James 5
1 O rich men, howl and weep for the miseries which are coming upon you.
Come now! ye wealthy! Weep ye, howling, for your hardships which are coming upon you:
2 Your riches are corrupt and stink, and your vestments are eaten of the moth,
Your wealth, hath rotted, and, your garments, have become, moth-eaten, —
3 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!
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: —
4 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.
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:
5 For you have lived daintily on the earth, and have been wanton, and have nourished your bodies, as for the day of slaughter.
Ye have luxuriated upon the land, and run riot, ye have pampered your hearts in a day of slaughter;
6 You have condemned and have killed the just, and he hath not resisted you.
Ye sentenced—ye murdered the Righteous one! Is he not arraying himself against you?
7 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;
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:
8 so also you, prolong your spirit, and your hearts confirm; for the coming of our Lord draweth nigh.
Be, ye also, patient, Stablish your hearts, because, the Presence of the Lord, hath drawn near.
9 Groan not one against another, my brethren, that you be not judged; for, behold, the Judge standeth before the door.
Be not sighing, brethren, one against another, lest ye be judged, —Lo! the Judge, before the doors, is standing.
10 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.
An example, take ye, brethren, of distress and patience, —the prophets who have spoken in the name of the Lord.
11 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.
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,
12 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.
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.
13 And if any of you be in affliction, let him pray; and if he rejoice, let him sing;
In distress, is any among you? Let him pray; Cheerful, is any? Let him strike the strings;
14 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.
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]; —
15 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.
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.
16 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.
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:
17 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.
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, —
18 And again he prayed, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth gave her fruits.
And, again, he prayed, and, the heaven, gave, rain, and, the land, shot up her fruit.
19 my brethren, if any of you shall err from the way of truth, and one shall convert him from his error,
My brethren! If one among you be led to err from the truth, and one turn him back,
20 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.
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.
