James 4

NET

9 Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter into mourning and your joy into despair.


Darby

9 Be wretchedD9206, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.


Darby Bible Notes

wretched - 'Have it done,' not 'be doing it;' the aorist tense. All the imperatives (ten) from vers. 7 to 10 are in the aorist.


KJV

9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.