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].
Wilei nuhutani mung'wanyu upumile pee? Shangauukie munsula yanyunee nimbe nuukuleta imbita muihangwili wanyu?
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].
Mukite insula ike nimiagila. Mukubulaga nukiduma ikenimiagila uhumi kutula nikenso. Mukikua nukilea, hangi mukile mupate kunsoko shangamunulompile Itunda.
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).
Mukulompa shanga mukupegwa kunsoko mukulompa mupegwe mitumile munkani nimbe, inge muhume kitumila munsula yanyu nimbe.
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.
Unye asambo! Shamulingilene kina ishumbashuya nuunku mbigulu kina ulugu kung'wi Tunda.
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.
Ang'wi mulingile inkilele inge ngila anga ndogoelyo niilungile kina ung'waung'welu nukule mukate itu ukete wilu ukulu kunsoko itu.
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.”
Ingi Itunda wipumya ukende kukila, yeyo ndogoilyo inkeele ilungile, Itunda wimugilya nulugoha, inge wemupeza ukende uyu nuisima.
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.
Iti ipumyi kung'wi Tunda, mugilyi umulugu nung'wenso ukumanka ukuhega kung'wanyu.
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].
Humbeeli pakupe ni Tunda, nung'wenso ukumuhumbila pakupenunyenye. Kalali imikono anyu, unye nimiamilando, hangi melye inkolo yanyu, unye nimeailya.
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].
Tuli nuukia muhongelye, hangi mulile! Peuli imaheko anyu atule ukea nuulowa wanyu utule uhongelya.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and [as a result] he will honor you.
Misimye unyenye ntongeela ang'wa Bwana, uzizamuhumbula migolya.
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].
Muleke kitambula nyenye kwa nyenye, muluna, umuntu nukutambula nimabe kumuluna ang'we akumusemela milagolang'wi Tunda. Angamulisemele ilago, shangamugombile ilago inge mulisemee.
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]
Inge ung'wedu numupumya ilago nitai, Itunda, ng'wenso ukete uhumi nuokuguna nukulimilya uwe wenyenyu nukumulamuila umunyakesali?
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!
Sitegelyi, unye nimilunga, Leloang'we mudau kinzu mukisale ike, nukikie ung'waka uwu, nukuduma nukutugisa nsao.
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.
Nyenyu nulingile kina ntuninikapumila mudau, nulikalo lanyu ntuni gwaa? Kunsoko mimyani nikuhi nuigeela matungo makupi sunga wikalimila.
15 Instead of [what you are saying], you should say, “If the Lord wills/desires, we will live and do this or that.”
Angaaza mulunge, angeze ulowa wang'wa Bwana, kuikie nokituma ike neko.
16 But what you are doing is boasting about all the things that you arrogantly [plan to do]. Your boasting like that is evil.
Inge itungiile mekaaona mumasego anyu. Uwioni wihi uujuinge ube.
17 So if anyone knows the right thing that he should do, [but] he does not do it, he is sinning.
Kuitegwa uyu numanyile kituma nimaza sunga shaikituma kung'wakwe nuanso mulandu.
