UJakhobe 4
1 Kuyini okubangela ukulwa lengxabano phakathi kwenu na? Kakuveli ezinkanukweni zenu ezilwayo phakathi kwenu na?
Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
2 Lifuna ulutho oluthile, kodwa kalilutholi. Liyabulala njalo lihawukele kodwa kalingeke likuthole lokho elikufunayo. Liyaxabana lilwe. Kalilalutho ngoba kaliceli kuNkulunkulu.
You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
3 Lapho licela, kaliphiwa ngoba licela ngenjongo embi, ukuba lichithe lokho elikuzuzayo enjabulweni yenu.
You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4 Lina zifebe zabantu, kalikwazi yini ukuthi ubungane lomhlaba kuyikuzonda uNkulunkulu na? Umuntu okhetha ukuba ngumngane womhlaba uba yisitha sikaNkulunkulu.
You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 Kumbe licabanga ukuthi umbhalo utsho kungelasizatho ukuthi umoya awenza ukuba uhlale phakathi kwethu ugebela ebukhweleni?
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
6 Kodwa yena usinika umusa owengeziweyo. Yikho-nje umbhalo usithi: “UNkulunkulu umelana labazigqajayo, kodwa abe lomusa kwabathobekileyo.”
But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7 Ngakho-ke, zehliseni kuNkulunkulu. Menqabeleni uSathane, uzalibalekela.
Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Sondelani phansi kukaNkulunkulu laye uzasondela kini. Gezani izandla zenu lina zoni, lihlambulule lezinhliziyo zenu, lina abangqondombili.
Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Dabukani, lilile, likhale. Guqulani ukuhleka kwenu kube yikukhala, kuthi ukuthokoza kwenu kube yikudana.
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Zithobeni phambi kweNkosi, izaliphakamisa.
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 Bazalwane, lingachothozani. Umuntu okhuluma kubi ngomzalwane wakhe, loba amahlulele, ukhuluma kubi ngomthetho awahlulele. Lapho lisahlulela umthetho, kaliwugcini kodwa liyawahlulela.
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and 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 KuloMenzi wemithetho loMahluleli oyedwa kuphela, lowo olamandla okusindisa lokubhubhisa. Kodwa lina lingobani ukuba lahlulele omakhelwane benu na?
Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
13 Lalelani lina elithi, “Lamhla loba kusasa sizakuya kuleli loba kuleliyana idolobho, siqede umnyaka khona, senze imisebenzi sizuze imali.”
Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
14 Kungani ngoba phela kalikwazi okuzakwenzakala kusasa. Ukuphila kwenu kuyini na? Liyinkungu ebonakala okwesikhatshana ibe isinyamalala.
Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
15 Kodwa kumele lithi, “Nxa kuyintando yeNkosi sizaphila senze lokhu loba lokhuyana.”
For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
16 Okwakhathesi liyazincoma lizikhukhumeza. Konke ukuzincoma okunje kubi.
But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
17 Ngakho-ke, loba ngubani okwaziyo okulungileyo okumele akwenze kodwa angakwenzi, wenza isono.
To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
