James 4
1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
Kisa ki sous kont ak konfli pami nou yo? Èske se pa plezi nou yo k ap fè lagè nan manm kò nou yo?
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.
Nou anvi e nou pa genyen, donk nou touye moun. Nou anvi e nou pa kab twouve, donk nou goumen e fè kont ak lòt yo. Nou pa genyen paske nou pa mande.
3 You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Nou mande e nou pa resevwa, paske nou mande avèk anbisyon ki pa pwòp yo, pou nou kab pase li nan plezi nou yo.
4 You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
Nou menm, moun adiltè yo, èske nou pa konprann ke amitye avèk mond lan se rayisman anvè Bondye? Konsa, nenpòt moun ki vle zanmi ak mond lan fè tèt li lènmi ak Bondye.
5 Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
Oubyen, èske nou panse ke Lekriti sen an pale san rezon: “Li jalou pou Lespri a ke Li te fè rete nan nou an?”
6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
Men Li bay yon pi gwo gras. Konsa, li di: “Bondye opoze a ògeye yo, men Li fè gras a moun ki enb yo.”
7 Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Konsa soumèt nou a Bondye. Reziste a dyab la e li va sove ale de nou.
8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
Vin pre Bondye e Li va vin pre nou. Netwaye men nou, nou menm pechè; e pirifye kè nou, nou menm, moun ak doub panse.
9 Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
Se pou nou vin mizerab; lamante e kriye. Kite ri nou yo vin tounen lamantasyon, e lajwa nou yo vin tounen tristès.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
Desann nou nan prezans Bondye a, e Li menm, Li va fè nou leve.
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.
Pa pale kont youn lòt, frè m yo. Sila ki pale kont yon frè oubyen jije frè li a, pale kont lalwa e jije lalwa. Men si nou jije lalwa, olye nou akonpli lalwa a, nou jije li.
12 Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
Gen yon sèl ki bay Lalwa; se sèl Li ki kapab sove e detwi. Men nou menm, ki moun nou ye pou jije vwazen nou an?
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.”
Vini koulye a, nou menm, ki di: “Jodi a oswa demen, nou va ale nan tèl vil, e pase yon ane la, angaje nou nan biznis pou fè pwofi.”
14 Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
Malgre, nou pa konnen kijan lavi nou va ye demen. Paske ki sa lavi ou ye? Li se sèlman yon vapè ki parèt pou yon ti moman, e answit, vin disparèt.
15 For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
Olye de sa, nou ta dwe di: “Si Bondye vle, nou va viv, e nou va osi fè sesi oubyen sela.”
16 But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
Menmjan sa ye a, nou ògeye nan awogans nou. Tout ògèy konsa, se mechanste.
17 To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
Alò a sila ki konnen bon bagay pou li fè a, men pa fè l, a li menm, se peche.
