James 5:1-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

5 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl in your miseries, which shall come upon you.

² Your riches are corrupted: and your garments are motheaten.

³ Your gold and silver is cankered: and the rust of them shall be for a testimony against you, and shall eat your flesh like fire. You have stored up to yourselves wrath against the last days.

⁴ Behold the hire of the labourers, who have reaped down your fields, which by fraud has been kept back by you, crieth: and the cry of them hath entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

⁵ You have feasted upon earth: and in riotousness you have nourished your hearts, in the day of slaughter.

⁶ You have condemned and put to death the Just One, and he resisted you not.

⁷ Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth: patiently bearing till he receive the early and latter rain.

⁸ Be you therefore also patient, and strengthen your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.