James, 4

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

1. Odakle ratovi, odakle borbe meðu vama? Zar ne odavde: od pohota što vojuju u udovima vašim?

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.

2. Žudite, a nemate; ubijate i hlepite, a ne možete postiæi; borite se i ratujete. Nemate jer ne ištete.

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

3. Ištete, a ne primate jer rðavo ištete: da u pohotama svojim potratite.

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.

4. Preljubnici! Ne znate li da je prijateljstvo sa svijetom neprijateljstvo prema Bogu? Tko god dakle hoæe da bude prijatelj svijeta, promeæe se u neprijatelja Božjega.

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

5. Ili mislite da Pismo uzalud veli: Ljubomorno èezne za duhom što ga nastani u nama?

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

6. A daje on i veæu milost. Zato govori: Bog se oholima protivi, a poniznima daje milost.

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

7. Podložite se dakle Bogu! Oduprite se ðavlu i pobjeæi æe od vas!

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

8. Približite se Bogu i on æe se približiti vama! Oèistite ruke, grešnici! Oèistite srca, dvoliènjaci!

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

9. Zakukajte, protužite, proplaèite! Smijeh vaš nek se u plaè obrati i radost u žalost!

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

10. Ponizite se pred Gospodinom i on æe vas uzvisiti!

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.

11. Ne ogovarajte, braæo, jedni druge! Tko ogovara ili sudi brata svoga, ogovara i sudi Zakon. A sudiš li Zakon, nisi vršitelj nego sudac Zakona.

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

12. Jedan je Zakonodavac i Sudac: Onaj koji može spasiti i pogubiti. A tko si ti da sudiš bližnjega?

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,”

13. De sada, vi što govorite: "Danas ili sutra otiæi æemo u taj i taj grad, provesti ondje godinu, trgovati i zaraditi",

14. consider that you do not know what will be tomorrow.

14. a ne znate što æe sutra biti. Ta što je vaš život? Dašak ste što se naèas pojavi i zatim nestane!

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.

15. Umjesto da govorite: "Htjedne li Gospodin, živjet æemo i uèiniti ovo ili ono",

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

16. vi se razmeæete svojim hvastanjima! Svako je takvo hvastanje opako.

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

17. Znati dakle dobro èiniti, a ne èiniti - grijeh je.