याकूब 4

1 तिमीहरूका माझमा झगडा र विवाद कहाँबाट आउँछ? के त्यो तिमीहरूका सदस्यहरूका बिचमा सङ्घर्ष ल्याउने तिमीहरूका अभिलाषाहरूबाट आउँदैन र?

Now I will tell you why you are fighting among yourselves and quarreling with each other [RHQ]. It is [RHQ] because each of you wants to do evil things [PRS]. You keep on wanting to do things that are not [what God wants you to do].

2 तिमीहरू इच्छा गर्दछौ, र तिमीहरूसँग हुँदैन । तिमीहरू हत्या गर्दछौ र लालच गर्दर्छौ, र तिमीहरू प्राप्‍त गर्न सक्षम हुँदैनौ । तिमीहरू लड्दछौ र झगडा गर्दछौ । तिमीहरूसँग छैन किनभने तिमीहरू माग्दैनौ ।

There are things that you [very much] desire to have, but you do not get [those things, so] you [want to] kill [HYP] [those who hinder you from getting them]. You desire what [other people have], but you are unable to get [what you desire, so] you quarrel and fight [with one another] [HYP]. You do not have [what you desire] because you do not ask [God for it].

3 तिमीहरू माग्दछौ र पाउँदैनौ किनभने तिमीहरूले आफ्ना अभिलाषाको निम्ति प्रयोग गर्न सकियोस् भनेर खराब नियतले माग्दछौ ।

[And even when] you do ask [him], he does not give you [what you ask for] because you are asking for the wrong reason. [You are asking for things] in order that you may use them just to (enjoy yourselves/make yourselves happy).

4 तिमी व्‍यभिचारीहरू हो! संसारसितको मित्रता परमेश्‍वरको विरुद्धमा भएको शत्रुता हो भनी के तिमीहरूलाई थाहा छैन? त्यसकारण, जसले संसारको मित्र हुने इच्छा गर्दछ, उसले आफैँलाई परमेश्‍वरको शत्रु बनाउँछ ।

[Like] a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, you [are being unfaithful to God and not obeying him any more] [MET]. Those who are behaving as evil people do [MTY] (OR, Those who love [the evil pleasures of] this world) are hostile toward God. Perhaps you do not realize that [RHQ]. So those who decide to act as evil people do [MTY] become enemies of God.

5 वा धर्मशास्‍त्रले, “उहाँले हामीमा बास गर्न लगाउनुभएका आत्मा अत्यन्तै डाही हुनुभएको छ” भनेर व्यर्थमा भन्दछ भनी के तिमीहरू ठान्दछौ?

(Surely you remember that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he eagerly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only!/Do you think that it is for no reason that [God told us in] the Scriptures that he strongly desires that his Spirit, who lives in us, will help us to love [God] only?) [RHQ] God has a reason for desiring that.

6 तर परमेश्‍वरले अझ बढी अनुग्रह दिनुहुन्छ, यसैकारण धर्मशास्‍त्रले भन्दछ, “परमेश्‍वरले अभिमानीहरूको विरोध गर्नुहुन्छ, तर नम्रहरूलाई अनुग्रह दिनुहुन्छ ।”

[It is because] he is kind [to us and he] wants very much to help us. That is why (someone said/[King Solomon] wrote) [in the Scriptures], “God opposes those who are proud, but he helps those who are humble.”

7 त्यसकारण, परमेश्‍वरमा आफैँलाई समर्पण गर । शैतानको विरोध गर, र त्यो तिमीहरूबाट भाग्‍नेछ ।

So submit yourselves to God. (Resist the devil/Refuse to do what the devil wants), and [as a result] he will run away from you.

8 परमेश्‍वरको नजिक आओ, र उहाँ तिमीहरूको नजिक आउनुहुनेछ । ए पापीहरू हो, तिमीहरूका हात सफा पार, र ए दोमनकाहरू हो, तिमीहरूका हृदय शुद्ध पार ।

Come near [spiritually] to God, and [as a result] he will come near to you. You who are sinners, stop doing what is wrong, and do only what is good [SYN, MET]. You who cannot decide [whether you will] ([commit yourselves to God/obey God completely]), stop thinking wrong thoughts, and think only pure thoughts [MTY].

9 दुःखी होओ; विलाप गर; र रोओ! तिमीहरूका हाँसो दुःखमा र तिमीहरूको आनन्द निराशामा परिणत होस् ।

Be sorrowful and weep/mourn [DOU] [because of the wrong things that you have done]. Do not laugh [DOU], ([enjoying only what you selfishly/enjoying only what you yourselves]) [desire]. Instead, be sad [because you have done what is wrong].

10 प्रभुको सामु तिमीहरू आफैँलाई विनम्र तुल्याओ, र उहाँले तिमीहरूलाई माथि उठाउनुहुनेछ ।

Humble yourselves before the Lord, and [as a result] he will honor you.

11 भाइहरू हो, एक अर्काको विरुद्धमा नबोल । कुनै एक जना भाइको विरुद्धमा बोल्ने वा आफ्नो भाइको न्याय गर्ने व्यक्‍तिले व्यवस्थाको विरुद्धमा बोल्दछ र व्यवस्थाको न्याय गर्दछ । यदि तिमीहरू व्यवस्थाको न्याय गर्दछौ भने, तिमीहरू व्यवस्थालाई पालन गर्नेहरू हुँदैनौ, तर न्यायकर्ता पो हुन्छौ ।

My fellow believers, stop saying evil things about one another, [because] those who say something evil about a fellow believer and [are therefore] condemning [one who is like] a brother [to them] are really speaking against the law [that God gave us to obey]. [In this law, God commanded] [MTY] [us to love others], and those who say evil things about fellow believers, [it is as though] they are saying that we do not have to do what [God] commanded. If you [(sg)] say that you do not have to do what God commanded, you [(sg)] are not obeying God’s law. Instead, you [(sg)] are claiming that you [have the authority] to condemn [others].

12 व्यवस्था दिने र न्यायकर्ता एक जना मात्र हुनुहुन्छ । बचाउन र नाश गर्न सक्‍नुहुने उहाँ मात्र एक हुनुहुन्छ । आफ्नो छिमेकीको इन्साफ गर्ने तिमीहरू को हौ?

[But in fact], there is only one who [has the authority to] tell [people] what is right to do and to condemn [them, and that is God]. He alone is able to save [people] or to destroy people. [So], (you [(sg)] certainly have no right to decide how God should punish other people./who are you to decide how God should punish other people?) [RHQ]

13 अब सुन, तिमीहरू जसले, “आज वा भोलि हामी सहरभित्र प्रवेश गर्नेछौँ, र त्यहाँ एक वर्ष बिताउनेछौँ र व्यापार गरेर पैसा कमाउनेछौँ” भनेर भन्छौ ।

[Some of you] are [arrogantly] saying, “Today or tomorrow we will go to a certain city. We will spend a year there and we will buy and sell things and earn a lot of money.” Now, you listen to me!

14 भोलि के हुनेछ, र तिम्रो जीवन कस्तो हुनेछ भन्‍ने कुरा कसलाई थाहा छ? किनकि तिमीहरू त तुवाँलो हौ जुन केही समय देखा पर्छ र त्यसपछि हराइहाल्छ ।

[You should not talk like that, because] you do not know what will happen tomorrow, and you do not know [how long] you will live! Your life [is short] [MET], [like] a mist that appears for a short time and then disappears.

15 यसको साटो तिमीहरूले यस्तो भन्‍नुपर्ने हो, “यदि परमेश्‍वरले इच्छा गर्नुभयो भने, हामी जिउनेछौँ र यो वा त्यो गर्नेछौँ ।”

Instead of [what you are saying], you should say, “If the Lord wills/desires, we will live and do this or that.”

16 तर अहिले तिमीहरू आफ्ना अभिमानी योजनाहरूका विषयमा शेखी गरिरहेका छौ । यस्ता सबै शेखी खराब हुन् ।

But what you are doing is boasting about all the things that you arrogantly [plan to do]. Your boasting like that is evil.

17 त्यसकारण, जसले भलाइ गर्न जानेर पनि भलाइ गर्दैन भने त्यो त्यसको निम्ति पाप हुन्छ ।

So if anyone knows the right thing that he should do, [but] he does not do it, he is sinning.