¹Dejte torej vi, bogatini, jokajte in javkajte nad bedami, ki vas zadenejo.

¹Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.

²Bogastvo vaše je strohnelo in oblačila vaša so snedli molji.

²Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

³Zlato vaše in srebro je zarjavelo, in njiju rja bode v pričanje zoper vas in bo žrla meso vaše kakor ogenj. Zaklade ste si nabrali v zadnjih dneh!

³Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.

⁴Glejte, plačilo delavcev, ki so poželi polje vaše, pa ste ga jim utrgali, kriči; in vpitje ženjcev je prišlo do ušes Gospoda nad vojskami.

⁴Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies Greek: Sabaoth (for Hebrew: Tze’va’ot) .

⁵V požrešnosti ste na zemlji živeli in razkošnosti; srca svoja ste redili v dan klanja.

⁵You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.

⁶Obsodili, umorili ste pravičnega, ne ustavlja se vam.

⁶You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t resist you.

⁷Bodite torej potrpežljivi, bratje, do prihoda Gospodovega. Glejte, orač pričakuje dragega sadu zemlje, potrpežljiv zanj, dokler ne dobi zgodnjega in poznega dežja.

⁷Be patient therefore, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.

⁸Bodite potrpežljivi tudi vi; pokrepčajte srca svoja, ker prihod Gospodov se je približal.

⁸You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

⁹Ne zdihujte drug zoper drugega, bratje, da ne boste sojeni; glejte, sodnik stoji pred vrati.

⁹Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

¹⁰Za zgled trpljenja in potrpežljivosti vzemite, bratje, proroke, ki so govorili v imenu Gospodovem.

¹⁰Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

¹¹Glejte, blagrujemo tiste, ki so bili stanovitni v trpljenju. O stanovitnosti Jobovi ste čuli in konec Gospodov ste videli; kajti bogat v usmiljenju je Gospod in milosrčen.

¹¹Behold, we call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

¹²Predvsem pa, bratje moji, ne prisegajte, ne pri nebu, ne pri zemlji, ne kake druge prisege; vaš ‚da‘ pa bodi ‚da‘ in ‚ne‘ bodi ‚ne‘, da ne zapadete sodbi.

¹²But above all things, my brothers, don’t swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes,” and your “no,” “no”; so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy. TR reads “under judgment” instead of “into hypocrisy”

¹³Trpi li kdo med vami, naj moli. Je li kdo dobre volje, naj prepeva hvalnice.

¹³Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.

¹⁴Je li kdo bolan med vami, naj pokliče k sebi starejšine cerkve, in molijo naj nad njim ter ga mazilijo z oljem v imenu Gospodovem.

¹⁴Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,

¹⁵In molitev vere bo pomagala bolniku, in Gospod ga ozdravi; in ako je storil grehe, mu bo odpuščeno.

¹⁵and the prayer of faith will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

¹⁶Izpovedujte torej drug drugemu grehe in molite drug za drugega, da ozdravite. Mnogo zmore goreča molitev pravičnega.

¹⁶Confess your offenses to one another, and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.

¹⁷Elija je bil človek, podvržen enakim slabostim kakor mi, in v molitvi je molil, naj ne dežuje, in deževalo ni na zemlji tri leta in šest mesecev.

¹⁷Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.

¹⁸In zopet je molil, in nebo je dalo dežja in zemlja je rodila sad svoj.

¹⁸He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.

¹⁹Bratje moji, ako kdo izmed vas zabrede od resnice in ga kdo nazaj pripelje,vedi, da kdor nazaj pripelje grešnika s krive poti njegove, reši dušo njegovo iz smrti in pokrije množico grehov.

¹⁹Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth, and someone turns him back,

²⁰vedi, da kdor nazaj pripelje grešnika s krive poti njegove, reši dušo njegovo iz smrti in pokrije množico grehov.

²⁰let him know that he who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.