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?
yuṣmākaṁ madhye samarā raṇaśca kuta utpadyante? yuṣmadaṅgaśibirāśritābhyaḥ sukhecchābhyaḥ kiṁ notpadyante?
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;
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 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.
yūyaṁ prārthayadhve kintu na labhadhve yato hetoḥ svasukhabhogeṣu vyayārthaṁ ku prārthayadhve|
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.
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 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"?
yūyaṁ kiṁ manyadhve? śāstrasya vākyaṁ kiṁ phalahīnaṁ bhavet? asmadantarvāsī ya ātmā sa vā kim īrṣyārthaṁ prema karoti?
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."
tannahi kintu sa pratulaṁ varaṁ vitarati tasmād uktamāste yathā, ātmābhimānalokānāṁ vipakṣo bhavatīśvaraḥ| kintu tenaiva namrebhyaḥ prasādād dīyate varaḥ||
7 Submit therefore to God: 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 make your hearts pure, you who are half-hearted towards God.
īśvarasya samīpavarttino bhavata tena sa yuṣmākaṁ samīpavarttī bhaviṣyati| he pāpinaḥ, yūyaṁ svakarān pariṣkurudhvaṁ| he dvimanolokāḥ, yūyaṁ svāntaḥkaraṇāni śucīni kurudhvaṁ|
9 Afflict yourselves and mourn and weep aloud; let your laughter be turned into grief, and your gladness into shame.
yūyam udvijadhvaṁ śocata vilapata ca, yuṣmākaṁ hāsaḥ śokāya, ānandaśca kātaratāyai parivarttetāṁ|
10 Humble yourselves in the presence of the Lord, and He will exalt you.
prabhoḥ samakṣaṁ namrā bhavata tasmāt sa yuṣmān uccīkariṣyati|
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.
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 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?
advitīyo vyavasthāpako vicārayitā ca sa evāste yo rakṣituṁ nāśayituñca pārayati| kintu kastvaṁ yat parasya vicāraṁ karoṣi?
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,"
adya śvo vā vayam amukanagaraṁ gatvā tatra varṣamekaṁ yāpayanto vāṇijyaṁ kariṣyāmaḥ lābhaṁ prāpsyāmaśceti kathāṁ bhāṣamāṇā yūyam idānīṁ śṛṇuta|
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.
śvaḥ kiṁ ghaṭiṣyate tad yūyaṁ na jānītha yato jīvanaṁ vo bhavet kīdṛk tattu bāṣpasvarūpakaṁ, kṣaṇamātraṁ bhaved dṛśyaṁ lupyate ca tataḥ paraṁ|
15 Instead of that you ought to say, "If it is the Lord's will, we shall live and do this or that."
tadanuktvā yuṣmākam idaṁ kathanīyaṁ prabhoricchāto vayaṁ yadi jīvāmastarhyetat karmma tat karmma vā kariṣyāma iti|
16 But, as the case stands, it is in mere self-confidence that you boast: all such boasting is evil.
kintvidānīṁ yūyaṁ garvvavākyaiḥ ślāghanaṁ kurudhve tādṛśaṁ sarvvaṁ ślāghanaṁ kutsitameva|
17 If, however, a man knows what it is right to do and yet does not do it, he commits a sin.
ato yaḥ kaścit satkarmma karttaṁ viditvā tanna karoti tasya pāpaṁ jāyate|
