Iacobi 4
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
World English Bible
1Unde bella et lites in vobis? nonne hinc: ex concupiscentiis vestris, quæ militant in membris vestris?
1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
2concupiscitis, et non habetis: occiditis, et zelatis: et non potestis adipisci: litigatis, et belligeratis, et non habetis, propter quod non postulatis.
2You lust, and don’t have. You murder and covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.
3Petitis, et non accipitis: eo quod male petatis: ut in concupiscentiis vestris insumatis.
3You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
4Adulteri, nescitis quia amicitia hujus mundi inimica est Dei? quicumque ergo voluerit amicus esse sæculi hujus, inimicus Dei constituitur.
4You adulterers and adulteresses, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hostility toward God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
5An putatis quia inaniter Scriptura dicat: Ad invidiam concupiscit spiritus qui habitat in vobis?
5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?
6majorem autem dat gratiam. Propter quod dicit: Deus superbis resistit, humilibus autem dat gratiam.
6But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
7Subditi ergo estote Deo, resistite autem diabolo, et fugiet a vobis.
7Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Appropinquate Deo, et appropinquabit vobis. Emundate manus, peccatores: et purificate corda, duplices animo.
8Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9Miseri estote, et lugete, et plorate: risus vester in luctum convertatur, et gaudium in mœrorem.
9Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10Humiliamini in conspectu Domini, et exaltabit vos.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11Nolite detrahere alterutrum fratres. Qui detrahit fratri, aut qui judicat fratrem suum, detrahit legi, et judicat legem. Si autem judicas legem, non es factor legis, sed judex.
11Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
12Unus est legislator et judex, qui potest perdere et liberare.
12Only one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge another?
13Tu autem quis es, qui judicas proximum? Ecce nunc qui dicitis: Hodie, aut crastino ibimus in illam civitatem, et faciemus ibi quidem annum, et mercabimur, et lucrum faciemus:
13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
14qui ignoratis quid erit in crastino.
14Yet you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
15Quæ est enim vita vestra? vapor est ad modicum parens, et deinceps exterminabitur; pro eo ut dicatis: Si Dominus voluerit. Et: Si vixerimus, faciemus hoc, aut illud.
15For you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will both live, and do this or that.”
16Nunc autem exsultatis in superbiis vestris. Omnis exsultatio talis, maligna est.
16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
17Scienti igitur bonum facere, et non facienti, peccatum est illi.
17To him therefore who knows to do good and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.
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