Lettera di Giacomo (يعقوب) 4

SMITH VAN DYKE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
1 من اين الحروب والخصومات بينكم أليست من هنا من لذّاتكم المحاربة في اعضائكم.	1 Where do wars and contentions among you come from? Is it not from this: from your own desires, which battle within your members?
2 تشتهون ولستم تمتلكون. تقتلون وتحسدون ولستم تقدرون ان تنالوا. تخاصمون وتحاربون ولستم تمتلكون لانكم لا تطلبون.	2 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 تطلبون ولستم تأخذون لانكم تطلبون رديّا لكي تنفقوا في لذّاتكم	3 You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
4 ايها الزناة والزواني أما تعلمون ان محبة العالم عداوة للّه. فمن اراد ان يكون محبا للعالم فقد صار عدوا للّه.	4 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 ام تظنون ان الكتاب يقول باطلا. الروح الذي حل فينا يشتاق الى الحسد.	5 Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”
6 ولكنه يعطي نعمة اعظم. لذلك يقول يقاوم الله المستكبرين واما المتواضعون فيعطيهم نعمة.	6 But he gives a greater grace. Therefore he says: “God resists the arrogant, but he gives grace to the humble.”
7 فاخضعوا للّه. قاوموا ابليس فيهرب منكم.	7 Therefore, be subject to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 اقتربوا الى الله فيقترب اليكم. نقوا ايديكم ايها الخطاة وطهروا قلوبكم يا ذوي الرأيين.	8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners! And purify your hearts, you duplicitous souls!
9 اكتئبوا ونوحوا وابكوا. ليتحول ضحككم الى نوح وفرحكم الى غم.	9 Be afflicted: mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned into mourning, and your gladness into sorrow.
10 اتضعوا قدام الرب فيرفعكم	10 Be humbled in the sight of the Lord, and he will exalt you.
11 لا يذم بعضكم بعضا ايها الاخوة. الذي يذم اخاه ويدين اخاه يذم الناموس ويدين الناموس. وان كنت تدين الناموس فلست عاملا بالناموس بل ديانا له.	11 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 واحد هو واضع الناموس القادر ان يخلّص ويهلك. فمن انت يا من تدين غيرك	12 There is one lawgiver and one judge. He is able to destroy, and he is able to set free.
13 هلم الآن ايها القائلون نذهب اليوم او غدا الى هذه المدينة او تلك وهناك نصرف سنة واحدة ونتجر ونربح.	13 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 انتم الذين لا تعرفون امر الغد. لانه ما هي حياتكم. انها بخار يظهر قليلا ثم يضمحل.	14 consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.
15 عوض ان تقولوا ان شاء الرب وعشنا نفعل هذا او ذاك.	15 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 واما الآن فانكم تفتخرون في تعظمكم. كل افتخار مثل هذا رديء.	16 But now you exult in your arrogance. All such exultation is wicked.
17 فمن يعرف ان يعمل حسنا ولا يعمل فذلك خطية له	17 Therefore, he who knows that he ought to do a good thing, and does not do it, for him it is a sin.