雅各書

第5章

1 來吧[Go to now],你們這些富足人哪,應當哭泣、哀號[howl],因為將有苦難臨到你們身上。

2 你們的財物壞了,衣服也被蟲子咬了。

3 你們的金銀都壞蝕了[cankered];那鏽要控告[be a witness against]你們的不是,又要吃你們的肉,如同火燒。你們在這末後的日子[last days]只知積聚錢財。

4 看哪[Behold],工人給你們割下田稼[reaped down your fields]被你們詐扣[which is of you kept back by fraud]的工錢,這工錢有聲音呼叫;並且那些[them which]收割之人的冤聲已經入了大軍之主的耳了。

5 你們在世上享宴樂[pleasure]好淫逸[been wanton]你們嬌養了心,如在宰殺的日子一樣[ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter]

6 你們定了義人的罪,把他殺害;他也不抵擋你們。

7 所以弟兄們[therefore brethren],你們要忍耐,直到主來。看哪,農夫等候[husbandman waiteth]地裏寶貴的出產,為此長久忍耐[hath long patience for it],直到得了秋雨春雨。

8 你們也當忍耐;堅固你們的心。因為主來的日子近了。

9 弟兄們,不要[not]彼此懷怨[Grudge],免得你們被定罪[ye be condemned];看哪,那審判的[the judge]站在門前了。

10 我的[my]弟兄們,你們要把那先前奉主名說話的眾先知當作能受苦能忍耐的榜樣。

11 看哪[Behold],那忍耐[endure]的人,我們以他們為[count them]有福的。你們聽見過約伯的忍耐,也看見[seen]主給他的結局;明顯主甚是慈悲[very pitiful],大有憐憫[tender mercy]

12 我的弟兄們,最要緊的是不可起誓,不可指著天起誓,也不可指著地起誓,無論何誓都不可起;你們說話,是倒要[but]說是;不是,就說不是;免得你們陷在罪裏[fall into condemnation]

13 你們中間有受了苦[afflicted]的麼?他可以[let]禱告。有喜樂的麼?他可以唱詩歌頌[let him sing psalms]

14 你們中間有病了的麼?他可以[let]請教會的長老來;他們可以為他禱告[pray over him]奉主的名用油抹他[anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord]

15 出於信心的祈禱要救患病的人[the sick],主必叫他起來;他若犯了罪,它們[they]也必蒙饒恕[forgiven]

16 你們[your]要彼此認[faults],互相代求,使你們可以得醫治。義人熱切[fervent]祈禱所發的力量,是大有功效的。

17 以利亞像我們一樣[as we are]順著[subject to]性情的人,他懇切禱告,求不要下雨;雨就三年零六個月之久[by the space of]不下在地上。

18 他又禱告,天就降下雨來,地也生出土產。

19 弟兄們[Brethren]你們若有人偏離真理[if any of you do err from the truth],有人使他歸正[convert]

20 這人該知道,叫一個罪人從走差的[error]路上轉回便是救一個元魂[soul]不死,並且隠藏[hide]許多的罪。

James

Chapter 5

1 O YOU rich men, weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon you!

2 Your riches are destroyed and rotted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

3 Your gold and silver are tarnished, and the rust of them will be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh. The treasures which you have heaped together will be as fire to you for the last days.

4 Behold, the wage of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, that which you have fraudulently kept back, cries: and the cry of the reapers has already entered into the ears of the LORD of sabaoth.

5 For you have had your luxuries on earth and have been greedy; you have fed your bodies as for the day of slaughter.

6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous; and yet he does not resist you.

7 But you, my brethren, be patient, until the coming of the LORD, just as the husbandman waits for the precious crops of his field, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.

8 You be patient also: strengthen your hearts: for the coming of our LORD is at hand.

9 Complain not one against another, my brethren, lest you be condemned: for behold judgment is at hand.

10 My brethren, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the LORD, for an example of patience in your suffering.

11 Behold, we count them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen what the LORD did for him at the end; for the LORD is very merciful and compassionate.

12 But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your words be yes, yes, and no, no; lest you fall under condemnation.

13 If any among you be afflicted, let him pray. If any be merry, let him sing psalms.

14 And if any be sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of our LORD:

15 And the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and our LORD shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man is powerful.

17 Even Elijah, who was a weak man like ourselves, prayed earnestly that it might not rain upon the land, and it did not rain for three years and six months.

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruits.

19 My brethren, if any of you do err from the way of the truth, and some one converts him from his error,

20 Let him know that he who converts a sinner from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall wipe out a multitude of sins.

雅各書

第5章

James

Chapter 5

1 來吧[Go to now],你們這些富足人哪,應當哭泣、哀號[howl],因為將有苦難臨到你們身上。

1 O YOU rich men, weep and howl for the miseries which shall come upon you!

2 你們的財物壞了,衣服也被蟲子咬了。

2 Your riches are destroyed and rotted, and your garments are moth-eaten.

3 你們的金銀都壞蝕了[cankered];那鏽要控告[be a witness against]你們的不是,又要吃你們的肉,如同火燒。你們在這末後的日子[last days]只知積聚錢財。

3 Your gold and silver are tarnished, and the rust of them will be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh. The treasures which you have heaped together will be as fire to you for the last days.

4 看哪[Behold],工人給你們割下田稼[reaped down your fields]被你們詐扣[which is of you kept back by fraud]的工錢,這工錢有聲音呼叫;並且那些[them which]收割之人的冤聲已經入了大軍之主的耳了。

4 Behold, the wage of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, that which you have fraudulently kept back, cries: and the cry of the reapers has already entered into the ears of the LORD of sabaoth.

5 你們在世上享宴樂[pleasure]好淫逸[been wanton]你們嬌養了心,如在宰殺的日子一樣[ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter]

5 For you have had your luxuries on earth and have been greedy; you have fed your bodies as for the day of slaughter.

6 你們定了義人的罪,把他殺害;他也不抵擋你們。

6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous; and yet he does not resist you.

7 所以弟兄們[therefore brethren],你們要忍耐,直到主來。看哪,農夫等候[husbandman waiteth]地裏寶貴的出產,為此長久忍耐[hath long patience for it],直到得了秋雨春雨。

7 But you, my brethren, be patient, until the coming of the LORD, just as the husbandman waits for the precious crops of his field, and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.

8 你們也當忍耐;堅固你們的心。因為主來的日子近了。

8 You be patient also: strengthen your hearts: for the coming of our LORD is at hand.

9 弟兄們,不要[not]彼此懷怨[Grudge],免得你們被定罪[ye be condemned];看哪,那審判的[the judge]站在門前了。

9 Complain not one against another, my brethren, lest you be condemned: for behold judgment is at hand.

10 我的[my]弟兄們,你們要把那先前奉主名說話的眾先知當作能受苦能忍耐的榜樣。

10 My brethren, take the prophets who have spoken in the name of the LORD, for an example of patience in your suffering.

11 看哪[Behold],那忍耐[endure]的人,我們以他們為[count them]有福的。你們聽見過約伯的忍耐,也看見[seen]主給他的結局;明顯主甚是慈悲[very pitiful],大有憐憫[tender mercy]

11 Behold, we count them happy who endure. You have heard of the patience of Job, and you have seen what the LORD did for him at the end; for the LORD is very merciful and compassionate.

12 我的弟兄們,最要緊的是不可起誓,不可指著天起誓,也不可指著地起誓,無論何誓都不可起;你們說話,是倒要[but]說是;不是,就說不是;免得你們陷在罪裏[fall into condemnation]

12 But above all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your words be yes, yes, and no, no; lest you fall under condemnation.

13 你們中間有受了苦[afflicted]的麼?他可以[let]禱告。有喜樂的麼?他可以唱詩歌頌[let him sing psalms]

13 If any among you be afflicted, let him pray. If any be merry, let him sing psalms.

14 你們中間有病了的麼?他可以[let]請教會的長老來;他們可以為他禱告[pray over him]奉主的名用油抹他[anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord]

14 And if any be sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of our LORD:

15 出於信心的祈禱要救患病的人[the sick],主必叫他起來;他若犯了罪,它們[they]也必蒙饒恕[forgiven]

15 And the prayer of faith shall heal the sick, and our LORD shall raise him up; and if he has committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.

16 你們[your]要彼此認[faults],互相代求,使你們可以得醫治。義人熱切[fervent]祈禱所發的力量,是大有功效的。

16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man is powerful.

17 以利亞像我們一樣[as we are]順著[subject to]性情的人,他懇切禱告,求不要下雨;雨就三年零六個月之久[by the space of]不下在地上。

17 Even Elijah, who was a weak man like ourselves, prayed earnestly that it might not rain upon the land, and it did not rain for three years and six months.

18 他又禱告,天就降下雨來,地也生出土產。

18 And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruits.

19 弟兄們[Brethren]你們若有人偏離真理[if any of you do err from the truth],有人使他歸正[convert]

19 My brethren, if any of you do err from the way of the truth, and some one converts him from his error,

20 這人該知道,叫一個罪人從走差的[error]路上轉回便是救一個元魂[soul]不死,並且隠藏[hide]許多的罪。

20 Let him know that he who converts a sinner from the error of his way, shall save his soul from death, and shall wipe out a multitude of sins.