James 4
1 Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
Angʼo makelo goruok gi dhawo e kindu? Donge gia kuom gombou makedo matek e chunyu?
2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;
Udwaro ni ubed gi gik moko, to ok uyudgi. Uneko kendo ugombo gige ji, to ok unyal yudo gik mudwarogo. Udhawo kendo ugoru e kindu ngʼato gi ngʼato. Ok uyud gik mudwaro nikech ok ukwa Nyasaye.
3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].
To kata ka ukwayo Nyasaye, to ok uyud gik mukwayo nikech ukwayo gi paro maricho mondo utimgo dwarou uwegi.
4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.
Un joma terore! Donge ungʼeyo ni hero piny en chayo Nyasaye? Ngʼato angʼata moyiero e chunye mondo obed osiep piny doko jasik Nyasaye.
5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
Koso uparo ni muma wacho kayiem ni chuny Nyasaye moketo mondo odag eiwa nigi nyiego mager.
6 and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, 'God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?'
To kata kamano omiyowa ngʼwono maduongʼ moloyo, mano emomiyo Muma wacho niya, “Nyasaye osin gi josunga, to ochiwo ngʼwono ne joma muol.”
7 be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;
Omiyo bolreuru e bwo Loch Nyasaye. Kweduru Satan, eka noringu.
8 draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!
Suduru but Nyasaye, eka nosud butu. Luokuru lweteu, un jorichogi, kendo pwodhuru chunyu, un joma nigi paro ariyogi.
9 be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
Owinjore ubed gikuyo kendo uywagi, ka ugoyo nduru. Nyiero munyierogo onego olokre ywak, kendo mor mumorgo onego olokre kuyo.
10 be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.
Bolreuru e nyim Ruoth Nyasaye eka obiro otingʼou malo.
11 Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;
Owetena, kik uketh nying joweteu. Ngʼato angʼata ma wuoyo marach kuom nyawadgi kata mangʼado ni nyawadgi bura nyaka ngʼe ni Chik ema owuoyo kuome marach kendo ongʼadone bura. To ngʼat mangʼado ni Chik bura ok orito Chik nikech osedoko ngʼama ngʼadone bura.
12 one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?
Wuon Chik ma bende en Jangʼad bura en achiel kende. En ema onyalo reso kata nego ngʼato. In to in ngʼa mondo ingʼad ni nyawadu bura?
13 Go, now, ye who are saying, 'To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;'
Chikuru itu mondo uwinja, un joma wacho niya, “Kawuono kata kiny wanadhi e dala ni, kata e dala cha, mondo wadag kuno higa achiel, mondo walok ohala kuno eka walos pesa.”
14 who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;
Ere kaka uwuoyo kamano to ukia gima kiny notimre. Uparo ni ngimau en angʼo? Ngimau chalo mana ka ongʼwengʼo mineno sa matin kende to bangʼe lal nono.
15 instead of your saying, 'If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;'
Kar wacho kamano to onego uwach mana niya, “Ka Ruoth oyie to wabiro bedo mangima mi watim ma kata macha.”
16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;
Un to usungoru kendo upakoru! Ngʼeuru ni sunga ma kamano en richo.
17 to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.
Kuom mano, ngʼato ka ngʼata mongʼeyo gima ber monego otim, to ok otimo, doko jaricho.
