James 4
1 Now I will tell you why you are fighting among yourselves and quarreling with each other [RHQ]. It is [RHQ] because each of you wants to do evil things [PRS]. You keep on wanting to do things that are not [what God wants you to do].
D'où viennent les luttes et d'où viennent les querelles parmi vous? N'est-ce pas de vos passions, qui combattent dans vos membres?
2 There are things that you [very much] desire to have, but you do not get [those things, so] you [want to] kill [HYP] [those who hinder you from getting them]. You desire what [other people have], but you are unable to get [what you desire, so] you quarrel and fight [with one another] [HYP]. You do not have [what you desire] because you do not ask [God for it].
Vous convoitez, et vous n'obtenez pas; vous êtes meurtriers et jaloux; vous ne pouvez parvenir à rien; vous avez des querelles et des luttes; vous n'obtenez pas, parce que vous ne demandez pas.
3 [And even when] you do ask [him], he does not give you [what you ask for] because you are asking for the wrong reason. [You are asking for things] in order that you may use them just to (enjoy yourselves/make yourselves happy).
Vous demandez et vous ne recevez pas, parce que vous demandez mal, pour tout dépenser dans vos plaisirs.
4 [Like] a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, you [are being unfaithful to God and not obeying him any more] [MET]. Those who are behaving as evil people do [MTY] (OR, Those who love [the evil pleasures of] this world) are hostile toward God. Perhaps you do not realize that [RHQ]. So those who decide to act as evil people do [MTY] become enemies of God.
Ames adultères, ne savez-vous pas que l'amour du monde est inimitié contre Dieu? Ainsi, celui qui veut être l'ami du monde devient l'ennemi de Dieu.
5 (Surely you remember that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he eagerly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only!/Do you think that it is for no reason that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he strongly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only?) [RHQ] God has a reason for desiring that.
Ou bien, pensez-vous que l'Écriture parle en vain? L'Esprit que Dieu a fait habiter en nous, nous réclame avec jalousie;
6 [It is because] he is kind [to us and he] wants very much to help us. That is why (someone said/[King Solomon] wrote) [in the Scriptures], “God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble.”
mais il nous accorde une grâce plus grande encore. C'est pourquoi l'Écriture dit: «Dieu résiste aux orgueilleux, mais il fait grâce aux humbles.»
7 So submit yourselves to God. (Resist the devil/Refuse to do what the devil wants), and [as a result] he will run away from you.
Soumettez-vous donc à Dieu; résistez au Diable, et il fuira loin de vous.
8 Come near [spiritually] to God, and [as a result] he will come near to you. You who are sinners, stop doing what is wrong, and do only what is good [SYN, MET]. You who cannot decide [whether you will] ([commit yourselves to God/obey God completely]), stop thinking wrong thoughts, and think only pure thoughts [MTY].
Approchez-vous de Dieu, et il s'approchera de vous. Pécheurs, nettoyez vos mains, et vous dont l'âme est partagée, purifiez vos coeurs!
9 Be sorrowful and weep/mourn [DOU] [because of the wrong things that you have done]. Do not laugh [DOU], ([enjoying only what you selfishly/enjoying only what you yourselves]) [desire]. Instead, be sad [because you have done what is wrong].
Sentez votre misère; soyez dans le deuil, et pleurez! Que votre rire se change en deuil, et votre joie en tristesse!
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and [as a result] he will honor you.
Humiliez-vous devant le Seigneur, et il vous élèvera.
11 My fellow believers, stop saying evil things about one another, [because] those who say something evil about a fellow believer and [are therefore] condemning [one who is like] a brother [to them] are really speaking against the law [that God gave us to obey]. [In this law, God commanded] [MTY] [us to love others], and those who say evil things about fellow believers, [it is as though] they are saying that we do not have to do what [God] commanded. If you [(sg)] say that you do not have to do what God commanded, you [(sg)] are not obeying God’s law. Instead, you [(sg)] are claiming that you [have the authority] to condemn [others].
Mes frères, ne médisez pas les uns des autres. Celui qui médit de son frère ou qui juge son frère, médit de la loi et juge la loi. Or, si tu juges la loi, tu n'es pas observateur de la loi, tu t'en rends le juge.
12 [But in fact], there is only one who [has the authority to] tell [people] what is right to do and to condemn [them, and that is God]. He alone is able to save [people] or to destroy people. [So], (you [(sg)] certainly have no right to decide how God should punish other people./who are you to decide how God should punish other people?) [RHQ]
Un seul est législateur et juge, Celui qui peut sauver et qui peut perdre. Mais qui es-tu, toi qui juges ton prochain?
13 [Some of you] are [arrogantly] saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go to a certain city. We will spend a year there and we will buy and sell things and earn a lot of money.” Now, you listen to me!
A vous maintenant, qui dites: Nous irons aujourd'hui ou demain dans telle ville, nous y passerons une année, nous ferons des affaires et nous gagnerons de l'argent.
14 [You should not talk like that, because] you do not know what will happen tomorrow, and you do not know [how long] you will live! Your life [is short] [MET], [like] a mist that appears for a short time and then disappears.
— vous qui ne savez pas ce que sera demain! En effet, qu'est-ce que votre vie? Vous n'êtes qu'une vapeur, qui paraît un instant et qui s'évanouit ensuite.
15 Instead of [what you are saying], you should say, “If the Lord wills/desires, we will live and do this or that.”
Vous devriez dire, au contraire: Si le Seigneur le veut, nous serons en vie, et nous ferons telle ou telle chose.
16 But what you are doing is boasting about all the things that you arrogantly [plan to do]. Your boasting like that is evil.
Mais voici maintenant que votre orgueil éclate dans vos paroles présomptueuses! Or, toute vanterie de ce genre est mauvaise.
17 So if anyone knows the right thing that he should do, [but] he does not do it, he is sinning.
Ainsi donc, celui qui sait faire le bien et qui ne le fait pas, commet un péché.
