Yaqobeppe 4
1 Inte garsan diza oolaynne ooshay awape yidee? Inte wozinan diza amotethafe dendida oola gidenee?
Where do wars and fights among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that wage war among your members?
2 Inte amottista shin demekista. Inte asi wodhistanne kehi amotista shin demana danda7ekista. Inte inte garisan ooyetiza gishanne ooletiza gish qasse wosontta gish intes imettena.
You desire but do not have. You murder and are jealous but cannot obtain what you want. You fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 Inte inte asho ufaysanaas iitta qofan wosiza gish wosidaysa inte ekekista.
You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 Inteno laymatizayto alamera siiqetethi Xoossara morketeth gididaysa ereketii? Hessa gish hayssa alamezara siiqitethi koyzay wurikka Xoossas morke.
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Woykko gesha maxaafa gidon “nunan izi ayssiida ayanay nu ziaysa gidana mala daro amottees” gizaysi intes coo mela gidayssa milatize?
Or do you think that the Scripture speaks in vain? The spirit that dwells in us desires to the point of envy,
6 Gido attin izi ba kiiyateth nuus gujji immees. Maxafaykka “Xoossi ootoranchatara eqettees, ashikistas qase ba kiiyateth immees” giday hessasikko.
but God gives greater grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Hessa gish intena Xoossas harisiite. Dabuloosara eqitite, izi intefe baqatana.
Submit yourselves therefore to God, but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Xoossako shiiqqite izikka intekko shiiqqana. Inteno nagaranchato! inte inte kushe geeshshite, inte nam77u qofan qaxiizayto, inte inte wozina geeshshite.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Darsi qoppite; muyagiite; yekiite. Inte michay yehon; ufaysay qasse qadhetethan siimo.
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into gloom.
10 Goda sinththan inte intena kawushite qasse izi intena dhooqu dhooqu histtana.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Ta ishato inte inte garisan issay issay motoopite ba isha motizadeynne ba isha bolla piridizadey woga bolla iitta hasa7esinne woga bolla piridees. Ne woga bolla pirdizade attin woga naagizade gidakka.
Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. He who speaks evil against a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. Now if yoʋ judge the law, yoʋ are not a doer of the law but a judge.
12 Woga wothidadeynne pirdizadey issade xalalakko. Izikka dhaysanaasinne ashanaas danda7izadekko. Gido attin neni ne lagge bolla pirdizadey oone?
There is only one lawgiver and judge—he who is able to save and destroy. But who are yoʋ to judge another?
13 Inte hachchchi woykko wontto hano ha katamayo woykko hiino he katamayo nu baana, biidi hen izin issi laythth utananne zal77i wodhisana gizayto ane haa siyte.
Come now, you who say, “Today and tomorrow let us go to such and such a city, spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
14 Wonto hananayssa inte erekista. Inte shemppoy iza azee? Inteni guutha wode ayfes bettidi dhayiza haththa penta malakko.
You do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? It is a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes away.
15 Hassa gaanappe “Goda shene gidikonne nu paxxa dikko, hessakka hayssaka oothana” gaanas intes bessees.
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, let us live and do this or that.”
16 Ha7i gidiko inte otoretethan ceqetista. Hessa mala oothoretethi wurikka iitta.
But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.
17 Hessa gish loo7o gidizayssa oothanas besizaysa erishe oothonttades nagara gidana.
So whoever knows the right thing to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.
