James 5
1 O ye rich ones, wail and weep, on account of the miseries that are coming upon you.
Come now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you].
2 For your wealth is spoiled and putrid; and your garments are moth-eaten:
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten.
3 and your gold and your silver have contracted rust; and the rust of them will be testimony against you; and it will eat your flesh. Ye have heaped up a fire to you against the latter days.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have amassed treasure for the last days.
4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped your ground, which ye have wrongfully retained, crieth out; and the clamor of the reapers hath entered the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
5 For ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and revelled, and feasted your bodies as in a day of slaughter.
Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
6 Ye have condemned and slain the just, and none resisted you.
Ye have condemned [and] killed the just; [and] he doth not resist you.
7 But, my brethren, be ye patient until the advent of the Lord; like the husbandman, who waiteth for the precious fruits of his ground, and is patient as to them, until he receive the early and the latter rain.
Be patient, therefore, brethren, to the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receiveth the early and the latter rain.
8 So also be ye patient, and fortify your hearts; for the advent of our Lord draweth nigh
Be ye also patient; establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.
9 Be not querulous one against another, my brethren, lest ye be judged: for lo, the judgment, standeth before the door.
Grudge not one against another, brethren, lest ye be condemned: behold, the judge standeth before the door.
10 For patience in your afflictions, my brethren, take to you the example of the prophets, who spoke in the name of the Lord.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
11 For lo, we ascribe blessedness to them who have borne suffering. Ye have heard of the patience of Job; and ye have seen the result which the Lord wrought for him: for the Lord is merciful and compassionate.
Behold, we count them happy who endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
12 But above all things, my brethren, swear ye not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath: but let your language be yes, yes, and no, no, lest ye become obnoxious to judgment.
But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea, be yea: and [your] nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.
13 And if any of you shall be in affliction, let him pray; or if he be joyous, let him sing psalms.
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing psalms.
14 And if one is sick, let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray for him, and anoint him with oil in the name of our Lord:
Is any sick among you? 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 heal him who is sick, and our Lord will raise him up; and if sins have been committed by him, they will be forgiven him.
And the prayer of faith will save the sick, and the Lord will raise him up; and if he hath committed sins, they will be forgiven him.
16 And confess ye your faults one to another, and pray ye one for another, that ye may be healed; for great is the efficacy of the prayer which a righteous man prayeth.
Confess [your] faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of the righteous man availeth much.
17 Elijah also was a man of sensations like us, and he prayed that rain might not descend upon the earth; and it descended not, for three years and six months.
Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.
18 And again he prayed, and the heavens gave rain, and the earth gave forth its fruits.
And he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth brought forth its fruit.
19 My brethren, if one of you err from the way of truth, and any one convert him from his error;
Brethren, if any one of you should err from the truth, and one should convert him;
20 let him know, that he who turneth the sinner from the error of his way, will resuscitate his soul from death, and will cover the multitude of his sins.
Let him know, that he who converteth a sinner from the error of his way will save a soul from death, and will hide a multitude of sins.
