James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings amongst you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Hirik’aia o aly naho fifandierañe ama’ areoo? Tsy o hasiji’ areoo hao ty mitrobo añ’ova ao?
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.
Mikirañe f’ie tsy manañe, mamono; mihàñe fe tsy mahazo, naho mifandietse vaho mialy, f’ie tsy manañe amy te tsy mihalaly,
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Mihalaly fe kanao tsy tendreke, vàlañe i hatakey, ie ho nirite’areo an-kadrao avao.
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.
Ty karapilo! Tsy apota’ areo hao te falaiñañe an’ Andrianañahare ty firañetañe ami’ty voatse toy? Aa le ze te ho rañe’ ty tane toy manao ty vata’e ho rafelahin’ Añahare.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Hera atao’ areo te tsy aman-tali’e ty itsara’ i sokitse masiñey t’y hoe: Mañiriñe am-pihàñañe ty Arofo mimoneñe aman-tikañe ao.
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Fe itolora’e fañisoham-bey. Izay ty anoe’e ty hoe: Zeharen’ Añahare ty mpiebotsebotse, fe tolora’e arofo ty mpirèke.
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Aa le miambanea aman’ Añahare. Liero i mpañìnjey, le hibioñe.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Harineo t’i Andrianañahare, le hitotofa’e. Mandiova fitàñe ry mpanan-kakeo vaho mañefera arofo ry mpanao sadrò-lahiagao.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Mihontoha, mandalà naho mangololoiha; afotero ho firovetañe ty fitohafa’ areo vaho halonjerañe ty haeha’ areo.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Miambanea aolo’ i Talè le hongahe’e.
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.
O ry longo, ko mifamokafoka. Ty mañìnje Hake naho mizaka Hake ro mañìnje rahalahy Vaho mizaka longo; Aa kanao maniñe Hake irehe, le tsy mpañambeñe Hake, fa mpizaka.
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Raike t’i Mpanolotse Hake, Ie ty maharombake naho maharotsake. Ia v’iheo te hizaka ondaty?
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.”
Hete! ie manao ty hoe: Ke anito, he hamaray, le hionjoñe mb’an-drova an-koe añe zahay, ho tambatse añe taoñe raike hanao takinake vaho hanontom-bara.
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.
Fe tsy apota’ areo te inoñe ty ho fiai’ areo te hamaray, ie toe zono miboak’ aniany vaho mimiañ’ añe.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Fe hàmake te hanoe’o ty hoe: Naho satri’ i Talè, te ho velon-jahay le hanao zao naho zao.
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
F’ie miroharoha am-pirengevohañe henaneo, toe raty o fisengeañeo.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Le aman-kakeo ze mahafohiñe ty soa hanoe’e fe tsy anoe’e.
