James 5
1 Go, now, you rich! Weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on [you];
O rich men, howl and weep for the miseries which are coming upon you.
2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
Your riches are corrupt and stink, and your vestments are eaten of the moth,
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!
and your gold and your silver rusteth, and the rust of them is for a witness against you, and is to eat your flesh. You have gathered fire for you for 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;
Lo, the hire of the labourers who have reaped your lands, which you have refused, clamoureth, and the cry of the harvests to the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth hath ascended.
5 you lived in luxury on the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
For you have lived daintily on the earth, and have been wanton, and have nourished your bodies, as for the day of slaughter.
6 you condemned—you murdered the righteous; he does not resist you.
You have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted 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;
BUT you, my brethren, prolong your spirit until the coming of the Lord; as the husbandman who expecteth the precious fruits of his lands, and prolongeth his spirit for them, until he receive the rain the early and the latter;
8 you also be patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the LORD has drawn near;
so also you, prolong your spirit, and your hearts confirm; for the coming of our Lord draweth nigh.
9 do not murmur against one another, brothers, that you may not be condemned; behold, the Judge has stood before the door.
Groan not one against another, my brethren, that you be not judged; for, behold, the Judge standeth before the door.
10 Brothers, [as] an example of the suffering of evil and of patience, take the prophets who spoke in the Name of the LORD;
The example of the prophets take to you, my brethren, to prolong your spirits in your afflictions, them who have spoken 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.
For, behold, we give blessedness to them who have endured. You have heard of the patience of Iob, and the end which the Lord wrought for him you have seen; because that merciful is the Lord and compassionate.
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 before every thing, my brethren, swear not; by heaven nor by earth, nor with any other oath; but let your word be Yes, yes, and No, no, that you be not bound under condemnation.
13 Does anyone suffer evil among you? Let him pray; is anyone of good cheer? Let him sing psalms;
And if any of you be in affliction, let him pray; and if he rejoice, let him sing;
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,
and if he be sick, let him call for the presbyters of the church, and they will pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of our 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 make whole him who was sick, and our Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they 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;
But confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that you may be healed. For great is the power of that prayer which the righteous prayeth.
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;
Elia also was a man of suffering, as we; and he prayed that the rain should not fall upon the earth, and it fell not (for) three years and six months.
18 and again he prayed, and the sky gave rain, and the land brought forth her fruit.
And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth gave her fruits.
19 Brothers, if anyone among you may go astray from the truth, and anyone may turn him back,
my brethren, if any of you shall err from the way of truth, and one shall convert him from his error,
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 turneth a sinner from the error of his way, saveth his soul from death, and hideth the multitude of his sins.
