Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. (A)You have heaped up treasure in the last days. Indeed (B)the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and (C)the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of [a]Sabaoth. You have lived on the earth in pleasure and [b]luxury; you have [c]fattened your hearts [d]as in a day of slaughter.

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Footnotes

  1. James 5:4 Lit., in Heb., Hosts
  2. James 5:5 indulgence
  3. James 5:5 Lit. nourished
  4. James 5:5 NU omits as

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