James 5:1-9 ▼

1 Come now, ye rich, weep mourning over your calamities which are coming on you.

2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments have become moth-eaten:

3 your gold and your silver are cankered; and their rust shall be for a witness against you, and eat your flesh like fire. You laid up treasures in the last days.

4 Behold, the wages of the laborers having reaped your fields, which is fraudulently kept back by you, is crying out: and the voices of the reapers have come into the ears of the Lord of hosts.

5 Ye flourished upon the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts in the day of slaughter.

6 You condemned, you murdered the righteous; nothing antagonizes you.

7 Therefore, O brethren, suffer long, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer receives the precious fruit of the earth, waiting for it, until he may receive the former and latter rain:

8 you also suffer long; establish your hearts; because the coming of the Lord is nigh.

9 Do not complain against one another, brethren, in order that you may not be judged: behold, the judge stands before the doors.