4:1 From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your ta'avah (lust) that war in your members?
4:2 You ta'avah (lust), and have not: you kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: you fight and war, yet you have not, because you ask not.
4:3 You ask, and receive not, because you ask with a wrong motives, that you may consume [it] upon your ta'avah (lust).
4:4 You adulterers and adulteresses, know you not that the friendship of the Olam Hazeh is enmity with Elohim (אלהים)? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the Olam Hazeh is the enemy of Elohim (אלהים).
4:5 Do you think that the Scripture said in vain, The spirit that dwells in us ta'avah (lust) to envy?
4:6 But he gives more grace. Wherefore he said, Elohim (אלהים) resists the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.
4:7 Submit yourselves therefore to Elohim (אלהים). Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
4:8 Draw nigh to Elohim (אלהים), and He will draw nigh to you. Cleanse [your] hands, [you] sinners; and purify [your] hearts, [ye] double minded.
4:9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
4:10 Humble yourselves in the sight of Adonay, and he shall lift you up.
4:11 Speak not evil one of another, achim (Brethren). He that speaketh evil of [his] brother, and judges his achi, speaketh evil of the Torah, and judges the Torah: but if thou judge the Torah, thou art not a doer of the Torah, but a judge.
4:12 There is one establisher of Torah, who is able to save and to destroy: who are you that judges another?
4:13 Go to now, you that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:
4:14 Whereas you know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
4:15 For that you [ought] to say, If Adonay will, we shall live, and do this, or that.
4:16 But now you rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
4:17 Therefore to him that knows to do good, and doeth [it] not, to him it is sin.