James 5:1-11 ▼

1 Go, now, you rich! Weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on [you];

2 your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten;

3 your gold and silver have rotted, and the rust of them will be to you for a testimony, and will eat your flesh as fire. You have stored up treasure in the last days!

4 Behold, the reward of the workmen cries out, of those who in-gathered your fields, which has been fraudulently kept back by you, and the exclamations of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the LORD of Hosts;

5 you lived in luxury on the earth, and were wanton; you nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter;

6 you condemned—you murdered the righteous; he does not resist you.

7 Be patient, then, brothers, until the coming of the LORD; behold, the farmer expects the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, until he may receive rain—early and latter;

8 you also be patient; establish your hearts, because the coming of the LORD has drawn near;

9 do not murmur against one another, brothers, that you may not be condemned; behold, the Judge has stood before the door.

10 Brothers, [as] an example of the suffering of evil and of patience, take the prophets who spoke in the Name of the LORD;

11 behold, we call those who are enduring blessed; you heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the end from the LORD, that the LORD is very compassionate, and pitying.