8Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.
9Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
10Make yourselves low in the eyes of the Lord and you will be lifted up by him.
11Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.
12There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?
13How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:
14When you are not certain what will take place tomorrow. What is your life? It is a mist, which is seen for a little time and then is gone.
