James 4
1 What causes wars and contentions among you? Is it not the cravings which are ever at war within you for various pleasures?
Ngondo ni migogoro miongoni mwa muenga fihomela ndaku? Fijhinuka lepi kuhoma mu tamaa sya muenga sibhibhi sya sileta ngondo mugati mwa bhashirika bha jhomu?
2 You covet things and yet cannot get them; you commit murder; you have passionate desires and yet cannot gain your end; you begin to fight and make war. You have not, because you do not pray;
Mwinoghela khela kya mubelili kujha naku. Mwikoma na mwijumbisya khela kyamwibhwe syalepi kujha nakhu. Mwikomana ni kujhwangana na mwakona mwikabhalepi kwandabha jha kutokun's'oka K'yara.
3 or you pray and yet do not receive, because you pray wrongly, your object being to waste what you get on some pleasure or another.
Mwis'oka na mwijhambelelalepi kwa ndabha mwis'oka, kwa ndabha jha mambo mabhibhi, ili kwamba mubhwesiajhi kufitumila kwa tamaa sya muenga sibhibhi.
4 You unfaithful women, do you not know that friendship with the world means enmity to God? Therefore whoever is bent on being friendly with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
Muenga bhazinzi mumanyililepi kujha urafiki ni ulimwengu ndo bhuadui dhidi jha K'yara? Henu jhejhioha jhaiamula kujha rafiki ghwa ulimwengu ikwibheka muene adui ghwa K'yara.
5 Or do you suppose that it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, "The Spirit which He has caused to dwell in our hearts yearns jealously over us"?
Au mwifikilila majhandiku ghajhelepi ni maana paghijobha kujha Roho jhaabhekhili mugati mwa tete ajhe ni bhuifu nesu kwandabha jha tete?
6 But He gives more abundant grace, as is implied in His saying, "God sets Himself against the haughty, but to the lowly He gives grace."
Lakini K'yara ihomesya neema nesu, ndo maana majhandiku ghijobha,”K'yara akampinga jha ajhe ni kiburi, lakini akampela neema mnyenyekevu.”
7 Submit therefore to God: resist the Devil, and he will flee from you.
Efyo, mukihomessiajhi kwa K'yara. Mumpengajhi ibilisi ni muene ibetakujumba kuhoma kwa muenga.
8 Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.
Muhengelekayi palubhafu ni K'yara ni muene ibetakuhengelela palubhafu lwa muenga, musambajhi mabhoko gha muenga, muengajha mujhele ni dhambi, na mutakasiajhi mioyo ghya muenga, muenga jha mujhe ni nia sibhele.
9 Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
Mukilombosiajhi, muombolesiajhi ni kulela! Musanusiajhi luhekhu lwa muenga kujha huzuni ni furaha jha muenga kujha maombolesu.
10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Mukitengolelayi mwebhene palongolo pa K'yara Bwana, na ibetakubhajhinula panani.
11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. The man who speaks evil of a brother-man or judges his brother-man speaks evil of the Law and judges the Law. But if you judge the Law, you are no longer one who obeys the Law, but one who judges it.
Musijobhani kinyume muenga jhomu kwa jhomu, mwebhalukholo. Munu jhaijobha kinyume ni ndongo munu, au kun'hukumula ndongomunu ikheta kinyume ni sheria ni kujhukumu sheria jha K'yara. Mukajhihukumulayi sheria, mukajhijiula sheria, bali mkajhihukumu.
12 The only real Lawgiver and Judge is He who is able to save or to destroy. Who are you to sit in judgement on your fellow man?
Mmonga tu ambajhe jha ihomesya sheria na hakimu, K'yara muene jha ajhe ni bhuweso bhwa kuokola ni kujhangamisya. Bhabhe ghwe niani jha ukan'hukumu jirani ghwa jhobhi?
13 Come, you who say, "To-day or to-morrow we will go to this or that city, and spend a year there and carry on a successful business,"
Mup'elekesiajhi muenga jha mwijobha, “Lelu au kilabhu twibetakulota mu mji obhu, ni kutama miaka okhu, ni kubhomba biashara ni kutengenesya faida.”
14 when, all the while, you do not even know what will happen to-morrow. For what is the nature of your life? Why, it is but a mist, which appears for a short time and then is seen no more.
Niani jha amanyili kiki kyakybeta kuhomela kilabhu, ni maisha gha muene ndo kiki nesu? kwa kujha mwiwaningana kama liluka lya lihomela kwa muda bhudebe ni kisha kujhagha.
15 Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that."
Badala jhiake ngamujobhili, “Kama ndo mapenzi gha Bwana, twibetakuishi ni tubeta kukhela ekhe au khela.”
16 But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.
Lakini henu mwikifuna panani pa mipango ghenu. Majivuno ghoha aghu ndo bhuovu.
17 If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.
Henu, kwa muene jha amanyili kukheta manofu lakini ikheta lepi kwa muene ojhu ndo dhambi.
