James 5
1 Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you:
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
2 Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, —
Your riches are corrupted and your garments 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 your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure 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 laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
5 Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter;
You have lived in luxury on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye sentenced—ye murdered the Righteous one! Is he not arraying himself against you?
You have condemned and you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn’t 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, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receives the early and late rain.
8 Be, ye also, patient, Stablish your hearts, because, the Presence of the Lord, hath drawn near.
You also be patient. Establish 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.
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
10 An example, take ye, brethren, of distress and patience, —the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
Take, brothers, for an example of suffering and of perseverance, the prophets who spoke 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 call them blessed who endured. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and have seen the Lord in the outcome, and how the Lord is full of compassion and mercy.
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 brothers, don’t swear—not by heaven, or by the earth, or by any other oath; but let your “yes” be “yes”, and your “no”, “no”, so that you don’t fall into hypocrisy.
13 In distress, is any among you? Let him pray; Cheerful, is any? Let him strike the strings;
Is any among you suffering? Let him pray. Is any cheerful? Let him sing praises.
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 among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, 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 will heal him who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. If he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.
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 sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The insistent prayer of a righteous person is powerfully effective.
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, —
Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it didn’t rain on the earth for three years and six months.
18 And, again, he prayed, and, the heaven, gave, rain, and, the land, shot up her fruit.
He prayed again, and the sky gave rain, and the earth produced its fruit.
19 My brethren! If one among you be led to err from the truth, and one turn him back,
Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
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 who turns a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.
