The Complete Jewish Bible CJB
New International Version NIV
8 Come close to God, and he will come close to you. Clean your hands, sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded people!
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Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9 Wail, mourn, sob! Let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into gloom!
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Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Brothers, stop speaking against each other! Whoever speaks against a brother or judges a brother is speaking against Torah and judging Torah. And if you judge Torah, you are not a doer of what Torah says, but a judge.
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Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
12 There is but one Giver of Torah; he is also the Judge, with the power to deliver and to destroy. Who do you think you are, judging your fellow human being?
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There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you—who are you to judge your neighbor?
13 Now listen, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such-and-such a city, stay there a year trading and make a profit"!
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Now listen, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.”
14 You don't even know if you will be alive tomorrow! For all you are is a mist that appears for a little while and then disappears.
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Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
15 Instead, you ought to say, "If ADONAI wants it to happen, we will live" to do this or that.
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Instead, you ought to say, “If it is the Lord’s will, we will live and do this or that.”
16 But as it is, in your arrogance you boast. All such boasting is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 So then, anyone who knows the right thing to do and fails to do it is committing a sin.
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If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn’t do it, it is sin for them.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
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