True

James 4

Ge'ez original · 17 verses · some words can be tapped for a gloss

📖 This chapter exists in 2 other originals — side by side (Greek New Testament, Vulgate)

ℹ️ This corpus has no morphological tagging. Glosses are matched by word form against a dictionary — a match does not prove it is the same word (an inflected form can coincide with another word’s lemma). Verify against the original and a specialist lexicon where precision matters.

⚠️ The Chinese and English alongside are the CUV and the WEB, both translated from the Masoretic Text; they follow a different textual tradition from the Greek and Latin shown here and will disagree in places.

Play chapterRead aloud in the original (synthesised on this site)–:––SpeedDownload mp3

4:1

እምአይቴ ለክሙ ጸብእ ወቀትል አኮኑ እምዝየ እምአፍቅሮ ዝሙት ዘይትገበር ውስተ አንጕዕክሙ።

Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

你們中間的爭戰鬥毆是從哪裏來的呢？不是從你們百體中戰鬥之私慾來的嗎？

4:2

ትፈትዉሂ ወኢትረክቡ ትትቃንኡሂ ወትትቃተሉሂ ወበእንተዝ ኢትክሉ ረኪበ ትትበአሱሂ ወትጻብኡሂ ወኢትረከቡ ዘተኀሥሡ እስመ ኢትስእሉ።

You 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.

你們貪戀，還是得不着；你們殺害嫉妒，又鬥毆爭戰，也不能得。你們得不着，是因為你們不求。

4:3

ትስእሉሂ ወኢይሁቡክሙ እስመ ለእኪት ትስእሉ ለዝሙትክሙ ከመ ተሀቡ።

You ask, and don’t receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.

你們求也得不着，是因為你們妄求，要浪費在你們的宴樂中。

4:4

ኦ ዘማውያን ኢተአምሩኑ ከመ ፍቁሩ ለዝ ዓለም ጸላኢሁ ውእቱ ለእግዚአብሔር እስመ ዘአብደረ ፍቅሮ ለዝ ዓለም ጸላኢሁ ለእግዚአብሔር ይከውን።

You 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.

你們這些淫亂的人哪，豈不知與世俗為友就是與上帝為敵嗎？所以凡想要與世俗為友的，就是與上帝為敵了。

4:5

ወሚመ ይመስለክሙኑ ዘሐሰተ ይብል መጽሐፍ ከመ ተቃንኦ ያፈቅር መንፈስ ዘየኀድር ላዕሌክሙ።

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

你們想經上所說是徒然的嗎？上帝所賜、住在我們裏面的靈，是戀愛至於嫉妒嗎？

4:6

ወባሕቱ አምላክነ እንተ ተዐቢ ሞገሰ ይሁበነ ወበእንተ ዝንቱ ይቤ «እስመ ለዕቡያን ይትሄየዮሙ እግዚአብሔር ወለእለሰ ያቴሕቱ ርእሶሙ ይሁቦሙ ሞገሰ።»

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

但他賜更多的恩典，所以經上說：上帝阻擋驕傲的人，賜恩給謙卑的人。

4:7

ኦሆ በልዎ ለእግዚአብሔር ወእንብየ በልዎ ለጋኔን ወይጐይይ እምኔክሙ።

Be subject therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

故此，你們要順服上帝。務要抵擋魔鬼，魔鬼就必離開你們逃跑了。

4:8

ቅረብዎ ለእግዚአብሔር ወይቀርበክሙ አንጽሑ እደዊክሙ ኃጥኣን ወአንጽሑ ልበክሙ ወእለ ትናፍቁ ግነዩ።

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you double-minded.

你們親近上帝，上帝就必親近你們。有罪的人哪，要潔淨你們的手！心懷二意的人哪，要清潔你們的心！

4:9

ወላሕዉ ወብክዩ ወለሰሓቅክሙኒ ሚጥዎ ውስተ ላሕ ወለትፍሥሕትክሙኒ ውስተ ትካዝ አግብእዎ።

Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.

你們要愁苦、悲哀、哭泣，將喜笑變作悲哀，歡樂變作愁悶。