Santiago 4
1 ¿Cuál es la causa de las guerras y peleas entre ustedes? ¿No son sus pasiones lo que está en lucha interna en sus cuerpos?
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 Desean, y no obtienes su deseo, matán; están llenos de envidia y no puedes obtener su deseo, entonces estás peleando y se hacen la guerra; ustedes no obtienen su deseo, porque no lo piden.
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 Hacen su petición pero no lo obtienen, porque lo piden. Incorrectamente, por egoísmo para su propio placer.
[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 ¡Oh, almas adúlteras! ¿no saben que ser amigos de este mundo es ser enemigos de Dios? Todo hombre que desee ser amigo de este mundo se odia a sí mismo.
[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 O piensan que es en vano lo que dicen las Sagradas Escrituras, el Espíritu que Dios puso en nuestros corazones nos anhela celosamente?
(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 Pero él da más gracia. Por eso dice, Dios está en contra de los hombres orgullosos, pero él da gracia a aquellos que se humillan ante él.
[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 Sométanse a Dios; resistan al diablo y él huirá de ustedes.
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 Acérquense a Dios y él se acercará a ustedes. Limpien sus manos, pecadores. Purifiquen sus corazones, ustedes que quieren amar al mundo y a Dios a la vez.
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 Aflíjanse con tristeza y llanto; dejen que su risa se convierta en dolor y su alegría en dolor.
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 Humíllense ante los ojos del Señor y serán exaltados por él.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and [as a result] he will honor you.
11 No digan mal el uno contra el otro, mis hermanos. El que dice mal contra su hermano o juzga a su hermano, dice mal contra la ley y juzga la ley; y al juzgar la ley, no eres un hacedor de la ley, sino un juez.
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 Hay un solo juez y legislador, incluso el que tiene el poder de la salvación y la destrucción; pero ¿quién eres tú para ser el juez de tu vecino?
[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 Qué tonto es decir: Hoy o mañana iremos a esta ciudad, y estaremos allí por un año y haremos negocios allí y obtendremos riquezas:
[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 Cuando no están seguros de lo que sucederá mañana. Que es con su vida? Es una niebla, que se ve por un tiempo y luego se va.
[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 Pero lo correcto sería decir: Si es el placer del Señor y si todavía estamos vivos, haremos esto y lo otro.
Instead of [what you are saying], you should say, “If the Lord wills/desires, we will live and do this or that.”
16 Pero ahora se regocijan en su orgullo, y todo ese regocijo es malo.
But what you are doing is boasting about all the things that you arrogantly [plan to do]. Your boasting like that is evil.
17 El hombre que tiene conocimiento de cómo hacer el bien y no lo hace, para él es pecado.
So if anyone knows the right thing that he should do, [but] he does not do it, he is sinning.
