James 5
1 Come, you rich men, weep aloud and howl for your sorrows which will soon be upon you.
Hodite vi sad, bogati, plaèite i ridajte za svoje ljute nevolje koje idu na vas.
2 Your treasures have rotted, and your piles of clothing are moth-eaten;
Bogatstvo vaše istruhnu, i haljine vaše pojedoše moljci;
3 your gold and your silver have become covered with rust, and the rust on them will give evidence against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded up wealth in these last days.
Zlato vaše i srebro zarða, i rða njihova biæe svjedoèanstvo na vas: izješæe tijelo vaše kao oganj. Stekoste bogatstvo u pošljednje dane.
4 I tell you that the pay of the labourers who have gathered in your crops--pay which you are keeping back--is calling out against you; and the outcries of those who have been your reapers have entered into the ears of the Lord of the armies of Heaven.
Gle, vièe plata vašijeh poslenika koji su radili njive vaše i vi ste im otkinuli; i vika žetelaca doðe do ušiju Gospoda Savaota.
5 Here on earth you have lived self-indulgent and profligate lives. You have stupefied yourselves with gross feeding; but a day of slaughter has come.
Veseliste se na zemlji, i nasladiste se; uhraniste srca svoja, kao na dan zaklanja.
6 You have condemned--you have murdered-- the righteous man: he offers no resistance.
Osudiste, ubiste pravednika, i ne brani vam se.
7 Be patient therefore, brethren, until the Coming of the Lord. Notice how eagerly a farmer waits for a valuable crop! He is patient over it till it has received the early and the later rain.
Trpite dakle, braæo moja, do dolaska Gospodnjega. Gle, težak èeka plemenitoga roda iz zemlje, i rado trpi dok ne primi dažd rani i pozni.
8 So you also must be patient: keeping up your courage; for the Coming of the Lord is now close at hand.
Trpite dakle i vi, i utvrdite srca svoja, jer se dolazak Gospodnji približi.
9 Do not cry out in condemnation of one another, brethren, lest you come under judgement. I tell you that the Judge is standing at the door.
Ne uzdišite jedan na drugoga, braæo, da ne budete osuðeni: gle, sudija stoji pred vratima.
10 In illustration, brethren, of persecution patiently endured take the Prophets who have spoken as messengers from the Lord.
Uzmite, braæo moja, za ugled stradanja proroke koji govoriše u ime Gospoda.
11 Remember that we call those blessed who endured what they did. You have also heard of Job's patient endurance, and have seen the issue of the Lord's dealings with him--how full of tenderness and pity the Lord is.
Gle, blažene nazivamo one koji pretrplješe. Trpljenje Jovljevo èuste, i pošljedak Gospodnji vidjeste: jer je Gospod milostiv i smiluje se.
12 But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, either by Heaven or by the earth, or with any other oath. Let your 'yes' be simply 'yes,' and your 'no' be simply 'no;' that you may not come under condemnation.
A prije svega, braæo moja, ne kunite se ni nebom ni zemljom, ni drugom kakvom kletvom; nego neka bude što jest da, i što nije ne, da ne padnete pod sud.
13 Is one of you suffering? Let him pray. Is any one in good spirits? Let him sing a psalm.
Muèi li se ko meðu vama, neka se moli Bogu; je li ko veseo, neka hvali Boga.
14 Is any one ill? Let him send for the Elders of the Church, and let them pray over him, after anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
Boluje li ko meðu vama, neka dozove starješine crkvene, te neka èitaju molitvu nad njim, i neka ga pomažu uljem u ime Gospodnje.
15 And the prayer of faith will restore the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up to health; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven.
I molitva vjere pomoæi æe bolesniku, i podignuæe ga Gospod; i ako je grijehe uèinio, oprostiæe mu se.
16 Therefore confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. The heartfelt supplication of a righteous man exerts a mighty influence.
Ispovijedajte dakle jedan drugome grijehe, i molite se Bogu jedan za drugoga, da ozdravljate; jer neprestana molitva pravednoga mnogo može pomoæi.
17 Elijah was a man with a nature similar to ours, and he earnestly prayed that there might be no rain: and no rain fell on the land for three years and six months.
Ilija bješe èovjek smrtan kao i mi, i pomoli se Bogu da ne bude dažda, i ne udari dažd na zemlji za tri godine i šest mjeseci.
18 Again he prayed, and the sky gave rain and the land yielded its crops.
I opet se pomoli i nebo dade dažd, i zemlja iznese rod svoj.
19 My brethren, if one of you strays from the truth and some one brings him back,
Braæo! ako ko od vas zaðe s puta istine, i obrati ga ko,
20 let him know that he who brings a sinner back from his evil ways will save the man's soul from death and throw a veil over a multitude of sins.
Neka zna da æe onaj koji obrati grješnika s krivoga puta njegova spasti dušu od smrti, i pokriti mnoštvo grijeha.
