yākūbaḥ 4
1 yuṣmākaṁ madhye samarā raṇaśca kuta utpadyante? yuṣmadaṅgaśibirāśritābhyaḥ sukhecchābhyaḥ kiṁ notpadyante?
Where do the wars and disputes among you come from? Is it not precisely from your pleasures, the ones at war in your members?
2 yūyaṁ vāñchatha kintu nāpnutha, yūyaṁ narahatyām īrṣyāñca kurutha kintu kṛtārthā bhavituṁ na śaknutha, yūyaṁ yudhyatha raṇaṁ kurutha ca kintvaprāptāstiṣṭhatha, yato hetoḥ prārthanāṁ na kurutha|
You crave and do not have; you murder and covet and are not able to obtain; you fight and war. You do not have because you do not ask.
3 yūyaṁ prārthayadhve kintu na labhadhve yato hetoḥ svasukhabhogeṣu vyayārthaṁ ku prārthayadhve|
You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so that you may lavish it on your pleasures.
4 he vyabhicāriṇo vyabhicāriṇyaśca, saṁsārasya yat maitryaṁ tad īśvarasya śātravamiti yūyaṁ kiṁ na jānītha? ata eva yaḥ kaścit saṁsārasya mitraṁ bhavitum abhilaṣati sa eveśvarasya śatru rbhavati|
Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? So whoever may want to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5 yūyaṁ kiṁ manyadhve? śāstrasya vākyaṁ kiṁ phalahīnaṁ bhavet? asmadantarvāsī ya ātmā sa vā kim īrṣyārthaṁ prema karoti?
Or do you suppose that the Scripture says in vain that the Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously?
6 tannahi kintu sa pratulaṁ varaṁ vitarati tasmād uktamāste yathā, ātmābhimānalokānāṁ vipakṣo bhavatīśvaraḥ| kintu tenaiva namrebhyaḥ prasādād dīyate varaḥ||
But He gives greater grace; therefore He says: “God resists proud ones, but gives grace to humble ones.”
7 ataeva yūyam īśvarasya vaśyā bhavata śayatānaṁ saṁrundha tena sa yuṣmattaḥ palāyiṣyate|
Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
8 īśvarasya samīpavarttino bhavata tena sa yuṣmākaṁ samīpavarttī bhaviṣyati| he pāpinaḥ, yūyaṁ svakarān pariṣkurudhvaṁ| he dvimanolokāḥ, yūyaṁ svāntaḥkaraṇāni śucīni kurudhvaṁ|
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Sinners, cleanse your hands! Double-minded, purify your hearts!
9 yūyam udvijadhvaṁ śocata vilapata ca, yuṣmākaṁ hāsaḥ śokāya, ānandaśca kātaratāyai parivarttetāṁ|
Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your joy into dejection.
10 prabhoḥ samakṣaṁ namrā bhavata tasmāt sa yuṣmān uccīkariṣyati|
Humble yourself before the Lord and He will exalt you.
11 he bhrātaraḥ, yūyaṁ parasparaṁ mā dūṣayata| yaḥ kaścid bhrātaraṁ dūṣayati bhrātu rvicārañca karoti sa vyavasthāṁ dūṣayati vyavasthāyāśca vicāraṁ karoti| tvaṁ yadi vyavasthāyā vicāraṁ karoṣi tarhi vyavasthāpālayitā na bhavasi kintu vicārayitā bhavasi|
Brothers, do not speak evil of one another. Because the one speaking against a brother and judging his brother speaks against a law and judges a law. So if you judge a law you are not a law-doer but a judge.
12 advitīyo vyavasthāpako vicārayitā ca sa evāste yo rakṣituṁ nāśayituñca pārayati| kintu kastvaṁ yat parasya vicāraṁ karoṣi?
The Lawgiver and Judge is One, the one who is able to save and to destroy. So who are you (sg) to be judging someone who is different?
13 adya śvo vā vayam amukanagaraṁ gatvā tatra varṣamekaṁ yāpayanto vāṇijyaṁ kariṣyāmaḥ lābhaṁ prāpsyāmaśceti kathāṁ bhāṣamāṇā yūyam idānīṁ śṛṇuta|
Come now, you who say, “Today and tomorrow let us travel to that certain city, spend a year there, do business and make a profit;”
14 śvaḥ kiṁ ghaṭiṣyate tad yūyaṁ na jānītha yato jīvanaṁ vo bhavet kīdṛk tattu bāṣpasvarūpakaṁ, kṣaṇamātraṁ bhaved dṛśyaṁ lupyate ca tataḥ paraṁ|
whereas you do not know anything about the morrow. For what is our life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time but then vanishes away.
15 tadanuktvā yuṣmākam idaṁ kathanīyaṁ prabhoricchāto vayaṁ yadi jīvāmastarhyetat karmma tat karmma vā kariṣyāma iti|
Instead you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and do this or that.”
16 kintvidānīṁ yūyaṁ garvvavākyaiḥ ślāghanaṁ kurudhve tādṛśaṁ sarvvaṁ ślāghanaṁ kutsitameva|
But now you boast in your arrogant pretensions. All such boasting is malignant.
17 ato yaḥ kaścit satkarmma karttaṁ viditvā tanna karoti tasya pāpaṁ jāyate|
Therefore, to the one knowing to do good and not doing it, to him it is sin.
