Jakovo 4
1 Hanu ni mi wambila chizi ha mulilwisa ni ku kanana mukati kenu? Kena kuti mubonse mu suna ku tenda zintu zibi zi mu suna ahulu ku tenda zintu zisa tabisi ba mwenu?
What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Isn’t it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?
2 Mu shukelwa zintu, mi kamu zi wani. Mwi ihaya bantu ba mi bindisa kuti muzi wane, mi kamu wani zimu suna. Mu lwa ni kukanana. Kono ka muwani zimu suni kakuti ka mu kumbili kwe Ireeza.
You crave, yet do not have, so you commit murder, so You covet, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 Niha mu kumbila kamu wani kakuti mukumbililo wenu kana mu lotu, kakuti muzi tendise mu mu sunina.
You ask, yet do not receive, because you ask for a wrong purpose – to spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 Inwe basangu! Ka mwizi kuti ku suna nze ikanda ku lwisa Ireeza? Ni hakuba bulyo yo suna kuba mulikani wa ze inkanda uli tenda chila cha Simwine.
Unfaithful people! Don’t you know that to be friends with the world means to be at enmity with God? Therefore whoever chooses to be friends with the world makes himself an enemy to God.
5 Kapa muwana kuti ka kwina ibaka Ireeza haba wamba bulyo “Luhuho lwaba biki kwetu luhala lwina ifufa ikando?
Do you suppose scripture means nothing when it says, ‘Envy results from the longings of the spirit which God has implanted within you?’
6 Kono Simwine utu ha chisemo, mi iñolo liti, “Ireeza u kanina bali kumusa, kono uha chisemo ku bali bika hansi.”
But he gives us greater grace; and that is why it says, – ‘God opposes the haughty, but gives grace to the humble.’
7 Mi mulitule kwa Simwine. Mu tande satani, mi kazwe kwenu.
Therefore submit to God. Stand up to the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Mwize hafuhi ni Simwine, mi keze hafuhi nenwe. Mujoloze mayanza, inwe mahedeni, mi mujoloze inkulo zenu, inwe mwina mihupulo yobele.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Make your hands clean, you sinners; and your hearts pure, you vacillators!
9 Mu likalilwe, mulile, mi mubokolole! Mu leke ku seka kwenu ku sanduke chililo mi ku sanga kube maswabi.
Grieve, mourn, and lament! Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your happiness to gloom!
10 Mulikokobeze habusu bwe Ireeza, mi kami nyamune hewulu.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Kanzi muwambi zibi ku ba mwenu, bakwangu. Muntu yo wamba zibi kwa mwakwe kapa kuatula mu kwako ha wamba chibi hamulao u atula mulao. Heba no atula mulao, kena umu tendi wa mulao, kono umuatuli.
Do not disparage one another, friends. The person who disparages others, or passes judgment on them, disparages the Law and passes judgment on the Law. But, if you pass judgment on the Law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.
12 Hesi yenke njo ha mulao mi njo atula. Nji yenke yo haza ni kushinya. Njinwe bani, inwe mu atula ba mu bambene nabo?
There is only one lawgiver and judge – he who has the power both to save and to destroy. So then who are you to pass judgment on your neighbor?
13 Hanu, mutekeleze, inwe mu wamba kuti “Sunu kapa Izona kantu yende ku muleñeni, mu ka wuze mi muka tende iñambekelo.”
Listen to me, you who say ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town and spend a year there, doing business and making money,’
14 Njeni wizi chete ni chitendahale izona, mi buhalo bwenu njo buhi? Mihe mu mume wiza kenako inche ni ku mana.
yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a puff of smoke that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 Kambe, muwamba kuti, “Heba Ireeza na suna, heba ni tuchi hala katu tende ichi kapa china”.
Instead you should say ‘If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.’
16 Kono hanu muli tundula ka mitendo yi mu suna ku tenda. Zonse za kuli tundula bubi.
But as it is, you are boasting presumptuously! All such boasting is wicked.
17 Muntu yense wizi ku tenda chilotu kono ka chi tendi, kwa li chibe.
The person, then, who knows what is right but fails to do it – that is sin in them.
