James 4
1 From where [are] wars and fightings among you? [Is it] not from here, out of your passions warring in your members?
Unde bella, et lites in vobis? Nonne hinc? Ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris?
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;
Concupiscitis, et non habetis: occiditis, et zelatis: et non potestis adipisci: litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis.
3 you ask, and you do not receive, because you ask badly, that you may spend [it] in your pleasures.
Petitis, et non accipitis: eo quod male petatis: ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.
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.
Adulteri nescitis quia amicitia huius mundi, inimica est Dei? Quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi huius, inimicus Dei constituitur.
5 Or, do you think that the Writing says emptily, “The Spirit that has dwelt in us yearns with envy,”
An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat: Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus, qui habitat in vobis?
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.”
Maiorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit: Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam.
7 Be subject, then, to God; stand up against the Devil, and he will flee from you;
Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.
8 draw near to God, and He will draw near to you; cleanse hands, you sinners! And purify hearts, you split-souled!
Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores: et purificate corda, duplices animo.
9 Be exceedingly afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter be turned to mourning, and the joy to heaviness;
Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate: risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem.
10 be made low before the LORD, and He will exalt you.
Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.
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.
Nolite detrahere alterutrum fratres. Qui detrahit fratri, aut qui iudicat fratrem suum, detrahit legi, et iudicat legem. Si autem iudicas legem: non es factor legis, sed iudex.
12 One is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; you—who are you that judges the other?
Unus est legislator, et iudex, qui potest perdere, et liberare.
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,”
Tu autem quis es, qui iudicas proximum? Ecce nunc qui dicitis: Hodie, aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem, et faciemus ibi quidem annum, et mercabimur, et lucrum faciemus:
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;
qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino.
15 instead, you [ought] to say, “If the LORD may will, we will live, and do this or that”;
Quæ est enim vita vestra? Vapor est ad modicum parens, et deinceps exterminabitur; pro eo ut dicatis: Si Dominus voluerit. Et: Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.
16 but now you glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
Nunc autem exultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exultatio talis, maligna est.
17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing [it], it is sin to him.
Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.
