| | Darby | | |
| 1 | Ne soyez pas beaucoup de docteurs, mes frères, sachant que nous en recevrons un jugement plus sévère; | My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation. | Be not many [of you] teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive heavier judgment. |
| 2 | car nous faillissons tous à plusieurs égards. Si quelqu'un ne faillit pas en paroles, celui-là est un homme parfait, capable de tenir aussi tout le corps en bride. | For in many things we offend all. If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body. | For in many things we all stumble. If any stumbleth not in word, the same is a perfect man, able to bridle the whole body also. |
| 3 | Voici, nous mettons les mors des chevaux dans leurs bouches, pour qu'ils nous obéissent, et nous dirigeons çà et là leur corps tout entier. | Behold, we put bits in the horses' mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body. | Now if we put the horses` bridles into their mouths that they may obey us, we turn about their whole body also. |
| 4 | Voici, les navires aussi, qui sont si grands et qui sont poussés par des vents violents, sont dirigés çà et là par un très-petit gouvernail, où que ce soit que le veuille l'impulsion de celui qui les gouverne. | Behold also the ships, which though they be so great, and are driven of fierce winds, yet are they turned about with a very small helm, whithersoever the governor listeth. | Behold, the ships also, though they are so great and are driven by rough winds, are yet turned about by a very small rudder, whither the impulse of the steersman willeth. |
| 5 | Ainsi aussi la langue est un petit membre et elle se vante de grandes choses. Voici, un petit feu, quelle grande forêt allume-t-il! | Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! | So the tongue also is a little member, and boasteth great things. Behold, how much wood is kindled by how small a fire! |
| 6 | Et la langue est un feu. La langue, un monde d'iniquité, est établie parmi nos membres; c'est elle qui souille tout le corps, et enflamme tout le cours de la nature, et est enflammée par la géhenne. | And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell. | And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell. |
| 7 | Car toute espèce de bêtes sauvages et d'oiseaux, de reptiles et d'animaux marins, se dompte et à été domptée par l'espèce humaine; | For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: | For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind. |
| 8 | mais pour la langue, aucun des hommes ne peut la dompter: c'est un mal désordonné, plein d'un venin mortel. | But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison. | But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison. |
| 9 | Par elle nous bénissons le Seigneur et Père, et par elle nous maudissons les hommes faits à la ressemblance de Dieu; | Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. | Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God: |
| 10 | de la même bouche procède la bénédiction et la malédiction. Mes frères, il ne devrait pas en être ainsi. | Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. | out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. |
| 11 | Une fontaine fait-elle jaillir par une même ouverture le doux et l'amer? | Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? | Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter? |
| 12 | Mes frères, un figuier peut-il produire des olives, ou une vigne, des figues? De l'eau salée ne peut pas non plus faire de l'eau douce. | Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh. | Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet. |
| 13 | Qui est sage et intelligent parmi vous? Que par une bonne conduite il montre ses oeuvres avec la douceur de la sagesse. | Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. | Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom. |
| 14 | Mais si vous avez une jalousie amère et un esprit de querelle dans vos coeurs, ne vous glorifiez pas et ne mentez pas contre la vérité. | But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. | But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. |
| 15 | Ce n'est pas là la sagesse qui descend d'en haut, mais une sagesse terrestre, animale, diabolique. | This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. | This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. |
| 16 | Car où il y a de la jalousie et un esprit de querelle, là il y a du désordre et toute espèce de mauvaises actions. | For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. | For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. |
| 17 | Mais la sagesse d'en haut est premièrement pure, ensuite paisible, modérée, traitable, pleine de miséricorde et de bons fruits, sans partialité, sans hypocrisie. | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. | But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy. |
| 18 | Or le fruit de la justice, dans la paix, se sème pour ceux qui procurent la paix. | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace. | And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace. |
