New King James Version NKJV
New International Version NIV
9 Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom.
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Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
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Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
11 Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law 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 one Lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy. Who are you to judge another?
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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 Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, 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 whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.
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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 the Lord wills, we shall live and 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 now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.
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As it is, you boast in your arrogant schemes. All such boasting is evil.
17 Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is 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.
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