Jacob 4
1 Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?
yuṣmākaṁ madhye samarā raṇaśca kuta utpadyante? yuṣmadaṅgaśibirāśritābhyaḥ sukhecchābhyaḥ kiṁ notpadyante?
2 You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
yūyaṁ vāñchatha kintu nāpnutha, yūyaṁ narahatyām īrṣyāñca kurutha kintu kṛtārthā bhavituṁ na śaknutha, yūyaṁ yudhyatha raṇaṁ kurutha ca kintvaprāptāstiṣṭhatha, yato hetoḥ prārthanāṁ na kurutha|
3 You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
yūyaṁ prārthayadhve kintu na labhadhve yato hetoḥ svasukhabhogeṣu vyayārthaṁ ku prārthayadhve|
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
he vyabhicāriṇo vyabhicāriṇyaśca, saṁsārasya yat maitryaṁ tad īśvarasya śātravamiti yūyaṁ kiṁ na jānītha? ata eva yaḥ kaścit saṁsārasya mitraṁ bhavitum abhilaṣati sa eveśvarasya śatru rbhavati|
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?
yūyaṁ kiṁ manyadhve? śāstrasya vākyaṁ kiṁ phalahīnaṁ bhavet? asmadantarvāsī ya ātmā sa vā kim īrṣyārthaṁ prema karoti?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
tannahi kintu sa pratulaṁ varaṁ vitarati tasmād uktamāste yathā, ātmābhimānalokānāṁ vipakṣo bhavatīśvaraḥ| kintu tenaiva namrebhyaḥ prasādād dīyate varaḥ||
7 Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
ataeva yūyam īśvarasya vaśyā bhavata śayatānaṁ saṁrundha tena sa yuṣmattaḥ palāyiṣyate|
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
īśvarasya samīpavarttino bhavata tena sa yuṣmākaṁ samīpavarttī bhaviṣyati| he pāpinaḥ, yūyaṁ svakarān pariṣkurudhvaṁ| he dvimanolokāḥ, yūyaṁ svāntaḥkaraṇāni śucīni kurudhvaṁ|
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
yūyam udvijadhvaṁ śocata vilapata ca, yuṣmākaṁ hāsaḥ śokāya, ānandaśca kātaratāyai parivarttetāṁ|
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
prabhoḥ samakṣaṁ namrā bhavata tasmāt sa yuṣmān uccīkariṣyati|
11 Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
he bhrātaraḥ, yūyaṁ parasparaṁ mā dūṣayata| yaḥ kaścid bhrātaraṁ dūṣayati bhrātu rvicārañca karoti sa vyavasthāṁ dūṣayati vyavasthāyāśca vicāraṁ karoti| tvaṁ yadi vyavasthāyā vicāraṁ karoṣi tarhi vyavasthāpālayitā na bhavasi kintu vicārayitā bhavasi|
12 Only one is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
advitīyo vyavasthāpako vicārayitā ca sa evāste yo rakṣituṁ nāśayituñca pārayati| kintu kastvaṁ yat parasya vicāraṁ karoṣi?
13 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
adya śvo vā vayam amukanagaraṁ gatvā tatra varṣamekaṁ yāpayanto vāṇijyaṁ kariṣyāmaḥ lābhaṁ prāpsyāmaśceti kathāṁ bhāṣamāṇā yūyam idānīṁ śṛṇuta|
14 Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
śvaḥ kiṁ ghaṭiṣyate tad yūyaṁ na jānītha yato jīvanaṁ vo bhavet kīdṛk tattu bāṣpasvarūpakaṁ, kṣaṇamātraṁ bhaved dṛśyaṁ lupyate ca tataḥ paraṁ|
15 For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
tadanuktvā yuṣmākam idaṁ kathanīyaṁ prabhoricchāto vayaṁ yadi jīvāmastarhyetat karmma tat karmma vā kariṣyāma iti|
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
kintvidānīṁ yūyaṁ garvvavākyaiḥ ślāghanaṁ kurudhve tādṛśaṁ sarvvaṁ ślāghanaṁ kutsitameva|
17 To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
ato yaḥ kaścit satkarmma karttaṁ viditvā tanna karoti tasya pāpaṁ jāyate|
