James 5
1 Go, now, you rich! Weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on [you];
Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them will be to you for a testimony, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days!
Your gold and your silver are rusted; and their rust shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye have laid up your treasure in the last days.
4 Behold, the reward of the workmen cries out, of those who in-gathered your fields, which has been fraudulently kept back by you, and the exclamations of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the LORD of Hosts;
Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 you lived in luxury on the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter.
6 you condemned—you murdered the righteous; he does not resist you.
Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one]; he doth not resist you.
7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the coming of the LORD; behold, the farmer expects the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until he may receive rain—early and latter;
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
8 you also be patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the LORD has drawn near;
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 do not murmur against one another, brothers, that you may not be condemned; behold, the Judge has stood before the door.
Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.
10 Brothers, [as] an example of the suffering of evil and of patience, take the prophets who spoke in the Name of the LORD;
Take, brethren, for an example of suffering and of patience, the prophets who spake in the name of the Lord.
11 behold, we call those who are enduring blessed; you heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the end from the LORD, that the LORD is very compassionate, and pitying.
Behold, we call them blessed that endured: ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, how that the Lord is full of pity, and merciful.
12 And before all things, my brothers, do not swear, neither by Heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, but let your “Yes” be yes, and the “No,” no, that you may not fall under judgment.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by the heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay, nay; that ye fall not under judgment.
13 Does anyone suffer evil among you? Let him pray; is anyone of good cheer? Let him sing psalms;
Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.
14 is anyone sick among you? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, having anointed him with oil, in the Name of the LORD,
Is any among you sick? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord:
15 and the prayer of faith will save the distressed one, and the LORD will raise him up, and if he may have committed sins, they will be forgiven to him.
and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.
16 Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that you may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.
17 Elijah was a similar-feeling man as us, and with prayer he prayed—not to rain, and it did not rain on the land three years and six months;
Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.
18 and again he prayed, and the sky gave rain, and the land brought forth her fruit.
And he prayed again; and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth her fruit.
19 Brothers, if anyone among you may go astray from the truth, and anyone may turn him back,
My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;
20 let him know that he who turned back a sinner from the straying of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
