ヤコブの手紙 5
1 第五項 種々の勧告。 偖も富める人々よ、汝等が身に到來すべき禍の為に叫び歎け。
Come now, you rich, howl as you weep over your distresses that are coming upon you!
2 汝等の富は腐敗し、汝等の衣服は蠧まれ、
Your wealth has decayed and your clothes have become moth-eaten.
3 汝等の金銀は銹びたり。斯て其銹は汝等に證據と成て、火の如くに汝等の肉を食まん、汝等は末の日に對して怒を貯へたるなり。
Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire—you stored it up for the last days.
4 看よ、汝等が欺きて、汝等の土地を刈取りし作人に與へざりし賃金は叫ぶ、彼等の叫は萬軍の主の耳に入れり。
Look, the wages of the workers who cut your fields, that were unjustly held back by you, cry out, and the loud cries of the reapers have entered the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
5 汝等は地上に在りて歓樂し、身を放蕩に委ね、殺害の日に當りても心を満足せしめ、
You have lived on the earth in self-indulgence and luxury, you fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 義人を罪に定めて之を殺ししも、彼は汝等に抵抗せざりき。
You condemned, you murdered the righteous—he offers you no resistance.
7 然れば兄弟等よ、主の降臨まで忍耐せよ、看よや農夫が地の尊き果を待ちて、春秋の雨を受くるまで忍耐するを。
Therefore, brothers, be patient until the coming of the Lord. Consider, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it until it receives the early and late rain.
8 然れば汝等も忍耐して心を堅うせよ、蓋主の降臨は近きに在り。
You also be patient. Keep your hearts firm, because the coming of the Lord has approached.
9 兄弟等よ、汝等審判せられざらん為に、相怨む事勿れ、看よ審判者は門前に立ち給ふ。
Do not groan against one another, brothers, lest you be judged. Look, the Judge is standing at your doors!
10 兄弟等よ、汝等主の御名によりて語りし預言者等を以て、苦痛と忍耐との模範とせよ。
Brothers, take as an example the patient bearing of hardship and the steadfastness of the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 我等が忍耐したる人々を福なりとするを思へ、汝等曾てヨブの忍耐を聞き、又終に主の為し給ひし事を見たり。即ち主は慈悲深く在して、憫を垂れ給ふ者なり。
Indeed we count as blessed those who endure—you have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the final outcome given by the Lord, that He is very compassionate and merciful.
12 我兄弟等よ、汝等第一に、或は天、或は地、或は他の何物を以ても誓ふ事勿れ、唯然りは然り、否は否と云へ、之審判に罹らざらん為なり。
But above all, my brothers, do not swear, either by heaven or by earth or any other oath. Let your “Yes” be “Yes”, and your “No”, “No”, lest you fall into pretense.
13 汝等の中に憂ふる者あらんか、其人は祈るべきなり。喜ぶ者あらんか、其人は聖詩を謳ふべきなり。
Is anyone among you suffering hardship? Let him pray. Is anyone cheerful? Let him sing praise.
14 汝等の中に病める者あらんか、其人は教會の長老等を喚ぶべく、彼等は主の御名によりて之に注油し、之が上に祈るべし。
Is anyone among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the congregation, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord.
15 斯て信仰の祈は病者を救ひ、主之を引立て給ひ、若罪あらば赦さるべきなり。
And the prayer of faith will deliver the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he has committed sin, it will be forgiven him.
16 然れば互ひに己が罪を告白して、互の為に祈れ、是汝等の醫されん為なり。義人の篤き祈は大いなる効力あり。
Confess your transgressions to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous one, being operative, is very powerful.
17 エリアは我等と同様の人なりしも、雨の地上に降らざらん事を切に祈りしかば、降らざる事三年六箇月なりき。
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly for it not to rain; and it did not rain on the land for three years and six months.
18 斯て再び祈りしかば、天は雨を與へ地は果を與へたりき。
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain and the earth produced its fruit.
19 我兄弟等よ、若汝等の中に眞理を過てる者あり、人ありて之を立歸らしめんか、
Brothers, if anyone among you should wander away from the truth, and someone should turn him back,
20 罪人を其道の迷より立歸らしめたる者は、其魂を死より救ひ、多くの罪を覆ふべしと識るべきなり。
let him know that the one who turns a sinner back from the error of his way will deliver a soul from death and will remove from sight a multitude of sins.
