James 5:1-5 ▼

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;