Jakobe 4

1 Se se dirang dikomano le dintwa mo gare ga lona ke eng? A ga se ka ntlha ya dikeletso tse di bosula tse di lwang mo ditokololong tsa lona.

Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?

2 Lo batla se lo senang naso, jalo lo a bolaya go nna naso. Lo eletsa se ba bangwe ba nang naso, mme ga lo kgone go nna naso, jalo lo simolola ntwa go se tsaya mo go bone. Mme le fa go ntse jalo lebaka la gore lo seka lwa nna le se lo se batlang ke ka ntlha ya gore ga lo se kope mo Modimong.

You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.

3 Mme le fa lo kopa ga lo se fiwe gonne maikaelelo otlhe a lona ga a a siama, lo batla fela se se tlaa lo nayang boitumelo.

You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.

4 Lo tshwana le mosadi yo o nyetsweng yo o sa ikanyegeng yo o ratang baba ba monna wa gagwe. A ga lo lemoge gore go nna botsalano le baba ba Modimo, ebong dithato tse di bosula tsa lefatshe leno, go lo dira baba ba Modimo? Ke bua gape ka re fa maikaelelo a lona e le go itumela mo dithatong tse di bosula tsa lefatshe leno, le le sa bolokwang, ga lo kake gape lwa nna ditsala tsa Modimo.

You adulterers! Do you not know that the friendship of this world is hostile to God? Therefore, whoever has chosen to be a friend of this world has been made into an enemy of God.

5 Kgotsa lo akanya gore lokwalo lo raya eng fa lo re Mowa O O Boitshepo, o Modimo o o agisitseng mo go rona, o re disitse ka lefufa le le bonolo.

Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”

6 Mme o re naya nonofo ya go tlhabana le dikeletso tsotlhe tse di bosula tse di ntseng jaana. Jaaka Lokwalo lo re, Modimo o naya ba ba ingotlang nonofo, mme o kgatlhanong le ba ba ikgodisang le ba ba mabela.

But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”

7 Ke gone ineeleng mo Modimong ka boingotlo. Tlhabanang le diabolo mme o tlaa lo tshaba.

Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

8 Mme fa lo atamela mo Modimong, le One o tlaa lo atamela. Tlhapang diatla tsa lona, baleofi ke lona lo bo lo letle dipelo tsa lona di tlale ka Modimo fela go di ntlafatsa le gore di ikanyege mo go One.

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!

9 Hutsafalang lo lele ka ntlha ya dilo tse di sa siamang tse lo di dirileng. A go nne boikotlhao le bohutsana jwa boammaaruri. A go nne bohutsana mo boemong jwa setshego, le go sa itumeleng mo boemong jwa boitumelo.

Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.

10 Ke gone e tlaa reng fa lo ikutlwa lo se ba sepe fa pele ga Morena, o tlaa lo tsholeletsa kwa godimo a lo kgothatsa a bo a lo thusa.

Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.

11 Se tshwaaneng diphoso lwa ba lwa buana bosula bakaulengwe ba ba rategang. Fa lo dira jalo, lo tlaa bo lo tlhabana le molao wa Modimo o o reng lo ratane, lo o supa o sa siama. Mme tiro ya lona ga se go akanya gore a molao o o siame kgotsa ga o a siama, fa e se go o obamela fela.

Brothers, do not choose to slander one another. Whoever slanders his brother, or whoever judges his brother, slanders the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

12 Yo o dirileng molao ke ene fela a ka atlholang sentle mo gare ga rona. Ke ene fela o ka atlholang go re boloka kgotsa go re nyeletsa. Jalo lo na le tshwanelo efe go sekisa kgotsa go bona ba bangwe diphoso?

There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.

13 Bonang, lona batho ba lo reng, “Gompieno kgotsa ka moso re tlaa ya kwa motsing wa bolebe, re nna teng koo ngwaga, mme re simolole teng madirelo a papadi.”

But who are you to judge your neighbor? Consider this, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go into that city, and certainly we will spend a year there, and we will do business, and we will make our profit,”

14 Lo itse jang se se tlaa lo diragalelang ka moso? Gonne boleele jwa matshelo a lona ga bo tlhomamisege fela jaaka mouwane wa mo mosong, o bonala jaanong jaana; mme e re ka lobakanyana o bo o nyeletse.

consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.

15 Se lo tshwanetseng go se bua ke se, “Fa Morena a rata, re tlaa tshela re bo re dira se kgotsa sele.”

For what is your life? It is a mist that appears for a brief time, and afterwards will vanish away. So what you ought to say is: “If the Lord wills,” or, “If we live,” we will do this or that.

16 E seng jalo lo tlaa bo lo ikgantsha ka maano a e leng a lona, mme go itshepa mo go ntseng jaana ga go itumedise Modimo.

But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.

17 Gakologelwang gape gore, go itse se se molemo se se tshwanetseng go dirwa, mme se bo se sa dirwe, ke boleo.

Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.