James 5
1 Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon [you];
Weep now, ye rich men, and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you.
2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;
Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten:
3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them for a testimony shall be to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye made treasure in the last days!
your gold and silver is cankered, and their rust shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire: ye have been treasuring them up for these last days.
4 lo, the reward of the workmen, of those who in-gathered your fields, which hath been fraudulently kept back by you — doth cry out, and the exclamations of those who did reap into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth have entered;
Behold the hire of the laborers, that reaped your fields, of which they are defrauded by you, crieth out against you: and the complaints of the reapers are come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.
5 ye did live in luxury upon the earth, and were wanton; ye did nourish your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;
Ye have lived upon earth delicately and luxuriously; ye fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
6 ye did condemn — ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.
Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the just one, who resisted you not.
7 Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain — early and latter;
Wait patiently therefore, my brethren, till the coming of the Lord: behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, till he receive the former and the latter rain.
8 be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;
Be ye also patient, establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is near.
9 murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.
Repine not, my brethren, against each other, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge is at the door.
10 An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;
Take for an example of enduring evil and of long-suffering the prophets, who spake in the name of the Lord.
11 lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.
Behold, we account those happy, that are patient. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord, that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful.
12 And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.
But above all, my brethren, swear not; neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor any other oath: but let your yea be yea, and your nay nay; that ye may not fall under condemnation.
13 Doth any one suffer evil among you? let him pray; is any of good cheer? let him sing psalms;
Is any among you afflicted? let him pray: is any chearful? let him sing psalms.
14 is any infirm 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,
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 the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.
and the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord will 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 ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;
Confess your faults one to another, and pray for one another, that ye may be healed: the fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
17 Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray — not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;
Elias was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain, and it rained not upon the land for three years and six months:
18 and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.
and he prayed again, and the heaven gave rain, and the earth put forth its fruit.
19 Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,
Brethren, if any among you be seduced from the truth, and one convert him;
20 let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
let him know that he, who turneth back a sinner from the error of his way, shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
