James 5
1 Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you:
COME now, ye rich men, let your tears run down, howling over your miseries which are coming upon you.
2 Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, —
Your wealth is corrupted, and your robes are moth-eaten.
3 Your gold and silver, have rusted away, and, their rust, shall be, witness against you, and shall eat your flesh, as fire! Ye have laid up treasure in days of extremity: —
Your gold and silver is cankered with rust; and the rust upon them is a testimony against you, and shall eat into your flesh as fire. Ye have heaped up treasures in the last days.
4 Lo, the wage of the workers who have out down your fields—that which hath been kept back, by you, is crying out; and, the outcries of them who reaped, into the ears of the Lord of hosts, have entered:
Behold, the wages of the workmen who have mowed down your fields, which is kept back by you from them, crieth out: and the loud moans of the reapers are entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter;
Ye have gormandized upon the earth, and lived in every luxury: ye have pampered your hearts, as in a day of feasting on the victim slain.
6 Ye sentenced—ye murdered the Righteous one! Is he not arraying himself against you?
Ye have falsely condemned, ye have murdered the just man; nor doth he resist you.
7 Be patient, therefore, brethren, until the Presence of the Lord: —Lo! the husbandman, awaiteth the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it, until it receive the early and the latter rain:
Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See, the husbandman waits for the precious fruit of the earth, in patient expectation for it, till it receives the former and the latter rain.
8 Be, ye also, patient, Stablish your hearts, because, the Presence of the Lord, hath drawn near.
Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is at hand.
9 Be not sighing, brethren, one against another, lest ye be judged, —Lo! the Judge, before the doors, is standing.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest be ye condemned: lo! the judge standeth at the gates.
10 An example, take ye, brethren, of distress and patience, —the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
My brethren, take a pattern for suffering affliction, and patience from the prophets, who have spoken to you in the name of the Lord.
11 Lo! we pronounce them happy who have endured; —Of the endurance of Job, ye have heard, and, the end of the Lord, have ye seen, —that, of much tender affection, is the Lord, and full of compassion,
Behold, we esteem those blessed who patiently endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; for the Lord is full of bowels of mercy, and tenderly compassionate.
12 But, before all things, my brethren, do not swear, —either by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your Yea be yea, and your Nay nay, —lest, under judgment, ye fall.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, nor by earth, nor by any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your no, no; that ye fall not under condemnation.
13 In distress, is any among you? Let him pray; Cheerful, is any? Let him strike the strings;
Is any man among you under afflictions? let him pray. Is any man happy in mind? let him sing psalms.
14 Sick, is any among you? Let him call unto him the elders of the assembly, and let them pray for him, anointing him with oil in the name [of the Lord]; —
Is any man sick among you? let him send for the presbyters 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, shall save the exhausted one, and the Lord will raise him up, and, if he have committed, sins, it shall be forgiven him.
and the prayer of faith shall recover the sick man, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
16 Be openly confessing, therefore, one to another, your sins, and be praying in each other’s behalf, —that ye may be healed. Much availeth, the supplication of a righteous man, when it is energised:
Confess your offences one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed. The energetic prayer of a righteous man is mightily prevalent.
17 Elijah, was, a man, affected like us; and he earnestly prayed that there might be no moisture, and there was no moisture on the land, for three years and six months, —
Elias was a man of like feelings with us, and he prayed fervently that it should not rain; and there fell no rain on the earth during three years and six months.
18 And, again, he prayed, and, the heaven, gave, rain, and, the land, shot up her fruit.
And he prayed again, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth shot up its fruit.
19 My brethren! If one among you be led to err from the truth, and one turn him back,
Brethren, if any man among you should have erred from the truth, and one convert him;
20 Be ye taking note—that, he that turneth back a sinner out of the error of his way—will save his soul out of death, and hide a multitude of sins.
let him know, that he that converteth a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will cover a multitude of sins.
