きて此のこと、或は彼のことを爲さん』と言ふべきなり。
16 but now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
されど今なんぢらは高ぶりて誇る、斯くのごとき誇はみな惡しきなり。
17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing [it], it is sin to him.
人 善を行ふことを知りて、之を行はぬは罪なり。
