James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Ooshshinne oli hintte giddo awuppe yii? Entti yey hintte asatethaa haaranaw olettiya hintte asho amuwaappe gidenneyye?
2 You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
Hintte amotteeta, shin demmeketa; hessa gisho, wodheeta. Minthi koyeeta, shin demmanaw dandda7ekketa; hessa gisho, ooyetteetanne oletteeta. Hintte Xoossaa woossonna gisho koyabaa demmeketa.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Hintte woosseta, shin demmeketa. Hintte asho amuwaa polanaw wobbe ogen woossiya gisho demmeketa.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility towards God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Hinttenoo, laymateyssato! Ha alamiya dosey Xoossara morkke gideyssa erekketii? Ha alamiyara dabbotanaw koyey oonikka Xoossaara morkke.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Geeshsha Maxaafay, “Xoossay nunan daana mela oothida Ayyaanay, nuuni iyaw buzo gidana mela amottees” gidayssa coo gidabaa daanii?
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Shin Geeshsha Maxaafay, “Xoossay otoranchchota ixxees, shin banttana kawushsheyssatas maarotethaa immees” yaagiya gisho, Xoossay maarotethaa darssidi immees.
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Hessa gisho, Xoossaas haarettite; Xalahiyara eqettite; I hinttefe haakkana.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Xoossaakko shiiqite; I hintteko shiiqana. Hinttenoo, nagaranchchoto, hintte kushiya meecettite; nam77u qofi de7eyssato, hintte wozanaa geeshshite.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Kayottite, yeekkitenne afuxite. Hintte miichchay yeehon, hintte ufayssay azzanon laameto.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Godaa sinthan hinttenatethaa kawushshite; hinttena dhoqqu dhoqqu oothana.
11 Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
Ta ishato, issoy issuwa zigiroppite. Ba ishaa zigireynne iya bolla pirddey higge zigireesinne higge bolla pirddees. Neeni higge bolla pirddiko higge bolla pirddeyssa gidaasappe attin higge poleyssa gidakka.
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Higge immeynne pirddey Xoossaa xalaala. Ashshanawunne dhayssanaw dandda7ey iya. Yaatin, ne asa bolla pirddey neeni oonee?
13 Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
Hintte, “Nuuni hachchi woykko wontto ya katamaa woykko ha katamaa baana; yan laythi uttana; zal77idi wodhisana” yaageyssato, si7ite.
14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapour that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Wontto aybi hananeekko hintte erekketa. Hintte de7oy waananekko erey oonee? Hintte guutha wode benttidi dhayiya akka mela.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Hessa aggidi, “Goday giikko nuuni daana; hayssa woykko hessa oothana” yaaganaw bessees.
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Shin hintte ha77i otortteetanne ceeqetteeta. Hessa mela ceeqo ubbay iita.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Hessa gisho, lo77obaa oothanaw erishe oothonna uraas hessi nagara.
