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1 Weep now, ye rich men, and howl for your miseries which are coming upon you. 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten: 3 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 the se last days. 4 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 have lived upon earth delicately and luxuriously; ye fattened your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have murdered the just one, who resisted you not. 7 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 ye also patient, establish your hearts; for the coming of the Lord is near. 9 Repine not, my brethren, against each other, that ye be not condemned: behold, the judge is at the door. James 5:1-9, Worsley New Testament. Public domain.
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