Jakoba 4
1 Avy aiza ny ady, ary avy aiza ny fifandirana eo aminareo? Tsy izao va no ihaviany, dia ny filanareo izay miady ao anatin’ ny momba ny tenanareo?
Where do conflicts and quarrels among you come from? Do they not come from your passions that war in your members?
2 Mila ianareo, nefa tsy manana ihany; mamono sy mitsiriritra ianareo, nefa tsy mahazo ihany; mifanditra sy miady ianareo; tsy manana ianareo, satria tsy mangataka.
You lust, and do not have. You kill, covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and make war. You do not have, because you do not ask.
3 Mangataka ianareo, nefa tsy mahazo ihany, satria diso fangataka, mba holaninareo amin’ ny filanareo.
You ask, and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
4 Ry mpisintaka mijangajanga, tsy fantatrareo va fa fandrafiana an’ Andriamanitra ny fisakaizana amin’ izao tontolo izao? Koa na iza na iza te-ho sakaizan’ izao tontolo izao, dia fahavalon’ Andriamanitra izy.
You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Ary ataonareo va fa miteny foana ny Soratra Masìna? Ny fanahy, izay nampitoeriny ato anatintsika dia iriny amin’ ny fahasaro-piaro.
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit which he made to dwell in us yearns jealously"?
6 Nefa manome fahasoavana bebe kokoa Izy. Koa hoy izy: “Andriamanitra manohitra ny mpiavonavona, fa manome fahasoavana ho an’ ny manetry tena”.
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.
7 Ka dia maneke an Andriamanitra ianareo; ary manohera ny devoly, dia handositra anareo izy.
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Manatòna an’ Andriamanitra, dia hanatona anareo Izy. Diovy ny tananareo, ry mpanota; ary ataovy madio ny fonareo, ry mpiroa saina.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Oria, sy mitomania, ary midradradradrà; aoka hody fitomaniana ny fihomehezanareo, ary hody fanjoretana ny fifalianareo.
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
10 Manetre tena eo anatrehan’ ny Tompo, dia hanandratra anareo Izy.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Aza mifanaratsy, ry rahalahy. Izay manaratsy rahalahy na mitsara ny rahalahiny dia manaratsy ny lalàna sy mitsara ny lalàna; fa raha mitsara ny lalàna ianao, dia tsy mpankatò ny lalàna, fa mpitsara.
Do not speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother or 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.
12 Iray ihany no Mpanome lalàna sy Mpitsara, dia Ilay mahavonjy sy mahavery; fa iza moa ianao, no mitsara ny namanao?
Only one is the lawgiver and judge, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 He! ianareo izay manao hoe: Anio na ampitso dia hankany Ananona izahay ary hitoetra any herintaona ka hividy sy hivarotra ary hahazo tombom-barotra,
Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow let us go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit."
14 kanefa tsy mahalala ny ho ampitso ianareo. Inona moa ny ainareo? Fa zavona ihany ianareo, izay miseho vetivety, dia levona.
Whereas you do not know what tomorrow will be like. What is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
15 Fa aleo manao izao: Raha sitrapon’ ny Tompo, ka velona izahay, dia hataonay izao na izany.
For you ought to say, "If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that."
16 Fa izao dia mirehareha amin’ ny fahasahianareo ianareo; ratsy ny fireharehana rehetra toy izany.
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
17 Koa izay mahalala hanao soa, nefa tsy manao, dia heloka ho azy izany.
To him therefore who knows to do good, and does not do it, to him it is sin.
