Iakopus 5
1 A KOMAIL kapwapwa kan, sangesangki o weriwereki, kampamail pan lel ong komail!
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 Omail kapwa kan olar, o man en mot kangalar omail likau kan.
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 Omail kold o silper mirelar, ari, ar mir me pan kadede ong komail, o pan ngar pasang uduk omail due kisiniai. Nan komail nakier kapwa ni imwin ran akan.
Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
4 Komail ngar, pwain en toun dodok, me kop penaer dipisou en sap omail, me komail kulia sanger, kin weriwer; o likwir en saundolung akan lel ong karonga en Kaun Sepaot.
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
5 Komail ipuepuarok kier me sued nin sappa, dender ong, komail kamue matier mongiong omail rasong man wi, me pan kamela.
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 Komail kadeikada o kamela me pung o, a a sota palian komail er.
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.
7 Ari ri ai ko, komail kanongama lao lel en atail Kaun a pan kotin pwarado. Kilang, saumat amen kin auiaui wa mau en sap o, o a kin kanongama lao katau en mas o mur moredier.
Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
8 Komail ari pil kanongama eta, katenge mongiong omail, pwe en atail Kaun a pwarado me korendor.
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Ri ai ko, komail der pilipil en pan moli ki amen amen, pwe komail ender pakadeikada. Kilang, saunkadeik o mi pan wanim.
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
10 Ri ai ko, ni omail kalokolok o kanongama komail alale sang saukop akan, me kokopeki ni mar en Kaun o.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.
11 Kilang, kitail kin kapinga me dadauratar. Komail ronger duen kanongama en Iop, o kilanger imwin Kaun O, pwe Kaun o kin kupukupura o kapunglol kaualap.
Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
12 Ri ai ko, komail kalaka, pwe komail der kaula; der kaukila lang de sappa, o der wia eu song en kaula; a omail sapeng en ei ta, o omail so en so, pwe komail de lodi ong kadeik o.
But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear—not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.
13 Ma amen re omail kamekam, a en kapakap, a ma amen insenemau, a en kauleki psalm.
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
14 Ma amen mi re omail me somau, en ukado saunkoa en momodisou kan, pwe irail en kapakapa kin i, murin ar keie kin i le ni mar en Kaun o.
Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
15 Ari, kapakap poson pan kamaureda me somau o, o Kaun o pan kakelada i, o ma a wiaer dip kai, re pan sapedokalar sang.
and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
16 I me komail en weok pena dip omail o kapakapaki amen amen, pwe komail en kelail la. Kapakap melel en me pung amen kin kareda me toto.
Confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
17 Elias aramas amen dueta kitail, a kapakapaki katau ender moredi, ari solar katau moredi ong sappa ni par silu o saunipong wonu.
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
18 O a kotin pur ong kapakap, nanlang ap kamoredier katau, o sap kapareda wa kan.
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19 Ri ai ko, meamen mi re omail, me salongala ni melel, o amen kasapaledo i,
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
20 I en asa, me kasapaledo me dipan amen sang ni a salongala, a kamaureda sang mela ngen eu, me a pan pwain kidi dip toto.
let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
