James 1:2-3

This is the first of hopefully many what I have chosen to call reverse translations; I mean to take passages from many a text, this one is from the Bible, the others may or may not be - it just so happens that biblical transaltion is important, and dear to me, as it were.
The Goal here is not to propose 'real' translations, but to allow these ideas to spring off the page, to become more applicable. I've done some translation work and I can tell you it is something to be taken seriously (and 'prayerfully' where the scriptures are concerned) - but just as anything taken too seriously, translation can remain faithful to the original text and still lose something. I mean to put meaning back into certain passages, certain books.
I've done a lot of reverse engineering in my life when it comes to math questions or labs - so I figured why not do the same with translation? We have accepted originals which are considered "infallible" - and we work from them. good, but not try the other way 'round? Why not try rendering something in another langauge which contains the same ideas and could be rendered more or less the same way in the orginial language? I admit, I often go far beyond this, it would seem, but there's more to translation and language than just definitions. Meaning is bigger than that, and context is also crucial. Here I mean to post things that are contextually relevant to me.

Today's selection is from the book of James (specifically verses 2 and 3 of the first chapter). I did this one a long time ago, but it's stuck with me and been the inspiration for this sort of blog, so it will as such be the first post. Enjoy, comment, critique, think.

Original in Greek with interlinear translation can be found here:
http://www.scripture4all.org/OnlineInterlinear/NTpdf/jam1.pdf

One accepted translation in English (from the NIV):
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

A proposed RT:
Feel ripped off, (bro,) if you go through your day without being tempted or facing trials - for a day without trials is a day without growth, growth towards what we're supposed to be, and you may as well have stayed in bed.