James 4:9
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.In other versions
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
ASV
Be troubled, with sorrow and weeping; let your laughing be turned to sorrow and your joy to grief.
BBE
Be wretched, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and [your] joy to heaviness.
DBY
Lament, mourn, and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
WEB
be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;
YLT
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
ENG
Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
WBT
Grieve, mourn, and weep. Turn your laughter to mourning, and your joy to gloom.
BSB
In context
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
9Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness.
10Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.
11Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.